Heather Macdonald: Burden of Bad Ideas

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Beschreibung

One of the best of our urban journalists considers the upside-down world of public policy and the entrenchment of foolish ideas in closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power. "Insightful and articulate...entertaining and provocative."-Richard Lamm, Wall Street Journal. "Spirited, stimulating, eloquent essays...vivid and devastating....The Burden of Bad Ideas is social, cultural, and political criticism of the first order."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post.

Über den Autor

Heather Mac Donald, a nonpracticing lawyer, is a John M. Olin Fellow at The Manhattan Institute in New York and a contributing editor of City Journal, the quarterly magazine of urban affairs. Her first book, The Burden of Bad Ideas (also published by Ivan R. Dee), was enthusiastically praised and is now in a sixth printing. She lives and writes in New York City.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Introduction vii
Part 2 The Billions of Dollars That Made Things Worse 3
Part 3 Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases 25
Part 4 Public Health Quackery 43
Part 5 Law School Humbug 61
Part 6 Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach 82
Part 7 An F for Hip-Hop 101 103
Part 8 Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today 117
Part 9 Homeless Advocates in Outer Space 144
Part 10 Compassion Gone Mad 155
Part 11 Welfare's Next Vietnam 173
Part 12 Foster Care's Underworld 194
Part 13 Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood 209
Part 14 Index 235

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781566633963
ISBN-10:	1566633966
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Macdonald, Heather
Hersteller:	Ivan R. Dee
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Heather Macdonald
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.07.2001
Gewicht:	0,421 kg