New Books in Public Policy
Rodrigo Zeidan, “Economics of Global Business” (MIT Press, 2018)
Rodrigo Zeidan
Economics of Global Business

MIT Press, 2018

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 18, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

I spoke with Professor Rodrigo Zeidan of New York University, Shanghai. He has just published Economics of Global Business (MIT Press, 2018), a great book with innovative real-world macroeconomic analyses of timely policy issues, with case studies and examples from more than fifty countries. The book is particularly suitable for use as an... Read More
Alexander S. Dawson, “The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs” (U California Press, 2018)
Alexander S. Dawson
The Peyote Effect
From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 17, 2019 Mark Klobas

Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico: though prohibited by law, its use remains permissible in both countries for ceremonial practices in certain religions. As Alexander S. Dawson reveals in The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs (University of California Press, 2018),... Read More
Kathleen Day, “Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street” (Yale UP, 2019)
Kathleen Day
Broken Bargain
Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 11, 2019 Daniel Peris

Think that today’s debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, “too big to fail”, etc. are new?  Think again. Who should control banks, who should regulate banks, what should banks even do–these questions have been debated since the founding of the Republic.  Replace CNBC’s David Faber... Read More
Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash, “Strength through Peace: How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash
Strength through Peace
How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World Can Learn from a Tiny Tropical Nation
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network January 10, 2019 Pamela Fuentes

Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although 94th in the world for GDP, it is in the... Read More
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan, “Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means” (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2019)
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan
Administrative Burden
Policymaking by Other Means
Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 9, 2019 Heath Brown

Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan are authors of Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2019). Herd is a Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University; Moynihan is the inaugural McCourt Chair in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. In Administrative... Read More

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