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The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid …
The Gun Debate
Even before the recent Newtown, CT massacre, gun violence and gun control has preoccupied public officals and legislators at all levels of government as well as powerful special …
Lessons from the Economics of Crime
Research from the United States, Europe, and South America demonstrates the usefulness of the tools of economic analysis for the study of crime.Economists who bring the tools of …
Controlling Crime
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the …
Practising Human Geography
'Filling an enormous gap in the geographic literature, here is a terrific book that shows us how to think about and practice human geographic research' - Professor Jennifer Wolch, …
Australian Bryozoa Volume 2
Bryozoans are aquatic animals that form colonies of connected individuals. They take a variety of forms: some are bushy and moss-like, some are flat and encrusting and others …
Winner-Take-All Society
Why does the top one per cent of the population capture such a disproportionate amount of the wealth? Why do top athletes win dozens of sponsorship deals, yet competitors who …
Lessons from the Economics of Crime
Research from the United States, Europe, and South America demonstrates the usefulness of the tools of economic analysis for the study of crime.Economists who bring the tools of …
Gun Violence: The Real Costs
The objective of this book is to quantify the social costs of gun violence in order to help policy makers determine how many and which violence programmes to support. Drawing upon …
Policing Gun Violence
In many U.S. cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and …
Paying the Tab
What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but …
Controlling Crime
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent …