New Books in Public Policy
Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/public-policy/
- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-08 12:04
- last episode published
- 2025-03-08 09:00
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- 3.24 days
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- Number of Episodes
- 1898
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- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-08 | Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right complain that they unjustly penalize workers back home. In Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, ... |
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| 2025-03-07 |
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025) Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of digital technologies and AI. With the rapid rise of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence, ... |
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| 2025-03-07 | California has more natural hazards per square mile than any other state, but this hasn’t deterred people from moving here. Entire California towns and regions frequently contend with destruction caused by earthquakes, floods, landslides and debris flo... |
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| 2025-03-04 |
Chris Higgins, "Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education" (MIT Press, 2024) Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024) is an imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose. What if college were not just a means of acquiring ... |
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| 2025-03-01 |
Timothy P. R. Weaver, "Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City" (Temple UP, 2025) Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism--emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the interc... |
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| 2025-02-24 | On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly ... |
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| 2025-02-24 |
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Aure Schrock, an interdisciplinary technology scholar and writing coach and editor at Indelible Voice, about their book, Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America (MIT Press, ... |
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| 2025-02-18 |
Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance" (Zone Books, 2024) At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wa... |
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| 2025-02-18 | We take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are inaccessible to all but the very wealthy. But, in America, this wasn’t always the case. Though for most of world history your prospects were tied to where you were bo... |
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| 2025-02-17 | As Americans increasingly depend upon their phones, computers, and internet resources, their actions are less private than they believe. Data is routinely sold and shared with companies who want to sell something, political actors who want to analyze b... |
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