4,642円 The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can ...

2,360円 At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to today's economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia is edifying. Decision makers everywhere dispose of ample evidence showing that social determinants have an impact on health and wellbeing. Yet governm...

8,032円 Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal--that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and...

174円 Misère de la philosophie est une  réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon est une œuvre de Karl Marx parue en juin 1847 à Bruxelles en son exil. Son titre constitue une reprise inversée de l'ouvrage de Proudhon, Philosophie de la mis&egr...

537円 It’s Time to Declare War on the War on Crime In 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy deemed the War on Drugs a failure. Initiated under Richard Nixon in 1971, the War on Drugs’ emphasis on harsh law enforcement and strong-arm police tactics spawned four decades of widespread violence, corru...

9,723円 This powerful and timely analysis takes stock of race and education sixty years after the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision. This volume examines education as one of the most visible markers for racial disparities in the US as well as one of its most visible frontiers for racial just...

3,863円 This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic...

0円 We pretty much know that we have to change how we’re educating our kids, right? Perhaps one of the reasons why we’re not doing what needs to be done is because the business of school is out of sight. We send our kids off to school believing that educators are educating our children. It’s time we ...

0円 O conjunto de textos agregados nesta coletânea incide sobre reflexões em torno do tema políticas públicas, a partir de investimentos de pesquisa, demonstrativos dos múltiplos espaços de definição de regras para circulação de recursos e de formulação de ideários voltados para construção de comport...

129円 Extrait : Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? L’homme est un être moral, intelligent et perfectible. Qu’est-ce qu’un être moral ? C’est celui qui aime et qui pratique la justice. Comment l’homme distingue-t-il ce qui est juste de ce qui ne l’est pas ? Par le témoignage infaillible de la co...

12,154円 This book provides readers the idea of systemically synthesizing various kind of knowledge, which needs to combine analytical thinking and synthetic thinking. Systems science is expected to help in solving contemporary complex problems, utilizing interdisciplinary knowledge effectively and combin...

1,222円 Lord Acton is the author of the maxim, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." In this intellectual biography, Gertrude Himmelfarb regards Acton as a man more of our age than of his own. He was a Liberal Catholic and a distinguished historian, and his vigorous denunciatio...