Public Policy


Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Growth: A Reckoning
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
There Are No Accidents
Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Abundance
Gulag: A History
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Utopia
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

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The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic sanctions work? While the success rate differs depending on the objective, the historical record is relatively clear: most economic sanctions have not worked. In the twentieth century, only one in three uses of sanctions was “at least partially successful.” More modest goals have better chances of su ...more
Nicholas Mulder , The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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