Can there be good social policy? This book describes what happens to Indigenous policy when it targets the supposedly 'wild people' of regional and remote Australia. Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Lea turns the ......
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present--the world of 2013. The key events of our times--financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro-zone implosion--are ......
In recent years, the Nordic countries have been the envy of the world for their economic success, their institutional stability, and their consistently high levels of social happiness. But are they socialist? Some prominent members of the American Right certainly think so, and in this book they may find a surprising ally. Pelle Dragsted is a ......
Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a "Promethean." According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural ......
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with Chinas CNSA, USs NASA, and Russias Roscosmos. JAXAs budget is more than $1 billion USD—bigger than France or Germany individually, and more than that of Italy, India, Canada, and the UK combined. And yet, Japans significant ......
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Experts Eugene Bardach and Eric Patashnik equip both budding and seasoned policy analysts with the skills they need to succeed, with a practical model including step-by-step advice, insightful discussions, and current case studies.
Offers an interpretive way of understanding organizations and policy by analyzing how they convey meaning through symbolic language, objects, and act. This title argues that policy and organizational actions are often as expressive of group or national identity as they are instrumentally oriented.
Network-based collaboration between public and private stakeholders may bring about a renaissance in creative governance. The author draws on extensive research to analyze and promote the emerging field of collaborative innovation. His exploration of processes and the roles of specific systems combine the analytical and theoretical.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It
Humankind is now at the crossroads of perhaps our most unique moment in our short history as a species on Earth. Given enough computing power, data, and time, it is inevitable that at some point in our not-too-distant future, we will succeed in creating a form of artificial intelligence that far surpasses our own. And when that time comes - and it ......
