"In this pithy, intriguing, and often humorous book, Joel Best - author of the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics - explores the range of institutional fads, analyzes the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surg…
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Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our inst…
The past half-century has seen enormous changes in the demographic makeup of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In the 1950s, LAC had a small population of about 160 million people, less than today's population of Brazil. Two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in rural areas. F…
Provisioning for basic human needs is done in three main kind of institutions: the familial household; the commercial enterprise selling goods and services; the institutions of the Welfare State that provide education, medical care and other goods and personal services to all or…
