Federal policies bear some of the blame for the housing bust because they encourage leveraged bets on housing. Yet instead of reconsidering…
International negotiations are focused on developing a climate policy framework for the post-2012 period, when the Kyoto Protocol's first…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
The savings, home values, and portfolios of U.S. families have been hard hit in the recent financial crisis, which has raised concerns for…
President Obama's accusation that Iran has lied about a secret nuclear plant gives the United States the most important opportunity in…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bioethanol
is concentrated in a subset of…
China's rapid economic growth and development is being accompanied by needed reforms in its emerging financial markets. The government's…
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting,…