Book Reviews | Collaboration
Collaborative Cues
Ben Emmens provides a primer on collaboration between different organizations and sectors.
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Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
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Book Reviews | Security
Information Isn’t Just Power
We should care about who is able to control and distribute data, but information is more than just a commodity.
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Book Reviews | Cities
Dissonance, Harmony, and Compassion
Rose’s bold theory, which offers a new framework for urban planning, could benefit from equally comprehensive recommendations about how to implement it.
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Book Reviews | Health
Learning from Neighborhoods
A new book makes a strong case for connecting healthcare to neighborhoods, but it could focus more on the role of race and ethnicity.
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Book Reviews | Economic Development
China’s Many Economies
It can be tempting to overgeneralize about patterns in China’s economic development—even for scholars who acknowledge the country’s great diversity.
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Book Reviews | Social Services
Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
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Book Reviews | Government
Not Everything Has a Price
When we pay people to do things that they know they should be doing as good citizens, they tend to devalue the moral basis for acting that way.
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Book Reviews | Foundations
Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
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Book Reviews | Technology
Technology and Trust
The sharing economy can help us coordinate economy activity, but that’s not the same thing as building interpersonal trust and understanding.
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Book Reviews | Design Thinking
A She Change
Iris Bohnet reminds us that we all have our biases—and suggests ways that we might overcome them.