Policy


Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Abundance
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Poverty, by America
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Capital in the Twenty First Century
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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
Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.
David L. Weimer, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice

We have historically proven policy tools that are actually pretty good at redistributing some of the wealth and power that's concentrated among a certain group of people with everybody else. They're called taxes. ...more
Brian Merchant

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