Public Problems

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    • How Large-Scale Change Really Happens
    • By: Rajiv Shah
    • Narrated by: Rajiv Shah
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Rajiv J. Shah is no stranger to pulling off the impossible, from helping vaccinate 900 million children at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to a high-pressure race against the clock to stop the spread of Ebola....

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    • Essays in Public Policy, Volume 39
    • By: Milton Friedman
    • Narrated by: George Adams
    • Length: 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The major social problems of the United States - deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care - have been produced by well-intended actions of government....

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    • The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy
    • By: Andrew N. Liveris
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders....

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    • Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
    • By: Juliette Kayyem
    • Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....

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    • The Story of How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform Our Health Care System
    • By: Travis Christofferson
    • Narrated by: Madison Niederhauser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think....

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    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it....

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    • Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
    • By: Mitchell Weiss
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 19-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • During his years as a public official, Mitchell Weiss was told that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges - it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Sadly, this is what so many of us have come to believe....

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    • Risk Management Strategies for a World of Wild Uncertainty
    • By: Hakan Jankensgård
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Renowned risk and finance expert Håkan Jankensgård delivers an extraordinary and startling discussion of how firms should navigate a world of uncertainty and unexpected events....

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    • A Playbook for Agile Decision-Making (Wiley CIO)
    • By: Ron Dimon
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Ron Dimon's thought-leading second edition of the book originally entitled Enterprise Performance Management Done Right is a practical road map for using connected planning to develop an agile organization and to navigate the complex enterprise performance management landscape....

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    • Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done
    • By: Charlie Baker, Steve Kadish
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service. Results is the much-needed implementation guide for anyone in public service....

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    • How Government Can Transcend Boundaries to Solve Big Problems
    • By: William D. Eggers, Donald F. Kettl
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Our government is in crisis, mired in bureaucracy and often unable to fix tough problems. This book provides an essential new model for transforming the system and getting things done....

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    • How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
    • By: Scott E. Page
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 20-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think....

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    • How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face
    • By: Gordon Brown
    • Narrated by: Angus King
    • Length: 17 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an unprecedented impact. But out of such disruption can come a new way of thinking, and in this superb new book, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face in 2021 and beyond....

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    • By: Rupert Younger, David Waller
    • Narrated by: Mark Topping
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Through pioneering research and interviews with a host of major figures, Waller and Younger reveal the key mechanisms that make and remake our reputations....

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    • Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem (Crime and Public Policy Series, Book 1)
    • By: Anthony A. Braga, Philip J. Cook
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Series: Crime and Public Policy Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Drawing on fifty years of research and practical experience, Policing Gun Violence argues that it is possible for the police to create greater public safety while respecting the rights of individuals and communities....

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    • How We're Going to Overcome Our Differences, Solve Our Biggest Problems, and Change the World
    • By: Randy Lynn
    • Narrated by: R.F. McCoy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Changing the world is a skill. Right now, we’re bad at it...but we can learn how to be good at it. That's the powerful message at the heart of this transformational book....

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    • The Psychologist's Prescription for a Just Tax System
    • By: Dr. Mitch
    • Narrated by: John Warren Hart
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2023
    • Language: Danish
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    • This book examines the history of taxation and shows that taxing income is a recent development. The book also examines how sources of moral authority weigh in on the issue....

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    • A New Diet to Lost Weight
    • By: Laura Jessy Highbury
    • Narrated by: Klaus von Hohenloe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Author Laura Jessy Highbury uses empirical evidence from a range of disciplines - anthropology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition science, social advertising, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning - to examine America's obesity problem....

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    • Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
    • By: Dale Russakoff
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Expert journalist Dale Russakoff delivers a story of high ideals and hubris, good intentions and greed, celebrity and street smarts - as reformers face off against entrenched unions....

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