Features

• Cities in the New Global Economy

  John Mollenkopf

• When Patients Go To Market: The Workings of managed Competition

  Deborah Stone

• Mangled Competition

  David Himmelstein

• Privatization in Eastern Europe: The Tunnel at the End of the Light

  Stephen Cohen

• Liberals and Public Investment: Recovering a Lost Legacy

  Alan Brinkley

• Damaged Goods: Before Reinventing Government, Clinton Needs to Repair It

  Jonathan Cohn

• Beyond Shock Therapy: Why Eastern Europe's Recovery Starts in Washington

  Alice Amsden

• Crediting the Voters: A New Beginning for Campaign Finance

  Bruce Ackerman

• Coming Unfringed: The Unraveling of Job-Based Entitlements

  Mary O'Connell

  Health care, pensions, and other forms of social income should be rights of citizenship, not perks of increasingly unreliable jobs.

• What Works: Applying What We Already Know About Successful Social Policy

  Lisbeth Schorr

  Three decades of anti-poverty policy have shed much light on the best strategies for helping families.

• The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life

  Robert Putnam

  If we want prosperity, we might begin by working to restore the fabric of community.

• Detoxifying the Debate

  Paul Starr

• The Myth of Public School Failure

  Richard Rothstein

  Public schools are actually performing remarkably well. What they need is not radical reform but more support.

• Who's Bashing Tyson?

  James Galbraith

• Deliverance?

  Robert Kuttner

• Can Economists Save Economics?

  Richard Parker

• Saving Disgrace? More on Savings

  Edwin Reubens

• Saving Disgrace? More on Savings

  Fred Block