Títulos en Política pública

¿La universidad pública es un gasto o una inversión? Este libro se organiza en torno a esa pregunta central para ofrecer una respuesta fundada en evidencia empírica, análisis conceptual y debate público: la universidad pública argentina constituye una inversión estratégica cuyos beneficios sociales, económicos y democráticos son verificables.

Bloomsbury presents Shadows on the Gulf by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Kevin Young While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage...

Bloomsbury presents Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Rowell Gormon Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007...

Como uma das cidades mais violentas do mundo se transformou? Das fitas de um repórter nos anos 90 às vozes das periferias hoje, uma investigação sobre a nova ordem criada por facções e igrejas.

'Ashok Khemka's career is an example of what happens to an officer when he stands up for what he considers to be right.' - Yashwant Sinha, Former Union Minister, Finance and External Affairs, Government of India 'There are very few like Ashok Khemka who never compromise on morality, ethics and...

An investigative narrative revealing how smartphones, deregulation, and pandemic isolation turned America’s pastime into its newest addiction. The House Always Wins traces the rise of legal sports betting from a fringe hobby to a $120-billion-a-year industry, reshaping how Americans watch...

The Capitalist Space Revolution Has Begun! Elon Musk's SpaceX is laying the groundwork for the largest initial public offering in history. For many, this marks the starting signal of the dawn of a new era in space capitalism. Of 324 global rocket launches last year, SpaceX accounted for 165. If SpaceX were a country, it would be the world's number one spacefaring nation, far ahead of China. In this book, world-renowned economic historian Rainer Zitelmann explores the historical factors underpinning the success of private space exploration and offers insights into its future trajectory.

A staggering examination of how America's wealthiest infiltrated the government and allied with dictators, transforming the U.S. from democracy to oligarchy. For years, a small group of billionaires has amassed increasing power, steering American politics for their own benefit. Many of these...

An Instant #1 National Bestseller Finalist for the Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deeply personal call for action...

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that...

In The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake explains how technology companies crept into nearly every corner of our lives and our governments. She takes us beyond the headlines to high-stakes meetings with human rights defenders, business leaders, computer scientists, and politicians to show how technologies have gone from being heralded as utopian to undermining the pillars of our democracies.

Manufactured Fear: When Fear Becomes a Tool for ControlFear kept your ancestors alive. It made them run from predators, avoid poisonous food, and stay close to the group when the dark came. Fear is not a flaw in the human design. Fear is the design. Every person alive today is the descendant of someone who was afraid enough, at the right moment, to survive. The problem is that someone figured this out. Somewhere in the deep past, long before written language, long before cities or governments or religion, someone noticed that a frightened person does what they are told.

Sailer’s unique approach to the most controversial topics of our time, combining good old-fashioned common sense with a researcher’s eye to the data, has allowed him critical insights into American life that few others see and virtually no one else dares speak out loud.

Most healthcare organizations aren't failing. They're underperforming - held back by the silent creep of indecision and governance structures that reward polished silence over early truth. Strategic Leadership When Time Is the Constraint is a practical governance framework for healthcare executives, board members, CFOs, and nonprofit leaders navigating the structural pressures now reshaping complex institutions.

The System Doesn’t Sell Health examines why the United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation yet continues to struggle with preventable chronic disease, rising costs, and widespread public frustration. Written in plain language for general readers, the book argues that the current system is designed primarily to diagnose and manage disease after it develops rather than to build health before it is lost.

"Sag mir, wo du trinkst, und ich sag dir, wer du bist!" So könnte das Motto zu diesem Oktoberfest-Buch lauten. Liebevoll geschildert und gespickt mit zahlreichen Anekdoten nimmt München-Insider Christian Rupprecht-Essig seine Leser mit auf das größte Volksfest der Welt. Wer kommt ins Käfer-Zelt und wer sitzt im Bräurosl? Wo findet man Australier und wo den Geldadel?

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal—that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But it turns...

En este brillante ensayo, Jean Tirole, uno de los economistas más influyentes del mundo, nos facilita el acceso a las teorías económicas que le valieron el Premio Nobel. Cuando Tirole ganó en 2014 el Premio Nobel de Economía, pasó a verse detenido en la calle por perfectos desconocidos que le pedían que comentara las cuestiones del día. Su paso de ser un economista académico a un intelectual público lo llevó a reflexionar sobre el papel que desempeña el economista en la sociedad.

In this riveting account of the pandemic and its devastating ripple effects, Gale captures the pandemic's messy realities the panic it spurred, the misinformation and political infighting that stood in the way of controlling it, and the heroic efforts by scientists and health care workers to contain it. Gale exposes what went wrong, what worked, and what continues to threaten us. From the pandemic's chaotic beginnings to the hidden toll of Long Covid, he examines how governments shaped and sometimes warped the public narrative around the pandemic.

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors...