Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why do such policies persist over long periods of time, even if they are known to be socially wasteful and better alternatives exist? And, why do certain wasteful policies eventually get repealed, while others endure? The authors examine these questions through familiar policies in contemporary American politics, but also draw on examples from around the world and throughout history. Assuming that incentives drive people's decisions, the book matches up three key ingredients—ideas, rules, and incentives—with the characters who make political waves: madmen in authority (such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher), intellectuals (like Jon Stewart and George Will), and academic scribblers (in the vein of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes). Political change happens when these characters notice holes in the structure of ideas, institutions, and incentives, and then act as entrepreneurs to shake up the status quo.
Dreams are but a phase of sleep where images and thoughts pass through one's mind. But what happens when those images cross the thin line between fantasy and reality?The Final Sacrifice is a chilling, action filled adventure from the imagination of Teresa A. Leighton!
Born with the gift of supernatural abilities she suppresses in order to live a normal life, Julie Summers is taken unaware when her powers of clairvoyance begin to invade her dreams. Her inability to allow an innocent life to be taken brings forth a mysterious detective who is interested in more than just her powers. Visions of sacrificial murders follow soon after, and along with it, the terrifying truth of the last sacrifice to be given. It becomes a race against time as Julie runs for her life as well as her freedom, but can she find the ones behind the murders before the last innocent life is taken?
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