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Quality Cure
How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too
Av David Cutler
Häftad, 2014
227 kr
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In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality …
Missing Persons
A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences
Inbunden, 1998
585 kr
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The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social …
Bridge over the Racial Divide
Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it. The …
Godly Republic
A Centrist Blueprint for America’s Faith-Based Future: A Former White House Official Explodes Ten Polarizing Myths about Religion and Government in America Today
Häftad, 2007
371 kr
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"Do you know if you are going to heaven?" Shortly after being appointed the first Director of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives--the "faith czar"--John J. DiIulio Jr. was asked this question. Suddenly DiIulio, a Catholic Democrat who pioneered programs for inner-city children, was acutely aware …
Bounded Rationality and Politics
Inbunden, 2010
1123 kr
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In "Bounded Rationality and Politics", Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics - the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman's work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer's program on …
Bounded Rationality and Politics
Häftad, 2010
297 kr
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In "Bounded Rationality and Politics", Jonathan Bendor considers two schools of behavioral economics - the first guided by Tversky and Kahneman's work on heuristics and biases, which focuses on the mistakes people make in judgment and choice; the second as described by Gerd Gigerenzer's program on …
Changing Inequality
Häftad, 2011
263 kr
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Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has …
Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
Av Katherine S. Newman, Rourke O'Brien
Häftad, 2011
263 kr
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This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies …
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Av Robert Frank
Häftad, 2013
263 kr
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With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, …
Does Policy Analysis Matter?
Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice
Inbunden, 2017
1156 kr
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How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that …
Does Policy Analysis Matter?
Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2017
263 kr
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How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that …
