New Books in Public Policy
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Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Ind...
22 min
1527
Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refu...
Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...
59 min
1528
Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Nor...
Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...
43 min
1529
Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
48 min
1530
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's...
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...
42 min
1531
Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Op...
"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...
46 min
1532
Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injusti...
Jill Stauffer argues that survivors of unjust treatment and dehumanization can experience further harm when individuals and institutions will not or cannot hear the survivors’ claims...
59 min
1533
Andra Gillespie, "Race and the Obama Administra...
Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...
23 min
1534
Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdes...
Dr. Christopher Preston argues that what is most startling about the Anthropocene is not only how much impact humans have had, but how much deliberate shaping humans will do...
50 min
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Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday S...
Who is excluded from science?
47 min
1536
Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
24 min
1538
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
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Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race,...
In recent years, the treatment of African Americans by police departments around the country has come under increased public scrutiny...
75 min
1540
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Br...
Alison Schrager is not a typical economist...
36 min
1541
Sarah Reckhow, "Outside Money in School Board E...
Who funds local school board elections?
24 min
1542
John Komlos, "Foundations of Real-World Economi...
Komlos argues that the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake ‘have grown out of the frustrations of those hurt by the economic policies advocated by conventional economists....
32 min
1543
Kevin T. Smiley, "Market Cities, People Cities:...
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city?
40 min
1544
Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
56 min
1545
Ronald J. Schmidt, Jr., "Reading Politics with ...
Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...
42 min
1546
Linda K. Wertheimer, "Faith Ed: Teaching About ...
Teaching about religion in a public school in the United States is rewarding, but very difficult...
57 min
1547
Candis Watts Smith, "Black Politics in Transiti...
Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...
20 min
1548
Tom Wheeler, "From Gutenberg to Google: The His...
Wheeler is a former President of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and former CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association...
56 min
1549
I. Gould Ellen and J. Steil, "The Dream Revisit...
Why do people live where they do? What explains the persistence of residential segregation?
56 min
1550
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min