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En la Argentina, la pandemia de covid-19 agravó una situación ya de por sí dramática. ¿Cómo reaccionó el Estado frente a la emergencia? ¿Confirmó ese cliché arraigado de que tenemos un "Estado bobo que hace todo mal"? ¿No es hora ya de contar con un balance serio que evite las conclusiones rápidas o engañosas, y sobre todo que sirva para el futuro? Este libro evalúa exhaustivamente cómo funcionaron las políticas públicas en esos meses...
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"The first half of Chris Hughes' life played like a movie reel right out of the American Dream. He grew up in a small town in North Carolina. His parents were people of modest means, but he was accepted into an elite boarding school and then Harvard, both on scholarship. There, he met Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and became one of the co-founders of Facebook. In telling his story, Hughes demonstrates the powerful role fortune and luck play...
4) Power, Inc: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
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The world's largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world's countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The world's largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country on the planet. A private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spends as much worldwide on...
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed an American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less equal, less healthy, less productive, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will ultimately succeed. However, time and again we have seen the way...
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A brilliant assault on our obsession with every difference except the one that really matters- the difference between rich and poor
If there's one thing Americans agree on, it's the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots in the Diversity Top 50, our universities brag about minority recruiting, and every month is Somebody's History Month. But, in this provocative new book, Walter Benn Michaels argues that our enthusiastic celebration of...
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Bankruptcy and the austerity it represents have become a common "solution" for struggling American cities. What do the spending cuts and limited resources do to the lives of city residents? Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level and-- even before...
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A story about hope and how every one of us can make a difference.
Unsheltered Love is a first-hand reported account of how the pandemic greatly exacerbated an already dire homelessness situation in New York City. In March 2020, the usually crowded streets of Midtown Manhattan were empty, stores were closing, people were afraid to go out. But homeless people were still on the streets, cold and very hungry, and much less able to panhandle in the deserted...
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Retirement shouldn’t be just for the rich: “Finally, a practical plan to address Americans’ lack of adequate retirement savings.”—Michael Bloomberg
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act...
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don’t act...
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"Winner of the 2016 AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research" "Winner of the 2013 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013" Martin Gilens is professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy.
Why policymaking in the United...
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A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change.
Although it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead adopted a strikingly insipid approach to policy reform, an ostensibly science-based approach that offers incremental, narrow-gauge, and evidence-informed "interventions." This approach...
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With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle– what is to be done next? Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books.
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Cuando se piensa en la naturaleza de los territorios no centrales en una metrópoli, es necesario situar a las poblaciones y los espacios que no han recibido el foco principal de atención de las políticas y las inversiones urbanas. Si bien los grandes proyectos de rehabilitación, que resitúan ciertos espacios urbanos dentro del escenario de movilidades e inversiones nacionales e internacionales, están pensados para dinamizar realidades urbanas...
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What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our "injustice trigger" get pulled, and how can fairness overcome our human need to look for a zero-sum outcome to our political battles? Tapping into a pop culture zeitgeist linking Bugs Bunny, Taylor Swift, and John Belushi; through popular science and the human brain; to our political predilections, arguments, and distrusts,...
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Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty-or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answer with a resounding yes.
Published in conjunction with one of the country's leading anti-poverty centers, Ending Poverty in America brings together respected social...
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America's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values. We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past fifty years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our...
17) Fractured
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How the hell did we become so divided and what do we do about it? This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become. Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so that most of us spend less and less time with...
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The must-read summary of Richard J. Elkus, Jr.'s book: "Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations".
This complete summary of "Winner Take All" by Richard J. Elkus, Jr., a prominent business expert, presents his argument that over the last 30 years America has become the world's largest debtor nation. Therefore he highlights how to be competitive and recover the successful thinking this nation had in the past.
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Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been, exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19, with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labor, stagnant wages, a climate crisis, and the steady creep of automation, an ever-louder chorus of voices calls for a livable and obligation-free basic income.
Could a basic income guarantee be the way forward to democratize security and intervene where the...
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As our society is stricken with repeated technological disasters, and the apocalyptic problems that go with them, the "neo-primitivist" essays of John Zerzan seem more relevant than ever. "Future Primitive," the core innovative essay of Future Primitive Revisited, has been out of print for years. This new edition is updated with never-before-printed essays that speak to a youthful political movement and influential writers such as Derrick Jensen...
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