Policy


Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Abundance
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Poverty, by America
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
Capital in the Twenty First Century
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Just Mercy
Claudia   Clark
Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the second time during their press conference, the clicking sounds of the cameras was deafening.
Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

Jonathan Haidt
. . . decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences . . . Rather, people care about their GROUPS, whether those be racial, regional, religious, or political . . . Political opinions function as "badges of social membership." They're like the array of bumper stickers people put on their cars showing the political causes, universities, and sports teams they support. Our politics is groupish, not selfish. ...more
Jonathan Haidt

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