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  • Driving Social Change

    How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems

    by Paul C. Light ...
    Strategies for long-term social impactThis important new book illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger. It then turns to three alternative, but complementary, paths to social breakthrough: social protecting, social exploring, and social advocacy, providing a detailed map of the journey from initial commitment to a ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Government by Investigation

    Congress, Presidents, and the Search for Answers, 1945?2012

    by Paul C. Light ...
    Paul C. Light examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the U.S. federal government between 1945 and 2012. Launched by Congress or the president, sometimes by both at the same time, the investigations at the core of this book were driven by the search for answers about significant breakdowns in ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The True Size of Government

    by Paul C. Light ...
    This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Just how many people really work for the federal government? Official counts show a relatively small total of 1.9 million full-time civil servants, as of 1996. But, according to Paul Light, the true head count is nearly nine times higher than the official numbers, with about 17 million people actually providing the government with goods and services ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Government-Industrial Complex

    The True Size of the Federal Government, 1984-2018

    by Paul C. Light ...
    In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower famously referred to the emergence of a "military-industrial complex" so powerful that it threatened to warp America's political institutions and economy. However, the military was not the only part of a blended government workforce that was growing by leaps and bounds. Over the next half century, the true size of the federal government expanded ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • A Government Ill Executed

    The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It

    by Paul C. Light ...
    The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government. Employing Hamilton’s seven measures of an energetic federal service, Paul Light shows how the ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Government's Greatest Achievements

    From Civil Rights to Homeland Security

    by Paul C. Light ...
    In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Monitoring Government

    Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability

    by Paul C. Light ...
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Thickening Government

    Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability

    by Paul C. Light ...
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther

    Rediscovering the Moral Economy

    by Ivan Light, Léo-Paul Dana ...
    In Entrepreneurs and Capitalism since Luther: Rediscovering the Moral Economy, Ivan Light and Léo-Paul Dana study the history of business, capitalism, and entrepreneurship to examine the values of social and cultural capital. Six chapters evaluate case studies that illustrate contrasting relationships between social networks, vocational culture, and entrepreneurship. Light and Dana argue that, in ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • God's Covenants With Man

    by Paul A. Light ...
    It has occurred to the writer that throughout the Bible, but especially in the Old Testament, there were many references to the word "Covenant." The urge to write a book which would thoroughly investigate every occurrence of that word (in the King James Version) just would not be dismissed from my mind. And so it lingered there until I finally decided that I would tackle the job.If I am not ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • An Economic History of Europe

    Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present

    by Karl Gunnar Persson, Paul Sharp, Markus Lampe ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    In this revised and updated edition, An Economic History of Europe re-establishes itself as the leading textbook on European economic history. With an expanded scope, from prehistory to the present, it will be invaluable source for students, educators and researchers seeking to better understand Europe's long-run economic development. The authors cover key themes including the rise of institutions ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Land of Milk and Butter

    How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry

    by Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural cooperatives, whose exports of butter and bacon rapidly gained a strong foothold on the British market.This book presents a radical retelling of this ... Read more

    $50.39 USD