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Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017709150
This book attempts to make people think about the problems of the cities in the light of scholarly findings.
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015007543294
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039129031
A revision of The unheavenly city. Bibliography: p. [291]-292.
Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199978953
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty. The Second Edition includes important new material. It now sheds light on the revival of the idea of culture in poverty research; the rehabilitation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; the resurgent role of biology in discussions of the causes of poverty, such as in The Bell Curve; and the human rights movement's intensified focus on alleviating world poverty. It emphasizes the successes of the War on Poverty and Great Society, especially at the grassroots level. It is also the first book to chart the rise and fall of the "underclass" as a concept driving public policy. A major revision of a landmark study, The Undeserving Poor helps readers to see poverty-and our efforts to combat it--in a new light.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Housing
ISBN : MSU:31293017244314
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Housing
ISBN : MINN:30000010616666
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Housing
ISBN : UOM:39015007545307
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : City planning
ISBN : WISC:89126923101
Author : Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412815291
The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing the writer to derive economic and sociological theorems, and then apply them to interpret historical events. A compelling chapter on time preference describes the progress of civilization as lowering time preferences as capital structure is built, and explains how the interaction between people can lower time all around, with interesting parallels to the Ricardian Law of Association. By focusing on this transformation, the author is able to interpret many historical phenomena, such as rising levels of crime, degeneration of standards of conduct and morality, and the growth of the mega-state. In underscoring the deficiencies of both monarchy and democracy, the author demonstrates how these systems are both inferior to a natural order based on private-property. Hoppe deconstructs the classical liberal belief in the possibility of limited government and calls for an alignment of conservatism and libertarianism as natural allies with common goals. He defends the proper role of the production of defense as undertaken by insurance companies on a free market, and describes the emergence of private law among competing insurers. Having established a natural order as superior on utilitarian grounds, the author goes on to assess the prospects for achieving a natural order. Informed by his analysis of the deficiencies of social democracy, and armed with the social theory of legitimation, he forsees secession as the likely future of the US and Europe, resulting in a multitude of region and city-states. This book complements the author's previous work defending the ethics of private property and natural order. Democracy—The God that Failed will be of interest to scholars and students of history, political economy, and political philosophy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : City planning
ISBN : MINN:30000010725368
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0691037116
History Professor Jerry Muller locates the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishes conservatism from orthodoxy. Reviewing important specimens of analysis from the mid18th century through our own day, Muller demonstrates that characteristic features of conservative argument recur over time and across national borders.
Author : Edward Royce
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742565791
Poverty and Power suggests that today's poverty results from deep-rooted disparities in income, wealth, and power. The rate and severity of poverty remain high, because millions of Americans are trapped in low-wage jobs, inadequately served by government policy, excluded from mainstream policy debates, and victimized by discrimination and social exclusion.
Author : Lyn H. Lofland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003220956
In traditional human societies, the stranger was a threat, to be disarmed at once by an act of force or by a ritual of hospitality. Under no conditions could a stranger be ignored or taken for granted. Yet in all great cities today, human beings seem to live out their entire lives in a world of strangers. How did it become possible for millions of people to do this? How is city life possible? The unique value of A World of Strangers lies in Loflands expert use of rich historical and anthropological sources to answer these questions. She demonstrates that a potentially chaotic and meaningless world of strangers was transformed into a knowable and predictable world of strangers by the same mechanism humans always use to make their world livable: it was ordered. Lofland offers a brilliant analysis of the various devices used at different times in history to create social and psychological order in cities, concluding with an analysis of the contemporary city, in which the location of the encounter between strangers has come to replace personal appearance as a means of evaluating others. Lofland also describes how city people initially learn and then act upon the ordering principles dominant in their society. A World of Strangers is a wonderfully wise and readable account of how we have come to live as we do.
Author : Themis Chronopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136740671
This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance policing. It argues that these practices were part of a class project that deflected attention from the underlying causes of poverty, eroded civil rights, and sought to enable real estate investment, high-end consumption, mainstream tourism, and corporate success.
Author : John R. Burch Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440833885
An ideal resource for students as well as general readers, this book comprehensively examines the Great Society era and identifies the effects of its legacy to the present day. With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson inherited from the Kennedy administration many of the pieces of what became the War on Poverty. In stark contrast to today, Johnson was aided by a U.S. Congress that was among the most productive in the history of the United States. Despite the accomplishments of the Great Society programs, they failed to accomplish their ultimate goal of eradicating poverty. Consequently, some 50 years after the Great Society and the War on Poverty, many of the issues that Johnson's administration and Congress dealt with then are in front of legislators today, such as an increase in the minimum wage and the growing divide between the wealthy and the poor. This reference book provides a historical perspective on the issues of today by looking to the Great Society period; identifies how the War on Poverty continues to impact the United States, both positively and negatively; and examines how the Nixon and Reagan administrations served to dismantle Johnson's achievements. This single-volume work also presents primary documents that enable readers to examine key historical sources directly. Included among these documents are The Council of Economic Advisers Economic Report of 1964; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy's Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act; The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (a.k.a. the Moynihan Report); and the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (a.k.a. the Kerner Report).
