Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their failure to recognize the housing bubble or take steps to rein it in before...
Political science
- Author:Baker, DeanSummary:
- Author:Potter, Pitman B.Summary:
Exporting Virtue?critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.
- Author:CLANCY, TomSummary:
Jack Ryan becomes president by sheer accident when the former president, most of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court are bombed out of existence. Ryan must jump in to discover who did it, all the while contending with the threat...
- Author:Cliche, PierreSummary:
La budgétisation publique n'est pas un univers clos accessible aux seuls initiés qui, ce faisant, ont toute latitude pour agir à leur gré. Au contraire, il s'agit d'un monde fortement encadré, traversé par des courants normatifs majeurs...
- Author:Grubbs, Jennifer D.Summary:
Ecoliberation is a captivating and creative glimpse into the world of direct action, animal and earth liberation, and political repression. In stories that are simultaneously heartbreaking, riddled with tension and contradiction, and...
- Author:Lorinc, JohnSummary:
Is the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart...
- Author:Trudeau, G. B.Summary:
Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes is a startling account of the Iraq War, told entirely in the words of those who conceived, planned, advocated and executed it. Presented in chronological order in thematic groups against a...
- Author:Trudeau, G. B.Summary:
Launched as a military blog (or "milblog") by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau in October 2006, The Sandbox is an online forum through which service members in Afghanistan and Iraq share their stories with readers here at home...
- Author:Fried, JosephSummary:
Are Democrats more tolerant than Republicans? Are they more intelligent? Who spends more time at work, and who spends more time watching T.V.? Why are Republicans happier? Who benefits more from Social Security? All of these questions,...
- Author:Anthony ButlerSummary:
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"This fourth edition has 11 new chapters, introduces post-modern ideas and critiques, and integrates multicuralism, feminism, ecology, and other progressive perspectives into the discussion."
- Author:Hartmann, ThomSummary:
Millions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the megawealthy, the multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? According to Air America...
- Author:Harrigan, James R., Davies, AntonySummary:
There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another. And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world.In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies...
- Author:Rosen, JeffreySummary:
An intimate look at the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her own words, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and...
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Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the...
- Author:Macfarlane, EmmettSummary:
The Canadian Senate has long been considered an institutional pariah, viewed as an undemocratic, outmoded warehouse for patronage appointments and mired in spending and workload scandals. After decades of debate about reform, in 2014...
- Author:Ahmad, EqbalSummary:
Edward W. Said once urged the legendary Eqbal Ahmad not to "leave your words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who don't have the...
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This major textbook provides an exciting and authoritative introduction to one of the most important fields of political science. Featuring contributions from key international experts, Comparative Politics examines a wide...
- Author:Paine, ThomasSummary:
This pamphlet, which Paine published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence!