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New Books in Public Policy

New Books in Public Policy


New Books in Public Policy

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Interviews with Scholars of Public Policy about their New Books
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Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)

According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human....

59 minutes
May 01, 2024

Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)

Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to ...

40 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)

Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, k...

46 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain" (Princeton UP, 2019)

The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logica...

67 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and t...

58 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

Kathryn Telling, "The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education: Negotiating Inclusion and Prestige" (Policy Press, 2023)

What is the future of higher education? In The Liberal Arts Paradox in Higher Education...

42 minutes
Apr 27, 2024

Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles, "Mobilizing the Metropolis: How the Port Authority Built New York" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is everywhere in the New York metropolita...

48 minutes
Apr 23, 2024

Michael J. Graetz, "The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

The anti-tax movement is "the most important overlooked social and political movement o...

65 minutes
Apr 23, 2024

Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King, "America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

What is happening to the politics of race in America?  In America’s New Racial Battle L...

66 minutes
Apr 21, 2024

Susan Partovi, "Renegade M.D.: A Doctor's Stories from the Streets" (Bookbaby, 2024)

Dr. Susan Partovi first experienced poverty medicine volunteering at a dump site in Tij...

62 minutes
Apr 21, 2024