New Books in Public Policy
Episodes
Charles R. Shipan and Craig Volden, "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building on a deep theoretical foundation and drawing on numerous examples, Volden and Shipan examine how policies spread across the American states i...
Kian Goh, "Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice" (MIT Press, 2021)
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cities around the world are formulating plans to respond to climate change and adapt to its impact. Often, marginalized urban residents resist these p...
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to associate Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion in 1973, with the choice not to have children. But ...
Kate Henley Averett, "The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education" (NYU Press, 2021)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled, within an i...
Carl Erik Fisher, "The Urge: Our History of Addiction" (Penguin, 2022)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, since 2000, the United States has experienced over 700,000 deaths due to drug overdose. A...
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting particip...
In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Americans are deeply polarized on many issues, including science and medicine. Where once was widespread agreement, today the differences are sharp: o...
Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville, "Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters" (Polity Press, 2022)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with Eric Protzer (Harvard University) and Paul Summerville (University of Victoria) about their great new book: Reclaiming Populism: How Eco...
Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reprod...
Rebecca S. Natow, "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca S. Natow's book Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector (Teachers College Pr...
Diane Coyle, "Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be (Princeton UP, 2021), Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportuni...
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist whose best-selling 2019 book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest...
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the ...
Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern, "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" (U California Press, 2022)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (U California Press, 2022), Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern...
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Quarantine, as an invention of man, is the most primitive and universal instrument of defense against contagious disease epidemics. Almost universall...
Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of t...
Robin G. Isserles, "The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America’s community colleges are facing a completion crisis. The college-going experience of too many students is interrupted, lengthening their tim...
Colin McFarlane, "Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing,...
Keith Wailoo, "Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store...
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Helga Nowotny about her new book In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms (Polity, 2021). One of the ...
Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near ...
Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Suzanne Cope about her new book Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Moveme...
Peter A. Swenson, "Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine" (Yale UP, 2021)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracing the dramatic conflicts both inside organized medicine and between the medical profession and the larger society over quality, equality, and ec...
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make creative industries fair and inclusive? In Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge,...
Amy C. Sullivan, "Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of America’s opioid epidemic through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects o...
Seth David Radwell, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" (Greenleaf, 2021)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are Americans so angry? American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation (Greenleaf, 2021) explores history to...
Paul Ian Steinberg, "Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice" (Routledge, 2021)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Paul Steinberg, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, returns to New Books Network to discuss ...
Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the imp...
Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying i...
Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021) details the history of the United Stat...
Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that a woman may leave a biological trace on her gestating offspring has long been a commonplace folk intuition and a matter of scientific in...
Rebecca J. Lester, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old--and again when she was eighteen--she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anth...
Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school...
Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Thom Hartmann about his new book The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely R...
John Lapidus, "The Quest for a Divided Welfare State: Sweden in the Era of Privatization" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Generous welfare states are losing their key characteristics, not least in Sweden, where privatisation of funding has proceeded privatisation of provi...
Michael S. Dodson, "Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930" (Routledge, 2020)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael S. Dodson's Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930 (Routledge, 2020) is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and arch...
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historically, how have marginalized and minority groups pushed the boundaries of representative government to pass legislation that benefits them? Pol...
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn's book Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America (Oxford UP, 2021) examines how housing mar...
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, "Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All" (New Village Press, 2020)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year st...
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to the...
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples fro...
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021) by Dr. Davarian Baldwin examines the political e...
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this Postscript, Susan Liebell and Lilly Goren review this morning’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas SB-8, the oral arguments in last week’...
Priya Fielding-Singh, "How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America" (Little Brown Spark, 2021)
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnograp...
Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is “capacity”? In science research and health interventions, it typically refers to the relative availability of equipment, infrastructure, p...
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford UP, 2021) is a unique retelling of the history of temperance and prohibition. Ra...
Jisha Menon, "Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling glob...
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back" (New Press, 2021)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods--free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others...
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching bac...
Nicole Nguyen, "Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. g...
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.S...
Avia Pasternak, "Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think that states can act wrongfully, even criminally. Thus, we also tend to think that states can be held responsible for their acts. Th...
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the...
Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces; the high-skilled elite versu...
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Craig W. Stevens' book The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings (Academic Press, 2021) targets academic and...
Joshua Sbicca, "Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Food Justice Now: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) charts a path from food activism to social justice a...
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An earlier Postscript explained what was at stake for concealed carry laws in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court – and guessed at what the oral ...
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Of the dozens of juicy questions for future inquiry that Dr. Michelle Nario-Redmond provides at the end of Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Di...
Scott Cunningham, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (Yale UP, 2021)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just about everyone knows correlation does not equal causation, and probably that a randomized controlled experiment is the best way to solve that pro...
David A. B. Murray, "Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame" (Lexington Books, 2021)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS c...
Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications and e...
Steve Katsouros, "Come to Believe: How Jesuits Are Reinventing Education (Again)" (Orbis, 2017)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Father Steve Katsouros, founder and CEO of the Come To Believe Network, shares the inspirational story of the founding of Arrupe College at Loyola U...
Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activit...
Celine-Marie Pascale, "Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life" (Polity Press, 2021)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages an...
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese, "Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work" (Routledge, 2020)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese's Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work (Routledge, 2020) explores how predictive policing...
Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Clustered Injustice and The Level Green (Legal Action Group, 2020), Professor Luke Clements tackles the problem of the way in which "our legal...
Jennifer Carlson, "Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race" (Princeton UP, 2020)
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Americans talk about guns, they often use terms like “gun rights” or “gun control.” They also tend to separate gun politics and the polit...
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force (Princeton, 2021) explores the scope and power of one of America’s most influential...
Matthew J. Holian, "Data and the American Dream: Contemporary Social Controversies and the American Community Survey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How much do new building codes reduce energy usage? How much and it what ways does it matter for an immigrant to be able to work legally? How has the ...
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nada Moumtaz’s God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (University of California Press, 2021) is an ethnography anchored in deep s...
David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States" (Cornell UP, 2021)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States (Cornell UP, 2021), David Madland explores how labor union...
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Robert J. Spitzer’s classic text, The Politics of Gun Control: 8th Edition (Routledge, 2020), has been revised based on new data on gun owners...
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hate speech can happen anywhere - in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the ...
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distingui...
Adam Kahane, "Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Adam Kahane about his new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together ...
Scott Sumner, "The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before. Just as Milton Friedman ...
Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, "The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America" (MIT Press, 2020)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (MIT Press, 2020) considers the intersection of food and immigration at both ...
Nick R. Smith, "The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I spoke to Nick R. Smith to talk about how China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life, which...
John Roy Price, "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
History is told, it is said, by the victors. And so it is in regard to Richard Nixon. We all know how his presidency ended. What too few of us recall...
James W. Russell, "The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans: For Union Organizers and Employees" (NYU Press, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Russell’s The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans: For Union Organizers and Employees (NYU Press, 2021) is a helpful how-to for workers navigati...
Julian Roberts, “Criminal Justice: An Examination” (Open Agenda, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Criminal Justice: An Examination is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminology at th...
Emma Dowling, "The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?" (Verso, 2021)
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of care? In The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso, 2021), Emma Dowling, an associate professor at the ...
Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky, "The Opioid Epidemics in the United States: Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures" (Routledge, 2021)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more eff...
Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to rethink how we create and allocate money In Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose (Fast Compan...
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s nothing more vital to survival than water. “Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!”, said the Ancient Mariner, in the poem by ...
Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Called the “quarterback of the new anti-drug movement,” Kevin Sabet received his Ph.D. in social policy from the University of Oxford and has wo...
J.C. Salyer, "Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration" (Stanford UP, 2020)
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
J.C. Salyer’s Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration (Stanford UP, 2020) is an important look at the histories and proce...
James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee, "The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legi...
Paul Milgrom, "Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints" (Columbia UP, 2017)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neoclassical economic theory shows that under the right conditions, prices alone can guide markets to efficient outcomes. But what if it it’s hard t...
Christian M. Anderson, "Urbanism Without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a ...
Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design (Mariner Books, 2015), Nobel Memorial Prize Winner Alvin Roth exp...
Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we create a healthier world and prevent the crisis next time? In a few short months, COVID-19 devastated the world and, in particular, the Uni...
Mary F. Scudder, "Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mary (Molly) Scudder, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, has a new book that focuses on an incredibly timely issue: how do...
Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by...
Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With a focus on the court diversion of disabled people, Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Routledge 2020) undert...
Stanley S. Litow and Tina Kelley, "Breaking Barriers: How P-Tech Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career" (Teachers College Press, 2021)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the purpose of education? Folks outside the field are likely to think of a relatively clear or concrete answer—learning, citizenship, prepar...
Nada Moumtaz, "God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her phenomenal new book God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (U California Press, 2021), Nada Moumtaz charts the historical co...
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficienci...
Priya Kandaswamy, "Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform" (Duke UP, 2021)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform (Duke UP, 2021), Priya Kandaswamy analyzes how race,...
Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...