Oxford University Press

Distribution, Accumulation, and PolicyThis book looks at the gaps in wealth between the wealthy and the rest of the population, and at how they have changed over time....

High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American SchoolingIn The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have...

Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity....

Legal and Ethical IssuesThe Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization in four related subject areas - medical tourism,...

A Progressive Consumption Tax and the Path to Fiscal ReformThe Death of the Income Tax explains how the current income tax is needlessly complex, contains perverse incentives against saving and investment, fails to use modern technology to ease compliance and collection burdens, and is subject to micromanaging and mismanaging by Congress. Daniel...

Reading Nature's MindThis is the narrative of the Scandinavian scientist, Hans Christian Arsted, the discoverer of electromagnetism. Arsted was also one of the cultural leaders and organizers of the Danish Golden Age, making significant contributions to aesthetics, philosophy, pedagogy, politics, and religion....