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The Defining Moment
By: Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (ed.); White, Eugene N. (ed.)
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and economists connect the origins of the fiscal, monetary, and social policies that have characterized American government in the second half of the twentieth century. In the most comprehensive collection of essays available on these topics, The Defining Moment poses the question directly: to what extent, if any, was the Depression a watershed period in the history of the American economy? This volume organizes twelve scholars' responses into four categories: fiscal and monetary policies, the economic expansion of government, the innovation and extension of social programs, and the changing international economy. The central focus across the chapters is the well-known alternations to national government during the 1930s. The Defining Moment attempts to evaluate the significance of the past half-century to the American economy, while not omitting reference to the 1930s. The essays consider whether New Deal-style legislation continues to operate today as originally envisioned, whether it altered government and the economy as substantially as did policies inaugurated during World War II, the 1950s, and the 1960s, and whether the legislation had important precedents before the Depression, specifically during World War I. Some chapters find that, surprisingly, in certain areas such as labor organization, the 1930s responses to the Depression contributed less to lasting change in the economy than a traditional view of the time would suggest. On the whole, however, these essays offer testimony to the Depression's legacy as a "defining moment." The large role of today's government and its methods of interventionfrom the pursuit of a more active monetary
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Price: $75.00
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Developments in British Public Policy
By: Dorey, Peter
Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd (UK)
Developments in British Public Policy provides a comprehensive review of all the key public policy sectors in contemporary British Politics today. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on each policy sector, and includes definitions of key terms, examples and case studies, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading. The reusult will be a book that will be the ideal companion to Policy-Making in Britain: An Introduction as well as being suitable as a stand alone text to be used in the teaching of contemporary British public policy.
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Price: $48.95
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Digital Barbarism
By: Helprin, Mark
Published by: Harper Collins
World-renowned novelist Mark Helprin offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language, and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. Mark Helprin anticipated that his 2007 New York Times op-ed piece about the extension of the term of copyright would be received quietly, if not altogether overlooked. Within a week, the article had accumulated 750,000 angry comments. He was shocked by the breathtaking sense of entitlement demonstrated by the commenters, and appalled by the breadth, speed, and illogic of their responses. Helprin realized how drastically different this generation is from those before it. The Creative Commons movement and the copyright abolitionists, like the rest of their generation, were educated with a modern bias toward collaboration, which has led them to denigrate individual efforts and in turn fueled their sense of entitlement to the fruits of other peoples labors. More important, their selfish desire to stick it to the greedy corporate interests who control the production and distribution of intellectual property undermines not just the possibility of an independent literary culture but threatens the future of civilization itself.
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Price: $19.99
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Digital Broadcasting: Policy and Practice in the Americas, Europe and Japan
By: Cave, M. (ed.); Nakamura, K. (ed.)
Published by: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
Digital television is transforming both broadcasting and, as a result of convergence, the larger world of communications. The impending analogue switch-off will have a major impact on households all over the developed world. Digital Broadcasting considers the effects of digital television on the availability, price and nature of broadcast services in the Americas, Europe and Japan. It shows how this depends upon what platforms cable, satellite, fixed or wireless broadband - countries have available for use and also upon government policies and regulatory interventions.
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Price: $140.00
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Dire Demographics
By: DaVanzo, Julie S.; Grammich, Clifford
Published by: RAND Corporation
In the last few decades of the 20th century, Russian demographics underwent some important changes, including lower fertility rates and higher death rates. This report reviews the factors behind these trends and shows that they raise substantial challenges for policymakers within Russia.
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Price: $9.95
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The Disappearing State?
By: Castles, F.G. (ed.)
Published by: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
`Most comparative research on public expenditure retrenchment has concentrated on the welfare state. This exciting and innovative volume takes a new approach. It focuses instead on non-social programmes such as education, defence and economic affairs, demonstrates that this is where the real cost-cutting has taken place and shows, paradoxically, that these cuts have made social spending more politically salient in the public expenditure calculus. This is a book which extends the reach of our understanding of modern public policy at the same time as it extends our knowledge of the reach of the modern state.'. - Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen, Germany. `In this volume, Frank Castles and his team of experts continue the myth-busting process begun in Castles's 2004 analysis of welfare state crisis. Their combination of statistical sophistication and theoretical reflection on the political economy of public expenditure slices straight through the myriad misplaced assumptions regarding the decline of the state, globalization, ''races to the bottom'' and welfare retrenchment. This book makes compulsory reading for all social scientists.'. - Martin Rhodes, University of Denver, US. `I like simple sentences, cross-country collaborations, great graphs, and compelling conclusions. Here, remarkably, we have a book with all four. This is vibrant writing on a topic - the long reach of state spending - that figures in everyone's lives. It is hard to know whether the book will be more gripping for the Prime Minister or for high-brow professors of economics and political science.'. - Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick, UK. Whilst the prevailing orthodoxy of the expenditure retrenchment literature. is that globalisation and neo-liberal ideas are leading to a downsizing of. the state, empirical research - basing its conclusions on patterns of. welfare state spending - does not support such a view. This book brings a. new perspective to bear by looking at what has been happe
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Price: $45.00
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Do Deficits Matter?
By: Shaviro, Daniel
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Do deficits matter? Yes and no, says Daniel Shaviro in this political and economic study. Yes, because fiscal policy affects generational distribution, national saving, and the level of government spending. And no, because the deficit is an inaccurate measure with little economic content. This book provides an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to know exactly what is at stake for Americans in this ongoing debate. "[An] excellent, comprehensive, and illuminating book. Its analysis, deftly integrating considerations of economics, law, politics, and philosophy, brings the issues of 'balanced budgets,' national saving, and intergenerational equity out of the area of religious crusades and into an arena of reason. . . . A magnificent, judicious, and balanced treatment. It should be read and studied not just by specialists in fiscal policy but by all those in the economic and political community."Robert Eisner, Journal of Economic Literature. "Shaviro's history, economics, and political analysis are right on the mark. For all readers."Library Journal.
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Price: $24.00
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Doing Health Policy in Australia
By: Dugdale, Paul
Published by: Allen & Unwin
An insider's account of the Australian health system, and the economic, political and social dynamics which shape contemporary health policy.
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Price: $36.00
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Drink and British Politics Since 1830
By: Greenaway, John
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
The issue of alcohol has never been far from British politics. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, John Greenaway uses the complex politics of the issue to shed light upon the changing political system and to test various theories of the policymaking process.
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Price: $99.55
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Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
By: McAllister, William B.
Published by: Routledge
This is the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of the global drugs control regime. It analyzes how the rules and regulations that encompass the drug question came to be framed and examines the historical aspects of the issue.
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Price: $42.95
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