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  • Highway Heist

    America's Crumbling Infrastructure and the Road Forward

    by James T. Bennett ...
    In this eye-opening book, Professor James Bennett guides readers through centuries of one of the most underrated yet widely used aspects of American life—roads.Relying on history and economic data—and with a humorous and oftentimes sharp tongue—Bennett explains how important America's highways and byways have been to everything from policymaking to everyday life. Crafting America's roads took ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unsustainable

    The History and Politics of Green Energy

    by James T. Bennett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, governments around the world have subsidized and otherwise incentivized alternative forms of energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This search has taken on added urgency in the twenty-first century, as the specter of climate change has engendered ambitious state-level ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Not Invited to the Party

    How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold

    by James T. Bennett ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American Founders, as it ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Doomsday Lobby

    Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors

    by James T. Bennett ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate activity of the central government. In the 19th Century, American science was funded almost entirely ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • What Do Unions Do?

    A Twenty-year Perspective

    Edited by James T. Bennett, Bruce E. Kaufman ...
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions, and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Mandate Madness

    How Congress Forces States and Localities to Do its Bidding and Pay for the Privilege

    Edited by James T. Bennett ...
    What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties profess to oppose in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tax-funded Politics

    Edited by James T. Bennett ...
    "The past two decades have seen the growth of well-coordinated networks of political activists who have managed to obtain hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars for political lobbying. Although federal regulations prohibit such activities, loopholes in the law allow these monies to be masked as private resources. State and federal taxpayers, monies fund the lobbying efforts of private advocacy ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States

    by James T. Bennett, Bruce E. Kaufman ...
    A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Corporate Welfare

    Crony Capitalism That Enriches the Rich

    by James T. Bennett ...
    From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of government aid, known as "corporate welfare," is still around today. After establishing its historical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Paid Patriotism?

    The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

    by James T. Bennett ...
    What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Homeland Security Scams

    by James T. Bennett ...
    A direct consequence of the War on Terror launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001 is an awareness of the need for homeland security. This war is being used to justify a huge expansion of government powers and spending, but funds allocated for homeland security are often for programs far removed from anything that might be termed defense or security. In Homeland Security Scams, James T. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Information Technology and the World of Work

    by Daphne Gottlieb Taras, James T. Bennett, Anthony M. Townsend ...
    Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social environment of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD