Book interviews tagged Public Policy
Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03210 1
- featured in: To change the health care system, combine the collective action potential of government with the flexibility and innovation of well-designed marketsJanuary 6, 2009
The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
- ISBN: 978 0 226729459
- featured in: How our military can build the capacity to secure cultural sites and institutionsMay 11, 2009
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4077 1 hb
- featured in: Smart government can create decent social housingMay 18, 2009
Famine: A Short History
- ISBN: 978 0 691 12237 3
- featured in: All bets about making famine history are offMay 25, 2009
Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge
- ISBN: 978 0804762267 hb
- featured in: California at the boundary between international and domestic affairsJune 8, 2009
Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in Peru
- ISBN: 978 0801890765 hb
- featured in: On costs and consequences of 250 years of systemic corruption in PeruJune 15, 2009
Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market
- ISBN: 978 0 8014 4772 3
- featured in: Sound mortgage markets require a mixed-economy approachJune 24, 2009
Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
- ISBN: 978 0801890536
- featured in: Higher education has a central role in determining the future not just within individual families but also for entire nationsJuly 1, 2009
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
- ISBN: 978 0674033191
- featured in: Institutions are the medium of collective human endeavorSeptember 7, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It
- ISBN: 978 0 691 14219 7
- featured in: How governments should implement public venturesOctober 12, 2009
Follow the Money: Who Controls New York City Mayors?
- ISBN: 978 1438425320
- featured in: I examine each New York City mayor since the Great Depression who faced fiscal difficultiesOctober 21, 2009
Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia
- ISBN: 978 0674035560
- featured in: The coyote is a complex symbol of our own occupation of the landFebruary 5, 2010
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- ISBN: 978 0307272454
- featured in: About the similarities and differences between science and engineeringMarch 26, 2010
Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
- ISBN: 978 0812242478
- featured in: Twentieth century environmental interventions and their community consequencesJuly 12, 2010
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
- ISBN: 978 0393068481
- featured in: We need to “trust our instincts” less and trust our intellect moreJuly 19, 2010
