New Books in Public Policy
Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-03 09:53
- last episode published
- 2025-01-03 09:00
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- 3.25 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-03 |
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021) Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is ... |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Ben Highmore, "Playgrounds: The Experimental Years" (Reaktion, 2024) After World War II, a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings, and roundabouts, these new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. Playgrounds: The Expe... |
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| 2024-12-25 |
Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022) In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need (Oxford UP, 2024). Larry S. Temkin, one of the worl... |
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| 2024-12-25 |
Leah Downey, "Our Money: Monetary Policy as If Democracy Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024) How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democratic. The power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, that power has been largely delegated to private banks governed by an independent central bank. Putting ... |
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| 2024-12-22 |
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023) The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increased inequality within countries. Is this phenomenon a small hiccup in the overall wave of globalization... |
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| 2024-12-21 | In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources--our data--exploiting our labor and connections, and repackagi... |
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| 2024-12-17 | American democracy is in trouble. At the heart of the contemporary crisis is a mismatch between America's Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics. Although American political institutions remain federated and fragmented, the ground ben... |
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| 2024-12-13 | The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible-reading as... |
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| 2024-12-13 | In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many--a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. In this brillia... |
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| 2024-12-11 | In this episode, Emily Kenway shares insights from her powerful new book Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It (Seal Press, 2023), an eye-opening exploration of the invisible world of unpaid caregivers. Drawing from her own ex... |
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