Mary Beard ist eine der führenden Intellektuellen weltweit ... Immer wieder mischt sie sich leidenschaftlich, streitbar und humorvoll in aktuelle Debatten ein. Frauenfeindlichkeit und Sexismus sind Themen, die sie seit langem begleiten - auch persönlich - und die sie nicht müde wird...

"Debates over redistribution, social welfare, and market regulation are central to American politics. Why do some of us prefer a large role for government in the economic life of the nation while others prefer a smaller role? In Open Versus Closed, the authors argue that these preferences are...

The Reagan and Bush years left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of budgetary stringency, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation's neglected poor, ill, and...

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...