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  • Theories of Democracy

    A Reader

    par John Locke, Thomas Paine, Alexis Tocqueville, John Rawls, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Winthrop, Horace Mann, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Arthur Bentley, Robert Dahl, Joseph Schumpeter, Anthony Downs, John Dewey, Benjamin Barber, Max Weber, Noberto Bobbio, Michel Foucault, William Connolly, Jurgen Habermas, Mahatma Gandhi, Jean-bertrand Aristide, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Liberal/Democratic Divide, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Phillips, John Stuart Mill, Iris Marion Young, Aung San Suu Kyi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Aristotle, James Madison, Robert Bellah, Chantal Mouffe, Cornel West ...
    Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Stuck in Traffic

    Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion

    par Anthony Downs ...
    Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and waste time, congestion has become an important factor affecting local government policies in many ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • New Visions for Metropolitan America

    par Anthony Downs ...
    In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Neighborhoods and Urban Development

    par Anthony Downs ...
    American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods. Thousands of residents move every year within and among neighborhoods; their flows across a city can radically and quickly alter the character of its neighborhoods. What is behind all this ferment-the decline of one area, the revitalization of another? Can the process be made more rational? Can city neighborhoods be stabilized- ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Urban Decline and the Future of American Cities

    par Katharine L Bradbury, Anthony Downs, Kenneth A. Small ...
    During the past two decades, most large American cities have lost population, yet some have continued to grow. Does this trend foreshadow the death” of our largest cities? Or is urban decline a temporary phenomenon likely to be reversed by high energy costs? This ambitious book tackles these questions by analyzing the nature and extent of urban decline and growth of large U.S. cities. It includes ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sprawl Costs

    Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development

    par Robert Burchell, Anthony Downs, Barbara McCann, Sahan Mukherji ...
    The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study.The authors analyze ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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    How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)

    par George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller ...
    The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisdom that got us into ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Race for Profit

    How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

    par Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Collections series Justice, Power, and Politics
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Benefit and The Burden

    Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take

    par Bruce Bartlett ...
    A thoughtful and surprising argument for American tax reform, arguably the most overdue political debate facing the nation, from one of the most respected political and economic thinkers, advisers, and writers of our time.THE UNITED STATES TAX CODE HAS UNDERGONE NO SERIOUS REFORM SINCE 1986. Since then, loopholes, exemptions, credits, and deductions have distorted its clarity, increased its ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Just Action

    How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law

    par Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein ...
    The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • How the Economy Works

    Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

    par Roger E. A. Farmer ...
    "Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? In How the Economy Works, one of our ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

    Modifié par Randall Parker, Robert Whaples ...
    Collections series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and how where we are today fits in this historical timeline. Its short chapters reflect the ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD