Public Policy


The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Growth: A Reckoning
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
There Are No Accidents
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Abundance
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Gulag: A History
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
Utopia
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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Scott Bischke
Surprisingly few tussles occurred over the falling food. ... Only Push the puffer and Hammy the parrotfish regularly stole more than their fair share. But they argued that as they were bigger than the others, they deserved more. “Plus,” Push said, “and I don’t mean to be indelicate here, but some of you eat our ordure. Thus if we get more, you get more.” “Let’s face it,” added Hammy, wanting to add to Push’s words, “that is the way the world works.
Scott Bischke, FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic sanctions work? While the success rate differs depending on the objective, the historical record is relatively clear: most economic sanctions have not worked. In the twentieth century, only one in three uses of sanctions was “at least partially successful.” More modest goals have better chances of su ...more
Nicholas Mulder , The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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