How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Offers a readable, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them. The author takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city, to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them.
A World of Difference
In this this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continents are in the level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. They discuss various possible economic explanations for the difference, including different levels of pre-tax income, openness, and social mobility; they survey politico-historical differences such as the varying physical size of nations, their electoral and legal systems, and the character of their political parties, as well as their experiences of war; and they examine sociological explanations which include different attitudes to the poor and notions of social responsibility, as well as, most importantly, attitudes to race.