Larry Mishel's Books

Running in Place

Recent Trends in U. S. Living Standards

By: Frank Levy,Larry Mishel,Jared Bernstein

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Running in Place

Recent Trends in U. S. Living Standards

By: Frank Levy,Larry Mishel,Jared Bernstein

These two papers provide a deeper understanding into the causes of the recent stagnation in U.S. living standards. The first paper analyzes changes in individual wages and family incomes over time. This longitudinal approach provides insight into how different types of families are managing in today's economy. The second paper looks at recent wage and income data across various demographic groups. By employing different methodologies, each paper helps explain another piece of the economic puzzle. They provide an answer to the question, if the economic is doing so well, why are Americans so anxious?

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DIANE Publishing

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0788145738

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9780788145735

Exploring Communication Theory

Making Sense of Us

By: Kory Floyd,Paul Schrodt,Larry A. Erbert,Kristina M. Scharp

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Exploring Communication Theory

Making Sense of Us

By: Kory Floyd,Paul Schrodt,Larry A. Erbert,Kristina M. Scharp

Continuing its engaging and readable approach, this second edition presents an overview of the major theories within the discipline of communication studies inclusive of the three major paradigms of social scientific, interpretive, and critical. Each member of the author team writes from his or her area of expertise, giving readers further insight into how the theory is applied to research within communication studies. With extensive pedagogical features, the text underscores key concepts and links them to students’ own communication studies scholarship and everyday lives. Key updates for this edition include updated examples and discussions around theories to give students a deeper understanding; explorations of Black Lives Matter and intersectionality; and new pedagogical features in line with Bloom’s taxonomy. This book is ideal as a core text for undergraduate courses in communication theory. Online resources also accompany the text: an instructor manual, test bank, lecture slides, and author introduction videos. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781032015194 to access the materials.

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453

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Taylor & Francis

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1000591042

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9781000591040

Reviving Citizen Engagement

Policies to Renew National Community

By: Larry N. Gerston

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Reviving Citizen Engagement

Policies to Renew National Community

By: Larry N. Gerston

Whereas our nation was once united in purpose, today it is bitterly divided. Why? Racial discrimination, diminishing educational opportunities, poor economic mobility, greedy corporations, and an unresponsive federal government have combined to create two Americas. Presented in Gerston‘s characteristic, no-holds-barred style of wit and candor, Revi

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Taylor & Francis

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1040083250

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9781040083253

Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China

How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East

By: Larry Weirather

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Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China

How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East

By: Larry Weirather

In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton was employed by Czar Nicholas II to help establish a horse ranch--the largest in the world--in Siberia to supply the Russian military. Barton later assembled a group of American rodeo stars and drove horses across Mongolia for the war-lords of northern China, creating a 250,000 acre ranch in Shanxi Province. Along the way, Barton became part of an unofficial U.S. intelligence network in the Far East, bred a new type of horse from Russian, Mongolian and American stock and promoted the lifestyle of the open range cowboy. Returning to America, he married one of the wealthiest widows in the Southwest and hobnobbed with Western film stars at a time when Hollywood was constructing the modern myth of the Old West, just as open range cowboy life was disappearing.

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McFarland

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1476620792

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Music for a City Music for the World

100 Years with the San Francisco Symphony

By: Larry Rothe

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Music for a City Music for the World

100 Years with the San Francisco Symphony

By: Larry Rothe

In Music for a City, Music for the World, Larry Rothe shares how the San Francisco Bay Area's love of music, rooted in the Gold Rush, gave birth to a Grammy-winning and internationally acclaimed orchestra. Released in time for the San Francisco Symphony's celebration of its 100th anniversary, this definitive history replete with hundreds of archival photos and images gives readers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of the world's foremost orchestras and, in so doing, illuminates the cultural life of a city.

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274

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Chronicle Books

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1452110247

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9781452110240

As Good As It Gets

What School Reform Brought to Austin

By: Larry Cuban

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As Good As It Gets

What School Reform Brought to Austin

By: Larry Cuban

Cuban takes a richly detailed history of the Austin, Texas, school district, under Superintendent Pat Forgione, to ask the question that few politicians and school reformers want to touch: given effective use of widely welcomed reforms, can school policies and practices put all children at the same academic level?

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Harvard University Press

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0674035542

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9780674035546

Estimating Market Power and Strategies

By: Jeffrey M. Perloff,Larry S. Karp,Amos Golan

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Estimating Market Power and Strategies

By: Jeffrey M. Perloff,Larry S. Karp,Amos Golan

This book presents, compares, and develops various techniques for estimating market power - the ability to set price profitably above marginal cost - and strategies - the game-theoretic plans used by firms to compete with rivals. The authors start by examining static model approaches to estimating market power. They extend the analysis to dynamic models. Finally, they develop methods to estimate firms' strategies directly and examine how these strategies determine market power. A detailed technical appendix reviews the relevant information-theoretic and other econometric models that are used throughout. Questions and detailed answers for students and researchers are provided in the book for easy use.

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Cambridge University Press

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113946356X

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9781139463560

Unequal Democracy

The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

By: Larry M. Bartels

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Unequal Democracy

The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age - Second Edition

By: Larry M. Bartels

An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy—now fully revised and expanded The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama’s second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation. President Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of our time." Unequal Democracy is the definitive account of how and why our political system has failed to rise to that challenge. Now more than ever, this is a book every American needs to read.

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Princeton University Press

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0691181071

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9780691181073

Meltdown

The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward

By: Larry Kirsch,Gregory D. Squires

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Meltdown

The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward

By: Larry Kirsch,Gregory D. Squires

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb important unsafe and unfair practices that led to the recent financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why. Open for business in 2011, the CFPB was Congress's response to the financial catastrophe that shattered millions of middle-class and lower-income households and threatened the stability of the global economy. But only a few years later, with U.S. economic conditions on a path to recovery, there are already disturbing signs of the (re)emergence of the high-risk, high-reward credit practices that the CFPB was designed to curb. This book profiles how the Bureau has attempted to stop abusive and discriminatory lending practices in the mortgage and automobile lending sectors and documents the multilayered challenges faced by an untested new regulatory agency in its efforts to transform the broken—but lucrative—business practices of the financial services industry. Authors Kirsch and Squires raise the question of whether the consumer protection approach to financial services reform will succeed over the long term in light of political and business efforts to scuttle it. Case studies of mortgage and automobile lending reforms highlight the key contextual and structural conditions that explain the CFPB's ability to transform financial service industry business models and practices. Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward is essential reading for a wide audience, including anyone involved in the provision of financial services, staff of financial services and consumer protection regulatory agencies, and fair lending and consumer protection advocates. Its accessible presentation of financial information will also serve students and general readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440842434

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9781440842436

For The Love of Music

Invitations to Listening

By: Michael Steinberg,Larry Rothe

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For The Love of Music

Invitations to Listening

By: Michael Steinberg,Larry Rothe

Articulate and impassioned, sophisticated but never esoteric, Steinberg and Rothe offer invigorating reflections on music that will delight both the beginning and the seasoned listener.

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Oxford University Press

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0195370201

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9780195370201

Hypercapitalism

The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them

By: Larry Gonick,Tim Kasser

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Hypercapitalism

The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them

By: Larry Gonick,Tim Kasser

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the history of the universe to the intricacies of calculus. Now Gonick teams up with psychologist and scholar Tim Kasser to create an accessible and pointed cartoon guide to how global, privatizing, market-worshiping hypercapitalism threatens human well-being, social justice, and the planet. But Gonick and Kasser don’t stop at an analysis of how the economic system got out of whack—they also point the way to a healthier future. A primer for the post-Occupy generation, Hypercapitalism draws from contemporary research on values, well-being, and consumerism to describe concepts (corporate power, free trade, privatization, deregulation) that are critical for understanding the world we live in, and movements (voluntary simplicity, sharing, alternatives to GDP, protests) that have developed in response to the system. Gonick and Kasser’s pointed and profound cartoon narratives provide a deep exploration of the global economy and the movements seeking to change it, all rendered in clear, graphic—and sometimes hilarious—terms.

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The New Press

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1620972832

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9781620972830

American Government

Continuity and Change

By: Karen O'Connor,Larry Sabato

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American Government

Continuity and Change

By: Karen O'Connor,Larry Sabato

This new edition of the number one book in American government continues to provide the most current and engaging introduction available for the course. Written with the belief that knowledge of the development of American government is integral to fully understand our current political system, "American Government: Continuity and Change" offers a strong historical perspective that highlights the evolution of government and engages students with examples relevant to their lives.

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321086708

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9780321086709

Approaching Democracy

By: Larry Berman,Bruce Allen Murphy

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Approaching Democracy

By: Larry Berman,Bruce Allen Murphy

The Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition of Approaching Democracy offers an exciting new approach for learning American government. Its highly visual presentation, focused pedagogical support, and inquiry-based approach will engage and inspire students' appreciation of the American political landscape. And, with an extensive teaching and learning package, instructors and students will be able to maximize class preparation and teaching time.

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Prentice Hall

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0131744011

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9780131744011

Running in Place

Recent Trends in U. S. Living Standards

By: Frank Levy,Larry Mishel,Jared Bernstein

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Running in Place

Recent Trends in U. S. Living Standards

By: Frank Levy,Larry Mishel,Jared Bernstein

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Running in Place

Running in Place

Exploring Communication Theory

Exploring Communication Theory

Reviving Citizen Engagement

Reviving Citizen Engagement

Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China

Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China

Music for a City Music for the World

Music for a City Music for the World

As Good As It Gets

As Good As It Gets

Estimating Market Power and Strategies

Estimating Market Power and Strategies

Unequal Democracy

Unequal Democracy

Meltdown

Meltdown

For The Love of Music

For The Love of Music

Hypercapitalism

Hypercapitalism

American Government

American Government

Approaching Democracy

Approaching Democracy

Running in Place

Running in Place

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