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  • Growth Management in Florida

    Planning for Paradise

    by Timothy S.Chapin, Charles E. Connerly, Harrison T. Higgins ...
    Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received only piecemeal attention from researchers. Drawing together contributions from national experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume assesses the outcomes of Florida‘s approach for managing growth. As Florida‘s approach is the most ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • Advancing Equity Planning Now

    Edited by Norman Krumholz, Kathryn Wertheim Hexter ...
    What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness and equal access squarely in the center of planning research and practice. Editors Norman Krumholz and Kathryn Wertheim Hexter provide essential resources for city leaders and planners, as well as for students and ... Read more

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  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States

    How Taxes, Energy, and Worker Freedom Change Everything

    by Stephen Moore, Rex A. Sinquefield, Travis H. Brown, Arthur Laffer ...
    A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reformAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation. A passionate argument for tax reform, the book shows that even states with small populations can benefit enormously with the right policies. The authors’ ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Government-Citizen Disconnect

    by Suzanne Mettler ...
    Americans’ relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five saying they trust the government or believe that it operates in their interest. Yet, at the same time, more Americans than ever benefit from some form of government social provision. Political scientist Suzanne Mettler calls ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Red Hot City

    Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

    by Dan Immergluck ...
    An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Billionaires and Stealth Politics

    by Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, Matthew J. Lacombe ...
    A look into the covert influence billionaires wield in American politics and the actions citizens can take to hold them more accountable.In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp." But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to high-level ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bending the Rules

    Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy

    by Rachel Augustine Potter ...
    Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and controversial policy decisions originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique

    by Shanaka Peiris, Jean Mr. Clément ...
    Mozambique is an economic success story in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its remarkable achievements offer valuable lessons to other low-income countries in a post-stabilization economic phase, including how they can efficiently manage a scaling up of foreign aid aimed at poverty reduction. Of special interest to other sub-Saharan countries are the book's discussions of Mozambique's progress toward ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

    The Sub-Saharan African Experience

    by Randolph Quaye ...
    Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Human Cost of Recessions: Assessing It, Reducing It

    by Mai Dao, Prakash Mr. Loungani ...
    Series Book 2010 - IMF Staff Position Notes
    Recessions leave scars on the labor market. Over 200 million people across the globe are estimated to be unemployed at present resulting from the Great Recession of 2007–09. We assess the human cost of increased unemployment by surveying what is known about the effects of past recessions. If past is prologue, the cost to the unemployed (and society) could be high. The focus of this paper is on ... Read more

    $4.49 USD