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The Big Thaw
(September 2019)
Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the Circumpolar North
Ezra B. W. Zubrow - Editor
Errol Meidinger - Editor
Kim Diana Connolly - Editor
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Explores the unprecedented and rapid climate changes occurring in the Arctic environment.
Climate change, one of the drivers of global change, is controversial in political circles, but recognized in scientific ones as being of central importance today for the United States and the world. In The Big Thaw, the editors bring together experts, advocates, and academic professionals who address the serious issue of how climate...(Read More) |
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Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development, Second Edition
(July 2019)
Uses, Structures, and Impact
Craig L. Johnson - Editor
Kenneth A. Kriz - Editor
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Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.
This book brings together leading experts to examine the evolving nature of tax increment financing (TIF), the most widely used tool of local economic and community development. Originally designed as an innovative approach to the redevelopment of blighted areas, it has become a more general-purpose tool of economic an...(Read More) |
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Property Rights in Contemporary Governance
(February 2019)
Staci M. Zavattaro - Editor
Gregory R. Peterson - Editor
Ann E. Davis - Editor
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Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.
Property is a concept that is seemingly simple to understand yet continually evolving in the face of cultural change and technological advance. Property Rights in Contemporary Governance examines the many meanings of property, how they have changed over time, and the roles they play in policy, society, and law. With its deeply interdisc...(Read More) |
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Everyday Sustainability
(November 2017)
Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Debarati Sen - Author
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Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.
Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground zero of market-based sustainability initiatives—Darjeeling, India—where Fair Trade ostensibly promises gender justice to minority Nepali women engaged in organic tea production. These women tea farmers and plantation workers have distinct entrepr...(Read More) |
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Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State
(February 2015)
Luis Suarez-Villa - Author
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Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.
The largest, wealthiest corporations have gained unprecedented power and influence in contemporary life. From cradle to grave the decisions made by these entities have an enormous impact on how we live and work, what we eat, our physical and psychological health, what we know or believe, whom we elect, and how we deal with one another and wi...(Read More) |
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Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System
(December 2010)
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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Analysis on a dual insurance regulation system and its effectiveness relevant to the current system of regulation.
In Regulating the Business of Insurance in a Federal System, Joseph F. Zimmerman provides an up-to-date historical description and analysis of the regulation of the business of insurance in the United States. He focuses on the controversial issue of whether Congress should authorize opti...(Read More) |
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Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System
(October 2010)
Susan M. Hoffmann - Author
Mark K. Cassell - Author
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Studies how the Federal Home Loan Bank System has changed over time and why.
During the current recession, one of the worst in United States history, the federal government undertook a series of sweeping changes related to the home mortgage foreclosure crisis. These changes, in particular to the Federal Home Loan Bank System, have many implications. Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System...(Read More) |
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Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy
(April 2008)
Kemal Gürüz - Author
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Demonstrates how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education evolved over time, and the ways in which it is occurring in today’s global knowledge economy.
Students and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon. Kemal Gürüz discusses how the international mobility of students, scholars, programs, and ...(Read More) |
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The Silence of Congress
(August 2007)
State Taxation of Interstate Commerce
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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Argues for greater congressional oversight of state taxation of interstate commerce.
The Silence of Congress is the first book to examine state taxation of interstate commerce and the relative inactivity on the part of Congress to regulate such commerce. As states actively seek to maximize tax revenues, congressional silence has affected both citizens and corporations and resulted in myriad tax inequalities ...(Read More) |
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The Japan That Never Was
(March 2004)
Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country
Dick Beason - Author
Dennis Patterson - Author
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Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.
In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political...(Read More) |
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