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  • The History and Politics of Public Radio
    James T. Bennett
    This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue’s gallery of election-year conservative targets.The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to 'traditiona...
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    85,44 €

  • Unsustainable
    James T. Bennett
    This book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, governments around the world have subsidized and otherwise incentivized alternative forms of energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This search has taken on added urgency in the twenty-first century, as the specter of climate change has engendered ambitious...
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    48,26 €

  • Unsustainable
    James T. Bennett
    This book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy. Since the energy crisis of the 1970s, governments around the world have subsidized and otherwise incentivized alternative forms of energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This search has taken on added urgency in the twenty-first century, as the specter of climate change has engendered ambitious...
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    39,66 €

  • The History and Politics of Public Radio
    James T. Bennett
    This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue’s gallery of election-year conservative targets.The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to 'traditiona...
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    48,55 €

  • The History and Politics of Public Radio
    James T. Bennett
    This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue’s gallery of election-year conservative targets.The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to 'traditiona...
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    120,96 €

  • Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.
    James Bennett / James T. Bennett
    Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education. ...
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    77,39 €

  • What Do Unions Do?
    Bruce E. Kaufman / James T. Bennett
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff ...
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    266,07 €

  • Information Technology and the World of Work
    Anthony M. Townsend / Daphne Gottlieb Taras / James T. Bennett
    Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This volume specifically examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created. ...
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    267,91 €

  • Paid Patriotism?
    James T. Bennett
    What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those...
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    267,83 €

  • Paid Patriotism?
    James T. Bennett
    What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude, esteem, land grants, medical care, pensions, higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid, should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those...
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    77,10 €

  • Not Invited to the Party
    James T. Bennett
    Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The Americ...
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    29,12 €

  • They Play, You Pay
    James T. Bennett
    They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, governments keep on taxing sales, restaurant patrons, renters of automobiles, and hotel visitors in order to build ever more elaborate cathedrals of professiona...
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    54,27 €

  • They Play, You Pay
    James T. Bennett
    They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth, governments keep on taxing sales, restaurant patrons, renters of automobiles, and hotel visitors in order to build ever more elaborate cathedrals of professional sport-often in order to s...
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    48,12 €

  • Stifling Political Competition
    James T. Bennett
    The American Suspicion of Parties.- No Competition Allowed or He Who Controls the Ballot Controls the Election.- Then Along Came FECA....- FECA: The Demopublicans’ Best Friend.- The State Feeds the Party and the Party Feeds the State.- Conclusion: Pulling the Plug?. ...
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    256,32 €

  • The Doomsday Lobby
    James T. Bennett
    Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Art' by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate activity of the central government. In the 19th Century, American science was funde...
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    35,90 €

  • Stifling Political Competition
    James T. Bennett
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    206,99 €

  • Politics of American Feminism
    James T. Bennett / James TBennett
    This work assesses, with scholarly scrupulousness and irreverent wit, the ways in which the American male is being blamed, castigated, slandered, emasculated, and just plain harassed for a multitude of crimes and sins because of a single trait: 'maleness.' From cradle to grave, public policy and the teachings of the groves of the academe are increasingly shaped by an anti-male ...
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    60,20 €

  • What Do Unions Do?
    Bruce E. Kaufman / James T. Bennett
    One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff ...
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    86,16 €

  • Information Technology and the World of Work
    Anthony M. Townsend / Daphne Gottlieb Taras / James T. Bennett
    Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This volume specifically examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have created. ...
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    88,02 €

  • The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States
    Bruce E. Kaufman / James T. Bennett
    A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union. ...
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    106,19 €

  • The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States
    Bruce E. Kaufman / James T. Bennett
    A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union. ...
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    341,55 €

  • Unfair Competition
    James C. Bennett / James T Bennett / James T. Bennett / James TBennett / Thomas J Dilorenzo / Thomas J. Dilorenzo / Thomas JDilorenzo
    Unfair Competition is an in-depth investigation of the commercial activities of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits have been granted many special privileges by the government, including exemption from taxation and subsidized postal rates. ...
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    125,47 €