Why Government Fails So Often (eGalley)
Author: Peter H. Schuck
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Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781400898138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter H. Schuck
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Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781400898138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter H. Schuck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 0691168539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence of ineffective policies, in addition to unrealized social goals, is the growing threat to the government's democratic legitimacy. Understanding why government fails so often--and how it might become more effective--is an urgent responsibility of citizenship. In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Schuck provides a wide range of examples and an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domestic policies go awry--and how to right the foundering ship of state.Schuck argues that Washington's failures are due not to episodic problems or partisan bickering, but rather to deep structural flaws that undermine every administration, Democratic and Republican. These recurrent weaknesses include unrealistic goals, perverse incentives, poor and distorted information, systemic irrationality, rigidity and lack of credibility, a mediocre bureaucracy, powerful and inescapable markets, and the inherent limits of law. To counteract each of these problems, Schuck proposes numerous achievable reforms, from avoiding moral hazard in student loan, mortgage, and other subsidy programs, to empowering consumers of public services, simplifying programs and testing them for cost-effectiveness, and increasing the use of "big data." The book also examines successful policies--including the G.I. Bill, the Voting Rights Act, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and airline deregulation--to highlight the factors that made them work.An urgent call for reform, Why Government Fails So Often is essential reading for anyone curious about why government is in such disrepute and how it can do better"--
Author: Gordon Tullock
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1935308009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When market forces fail us, what are we to do? Who will step in to protect the public interest? The government, right? Wrong. The romantic view of bureaucrats coming to the rescue confuses the true relationship between economics and politics. Politicians often cite "market failure" as justification for meddling with the economy, but a group of leading scholars show the shortcomings of this view. In Government Failure, these scholars explain the school of study known as "public choice," which uses the tools of economics to understand and evaluate government activity. Gordon Tullock, one of the founders of public choice, explains how government "cures" often cause more harm than good. Tullock provides an engaging overview of public choice and discusses how interest groups seek favors from government at enormous costs to society. Displaying the steely realism that has marked public choice, Tullock shows the political world as it is, rather than as it should be. Gordon Brady scrutinizes American public policy, looking closely at international trade, efforts at regulating technology, and environmental policy. At every turn Brady points out the ways in which interest groups have manipulated the government to advance their own agendas. Arthur Seldon, a seminal scholar in public choice, provides a comparative perspective from Great Britain. He examines how government interventions in the British economy have led to inefficiency and warns about the political centralization promised by the European Community. Government Failure heralds a new approach to the study of politics and public policy. This book enlightens readers with the basic concepts of public choice in an unusually accessible way to show the folly of excessive faith in the state.
Author: John Stossel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1451640943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"New York Times" bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.
Author: John M Zito
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I have been fortunate enough, that over the past 30 years, my job has allowed me to travel all over the world. This book is about my observations during these travels and what I have learned during my time abroad. It is about what I believe that we, the United States of America, can do better, regarding the economy, healthcare, education, the environment, and basic infrastructure. For each chapter of this book, I will point out where I feel this country, or our government, is deficient, and I will provide examples of where other nations and their administrations are doing a better job. This book is about improving our quality of life, not having children go to bed hungry, providing a safe learning environment so children are not afraid to go to school, having a Congress, regardless of their party affiliation, that wants to work side-by-side on improving and advancing our country. It's about..."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Together (united), we can make a difference!
Author: Kip Koehler
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781500220686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Government, in theory, is supposed to provide services that the population is not able to easily supply for themselves. Unfortunately what has happened is that politicians have become so corrupted by the purse strings of corporate America that they are no longer able or willing to serve the people to any great degree. Laws tend to favor the few and ignore the many. This state of affairs has come about because Congresspersons have their own Prime Directive to follow... and that is getting reelected. Fortunately for them, there are so few voters who are paying attention.
Author: Ryan Aleckszander
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →I often find myself going easy on the government. I let them off the hook by attributing the consequences of their actions to a failure. In this book, I will not be so kind. I believe that the results of government policies and actions are more than mere failure. Whichever country we are talking about, I believe all government policies and actions are actively harmful. Yes, all of them. Failure presumes a level of innocence, ignorance, or accident. I do not believe these excuses are justified. Governments do know what they are doing. Modern policies all have long histories and precedents. We are not experimenting - these are tried and true procedures. They haven't just failed us, they have harmed us. And they will continue to do so unless we make dramatic changes in our government systems. We have had more than enough time to see the consequences of every government policy. There is no longer any excuse for the pain and suffering these policies continue to cause. All policy derives first from ideology. The people who comprise governments believe certain things, and they form policies around these beliefs. I will argue that these ideologies are flawed at the core, and so any policies derived from them will also be flawed. There are two parts to my grievances with the government. First, we do not need the government to do the things it does. The useful functions we supposedly need the government to oversee can be handled by private enterprises. Often, these functions are already contracted privately. Roads are built and maintained by private companies, schools can be run privately just as effectively as by the government, and every other aspect of the amenities that comprise our modern life can be designed, built, and regulated by private industries. The second grievance is that governments tend to do things that do not need to be done at all. In the first case, the harm is a simple waste of resources. We do not need the middleman to contract private businesses. In the second case, the harm is much greater. When governments take it upon themselves to impose unnecessary rules, infrastructure, propaganda campaigns, and wars, we are all harmed. In my lifetime I have considered myself both a liberal and a conservative. I have voted for both left and right parties in my home country. I am now convinced that the distinction between left and right is a false dichotomy. These are two heads of the same serpent. I will not make the case that we should abolish government outright. We have a society deeply structured around an existing control system. Removing the system completely, I do believe would be chaos. I think there is a way out, but we must first understand the problem before we can really talk about a solution.
Author: Zito John M. (author)
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781005991302
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Scott Galloway
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0735213666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.