Separating science into ‘basic’ and ‘applied’ categories limits research and hinders policy. Venkatesh Narayanamurti explains the false distinction and provides a blueprint for change in U.S. science and technology.
The field of environmental economics is more important than ever, with new economics theories quickly becoming government policy. Robert Stavins explores the leading ideas in the field.
Robert N. Stavins has been one of the most influential voices in environmental economics and policy over the past two decades. In this book, he collects essays on environmental policy and economic analysis, economics and technical change, natural resource economics, and climate change policy.
Practicing business etiquette doesn’t mean pretending to be someone you’re not. With practical, up-to-date tips on minding your business manners, Jeffrey Seglin guides readers through the tricky territory of office etiquette with real-life stories and workplace scenarios.
Sustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. William Clark offers a strategic framework to evaluate alternative development pathways and to link knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainability goals.
Stephen Goldsmith offers a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age, helping leaders to leverage important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities.
Nicco Mele argues that unless we exercise deliberate choices over the use of our technologies, we doom ourselves to a future that tramples human values, generates chaos in our social structures, and destroys rather than enhances freedom.
Institutional reforms are common across the globe, but often produce limited results. They lead to new laws that are not properly implemented, and new organizations with poor capacities. Matt Andrews explains why reform results are frequently limited and offers solutions for overcoming those limits.
Lee Kuan Yew founded modern Singapore and served its prime minister from 1959 to 1990. Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill draw on in-depth interviews with Lee to distill his approach to global strategy for today’s society.
While governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within. Jorrit De Jong dissects the strategies and tactics they use to navigate the risky waters of their institutional environments.
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. With Yantian as a case study, Anthony Saich shows how village outcomes are shaped by factors like path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.
Stressing humanity’s collective ownership of the earth, Mathias Risse offers a new theory of global distributive justice--what he calls pluralist internationalism--where in different contexts, different principles of justice apply. Examining fairness in trade, labor rights, global inequality, and more, Risse develops a new foundational theory of human rights.
How should we deal with societal ills like crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? Malcolm Sparrow demonstrates that an explicit focus on the bads rather than on the countervailing goods (safety, prosperity, environmental stewardship) can provide rich opportunities for surgically efficient and effective interventions.