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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,212 ratings — published 1988
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.56 — 989 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,230 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,221 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,368 ratings — published 2010
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,933 ratings — published 2008
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 61,316 ratings — published 2012
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,611 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,755 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,046 ratings — published 2001
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,270 ratings — published 2013
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,630 ratings — published 1961
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 498,001 ratings — published 2016
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.98 — 31,640 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,465 ratings — published 2023
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,077 ratings — published 1999
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 892,199 ratings — published 2005
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,148 ratings — published 2011
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 573 ratings — published 1984
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,626 ratings — published 2023
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 361 ratings — published
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,067 ratings — published 2017
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 28,222 ratings — published 1974
Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 148 ratings — published
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,695 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Public Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.82 — 242 ratings — published 1969
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,156 ratings — published 2022
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 270,162 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 159,111 ratings — published 2020
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,417 ratings — published 2017
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,078 ratings — published 2018
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,220 ratings — published 2012
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 214,809 ratings — published 2014
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,687 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,550 ratings — published 2012
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,971 ratings — published 2007
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,419 ratings — published 2001
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 25,739 ratings — published 1944
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,717 ratings — published 2020
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,622 ratings — published 2018
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,140 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts and Models of Public Policy Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.56 — 283 ratings — published 2001
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,185 ratings — published 2007
Capitalism and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,013 ratings — published 1962
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,733 ratings — published 2016
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 258,570 ratings — published 2014
The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 35 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,312 ratings — published 2011
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,380 ratings — published 1971
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.89 — 36 ratings — published 2006
“Oh my God!” exclaimed Jessie the turtle, who alone immediately saw what the good doctor would say next.
“And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die.”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die.”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“In an economy with many government interventions, skilled people opt for activities that redistribute income rather than activities that create growth.”
― The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
― The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
