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Adam Smith

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Analytic Summary of The Wealth of Nations

Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

How the financialization of healthcare has eroded the quality of care, driven up prices, and worsened health inequalities Financial actors and healthcare leaders increasingly view healthcare organizations as financial assets to be bought, sold, and managed for maximum profit, regardless of the effects on patient care. Healthcare in the Age of Finance Capital reveals how the federal government enables financial opportunism in healthcare and offers bold ideas for overhauling a failed system. Rosemary Batt and Eileen Appelbaum provide a unique analysis of the financialization of healthcare, a process in which a growing proportion of the healthcare economy is owned and controlled by the financial sector. Healthcare organizations increasingly depend on financial machinations and the earnings derived from them rather than revenue generated from patient care. The extent to which financial calculations overshadow the healthcare mission depends importantly on institutional legacies, reimbursement rules, and the failure of regulatory oversight. Batt and Appelbaum show how differences in regulations and financing rules shape whether financial actors can penetrate distinct healthcare segments—from hospitals, nursing homes, and ambulatory care to physician specialties, home health, hospice, and autism services. Nonprofit healthcare is not immune from this financial logic. Evidence based, accessible, and informed by real-world examples, Healthcare in the Age of Finance Capital sheds critical light on how financial deregulation coupled with the relaxation of health, tax, anti-trust, and labor laws have allowed financially driven actors to exploit public funds for private gain at the expense of healthcare organizations, patients, communities, labor, and taxpayers.

Public Funds for Private Gain

Healthcare in the Age of Finance Capital

This book confronts a pressing and unsettling development at the intersection of law, sovereignty, and Indigenous rights: the growing entanglement between Indigenous legal traditions and sovereign citizen pseudolaw. Bringing together leading scholars from law, anthropology, Indigenous studies, and related disciplines, the volume exposes how pseudolegal movements increasingly appropriate the language and symbolism of Indigenous sovereignty to advance anti-state and conspiratorial agendas. The collection shows that this appropriation is not confined to non-Indigenous actors. In contexts of long-standing injustice and frustration with state institutions, some Indigenous individuals are also drawn to sovereign citizen arguments that promise autonomy or escape from state authority. Through careful analysis, the contributors explain why these claims may appear attractive, while demonstrating that they rest on legal fantasies fundamentally at odds with Indigenous legal orders. Where Indigenous laws are collective, relational, and grounded in responsibilities to land and community, pseudolaw is individualistic, property-centred, and rooted in settler-colonial entitlement. As the first scholarly collection to systematically address this phenomenon, the volume calls for renewed intellectual clarity and sustained engagement between academics, legal practitioners, and Indigenous communities. The book traces how pseudolaw repackages older colonial strategies of appropriation and erasure in new forms. It reveals the tangible harms these entanglements cause: legal confusion, political vulnerability, and the erosion of the credibility of genuine Indigenous sovereignty claims. It offers a powerful warning about the dangers of pseudolaw and a compelling case for strengthening Indigenous-led pathways to justice, self-governance, and sovereignty.

Indigenous Peoples and Sovereign Citizen Pseudolaw

An on-the-ground study of junior police academies--contentious school-police partnerships that provide educational resources, career opportunities, and hope for social mobility. Some might see police officers as benevolent sources of protection, but in many communities, they are often perceived as a threat due to a legacy of violent interactions and arrests for arbitrary offenses. How, then, do police sustain their presence in places where people might distrust them? In Kid Cops, sociologist Mai Thai offers one answer: junior police academies, high school programs in which police officers provide courses, mentorship, and job training to students in communities with high rates of juvenile delinquency and poverty. These school-police partnerships have expanded rapidly in the United States over the last few decades, largely in response to political unrest and police violence in the 1990s. Programs vary in their offerings, but they generally aim to ease tensions between communities and law enforcement, while also providing needed resources in neighborhoods where education and job opportunities are scarce. Kid Cops draws on years of observations and interviews with educators, police officers, and, of course, kids. The junior police programs at each high school may have different emphases, but their common goal is for students to graduate from high school and enter college or the workforce. A second goal of the program is to cultivate a positive image of the police. Ultimately, however, Thai finds that these programs tighten the relationship between marginalized youth, schools, and the criminal justice system and strain the students' relationships with their peers, families, and each other. These programs also distract residents from systemic issues of policing and suppress opportunities for meaningful change. Written in an accessible tone that balances the seriousness of inequality with the playfulness of the study's youth, Kid Cops moves beyond the narrative of detentions, suspensions, and arrests to tell a less conventional story about police in schools. It asks, does good, friendly policing exist--especially if it continues to tether low-income communities of color to the criminal justice system?

What Communities Gain and Lose from Junior Police in Schools

Kid Cops

AI and Constitutional Law in Europe

Democracy in the Age of Disinformation

The instant No.1 Sunday Times bestseller!The gripping and exciting first book in a brand new crime thriller series from the global sensation Karin Slaughter.'A powerful and gripping read' Shari Lapena'Explosive from the very start' Cara Hunter'This is a huge novel with an even bigger heart' Jane Casey'Karin Slaughter is always a must read' Harlan Coben'A dark, shocking and visceral story' Janice Hallett'An astonishing novel' Andrea Mara***Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.Emmy Clifton thinks she knows her neighbours. She's wrong.She thinks it's just another hot summer night like any other. She's wrong.When her best friend's daughter asks for help, she thinks it's just some teenage drama. She's never been more wrong in her life.As the town ignites in the wake of the girl's disappearance, Emmy throws herself into the search. But then she realises: You never really know a town until you know its secrets.***'Karin absolutely nails small town America with complex family lives filled with secrets and paranoia' 5 star reader review'Brilliant, heart-breaking, tense, disturbing and another impossible to put down' 5 star reader review'A compelling and intricately woven thriller that will keep readers hooked from start to finish' 5 star reader reviewWe Are All Guilty Here was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16/6/25

We Are All Guilty Here

A moving and harrowing portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy, and a people’s undying spirit of resistance "One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years." —The New York Times Book Review "The best book to understand Iran today. . . . impossible to put down." —EDWARD FISHMAN, author of Chokepoints "A masterwork of reporting. . . . a kind of skeleton key for understanding the present moment." —JONATHAN BLITZER, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here In 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a monarchy, fueled by the Iranian people’s dreams of social justice and political freedom. But in the years that followed, the movement’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and his acolytes instead built a system that served their narrow faction and worsened beyond imagination the brutality and corruption that had existed under the previous government. In Stolen Revolution, award-winning journalists Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin tell the entwined stories of six Iranians who, together, have lived the arc of modern Iranian history in all its bitter twists and enduring hopes. We meet Mehdi Karroubi, a devotee of Khomeini, who rose to the heights of power before being cast out of the inner circle. Hila Sedighi, a young activist, gave voice through her poetry to her peers’ hopes and shattered dreams. Amir Moghadam, an ambitious government bureaucrat, witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. Said Rahmani returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country and encountered a ruthless security state. And Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari, both born in the 1990s, joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. All have paid an enormous price for resisting the government’s strangling rule. Today, Iran is caught between crisis and hope. In this vivid and unforgettable narrative, Stolen Revolution centers ordinary Iranians and their destiny, and conveys a gutting view of life in a modern authoritarian state.

A moving and harrowing portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy, and a people’s undying spirit of resistance "One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years." —The New York Times Book Review "The best book to understand Iran today. . . . impossible to put down." —EDWARD FISHMAN, author of Chokepoints "A masterwork of reporting. . . . a kind of skeleton key for understanding the present moment." —JONATHAN BLITZER, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here In 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a monarchy, fueled by the Iranian people’s dreams of social justice and political freedom. But in the years that followed, the movement’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and his acolytes instead built a system that served their narrow faction and worsened beyond imagination the brutality and corruption that had existed under the previous government. In Stolen Revolution, award-winning journalists Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin tell the entwined stories of six Iranians who, together, have lived the arc of modern Iranian history in all its bitter twists and enduring hopes. We meet Mehdi Karroubi, a devotee of Khomeini, who rose to the heights of power before being cast out of the inner circle. Hila Sedighi, a young activist, gave voice through her poetry to her peers’ hopes and shattered dreams. Amir Moghadam, an ambitious government bureaucrat, witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. Said Rahmani returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country and encountered a ruthless security state. And Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari, both born in the 1990s, joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. All have paid an enormous price for resisting the government’s strangling rule. Today, Iran is caught between crisis and hope. In this vivid and unforgettable narrative, Stolen Revolution centers ordinary Iranians and their destiny, and conveys a gutting view of life in a modern authoritarian state.

Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran

Stolen Revolution

THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM RUTH MANCINI, THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN ON THE LEDGE. 'Lisa Jewell meets the Secret Barrister' Imran Mahmood 'Brilliantly smart, unsettlingly human and impossible to put down' Rob Rinder 'A propulsive, heart-thumping read' Gill Perdue 'A cleverly crafted chilling psychological thriller' Louise Minchin ___________ You were only seven years old when you witnessed your mother's murder. Although you did not see her attacker clearly, you are pretty sure who it was. Thanks to you, he went to prison for twenty years. Now he's out. And you are no longer certain that the man you identified that terrifying evening really was the killer. But if it wasn't him, who was the stranger on the stairs? And can he now be coming for you? Inspired by a shocking real-life case, a gripping psychological thriller by a criminal defence lawyer who has seen it all. ___________ Praise for Ruth Mancini and The Stranger on the Stairs: 'I absolutely raced through this compulsive page-turner ... Well drawn characters - proper plot and great writing. What more could you want?' Imran Mahmood 'It's gripping and propulsive, but also moving and quiet in all the right places. Bravo!' Sabine Durrant 'Kept me guessing (and biting my nails) throughout' Anna Mazzola 'Ruth Mancini is fast becoming a master of the thriller genre' Laura Pearson 'Ruth Mancini writes thrillers with the certainty of someone who's seen the law in action and knows exactly how to unpick it. Brilliantly smart, unsettlingly human and impossible to put down' Rob Rinder 'Ruth Mancini is like a British Jodi Picoult' Jennie Godfrey 'Only Ruth Mancini can deliver such brilliant twists that keep you turning the pages. Her legal expertise shines through, providing a sense of veracity and immediacy that is uniquely addictive.' Kelly Mullen 'Exciting and addictive' 5-star reader review 'I WAS HOOKED!' 5-star reader review 'A super-readable, brilliantly clever domestic thriller' Fabulous Magazine 'A fantastic story that had me gripped from the start' 5-star reader review

The Stranger on the Stairs

Celebrations & Festivals

Celebrate Freedom Day with a vibrant, joy-filled journey through the history and traditions of Juneteenth!&nbsp; &nbsp; Discover the meaning behind this important celebration that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Follow Jeremiah and his family as they prepare to honor Juneteenth and show how they celebrate Black culture and history all year round.&nbsp; &nbsp; From community projects and visits to historic landmarks to learning about Black history and achievements, this beautifully illustrated book radiates Black joy and champions community spirit.&nbsp; &nbsp; When June 19 arrives, join the family as they:&nbsp;<ul><li>Pray and thank their ancestors</li><li>Fly special flags and enjoy traditional Juneteenth recipes&nbsp;</li><li>Attend the big town parade, then head home for a lively party with music and dancing</li><li>Feast on Southern soul food, barbecue, and Jeremiah’s famous red velvet cupcakes&nbsp;</li><li>End the day with fireworks and heartfelt wishes for a happy Freedom Day ¿&nbsp;</li></ul> Along the way, you will:&nbsp;<ul><li>Meet relatable characters and learn about important people and events that shaped Black history&nbsp;</li><li>Write their own freedom song and create a freedom flag&nbsp;</li><li>Bake delicious tea cakes for their Juneteenth celebration&nbsp;</li></ul> The book also includes 16 pages of extra content—history, crafts, recipes, activities, and a quiz—to bring learning to life and deepen understanding of Juneteenth.&nbsp; &nbsp; Part of the Celebrations &amp; Festivals series, this engaging picture book is perfect for families and classrooms. With its gentle, age-appropriate voice and stunning illustrations, it offers a joyful, informative introduction to one of America’s most important holidays.&nbsp; &nbsp; Discover other titles in this series: Christmas, Dia de Muertos, Diwali, Easter, Halloween, Hanukah, Holi, Luna

Juneteenth

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality

Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it. But why, exactly, should inequality worry us? The Greatest of All Plagues demonstrates that this underlying question has been a central preoccupation of some of the most eminent political thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition.

David Lay Williams shares bold new perspectives on the writings and ideas of Plato, Jesus, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. He shows how they describe economic inequality as a source of political instability and a corrupter of character and soul, and how they view unchecked inequality as a threat to their most cherished values, such as justice, faith, civic harmony, peace, democracy, and freedom. Williams draws invaluable insights into the societal problems generated by what Plato called "the greatest of all plagues," and examines the solutions employed through the centuries.

An eye-opening work of intellectual history, The Greatest of All Plagues recovers a forgotten past for some of the most timeless books in the Western canon, revealing how economic inequality has been a paramount problem throughout the history of political thought.

How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx

The Greatest of All Plagues

For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smith's views on economics and ethics. While some held that Smith's capitalism and free markets institutionalized selfishness, greed, inequality and injustice, others focused on his theory of the moral nature of all human persons and the application of conscience and self-restraint in capitalist activities. Adam Smith and Modern Economics suggests that neither of these two conventional understandings alone is accurate and conducive to human flourishing. Smith put markets in the context of morality, observing that markets serve best when our moral sentiments are followed. In a remarkable convergence of inductive thinking, the contributors to this book set a new standard of scholarship and insight for our understanding of Adam Smith's contributions as a master of political economy, where politics brings forth decision-making about priorities and values. The contributions integrate morals, values, and the universal intangible capitals of sociality and human resourcefulness with the more materialistic side of economic activity to advocate a system seeking equilibrium. They posit that when ethics and economics are integrated, wealth can be created for the good of all. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, this new and sympathetic understanding of Smith's intentions and accomplishment is essential reading for academics and students of economics, politicians and bureaucrats, public policy planners, social justice activists, executives, and professionals.

For more than two centuries, economists and researchers have struggled with the conundrum of reconciling Adam Smith’s views on economics and ethics. While some held that Smith’s capitalism and free markets institutionalized selfishness, greed, inequality and injustice, others focused on his theory of the moral nature of all human persons and the application of conscience and self-restraint in capitalist activities. 
 Adam Smith and Modern Economics
 suggests that neither of these two conventional understandings alone is accurate and conducive to human flourishing. Smith put markets in the context of morality, observing that markets serve best when our moral sentiments are followed. In a remarkable convergence of inductive thinking, the contributors to this book set a new standard of scholarship and insight for our understanding of Adam Smith’s contributions as a master of political economy, where politics brings forth decision-making about priorities and values. The contributions integrate morals, values, and the universal intangible capitals of sociality and human resourcefulness with the more materialistic side of economic activity to advocate a system seeking equilibrium. They posit that when ethics and economics are integrated, wealth can be created for the good of all. 
 
 Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s 
 The Wealth of Nations
 , this new and sympathetic understanding of Smith’s intentions and accomplishment is essential reading for academics and students of economics, politicians and bureaucrats, public policy planners, social justice activists, executives, and professionals.

Reclaiming the Moral High Ground

Adam Smith and Modern Economics

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026'Miraculous'OMAR EL AKKAD'Stunning' MAAZA MENGISTE'Suffused with tenderness'NEW YORK TIMES'Asks what it means to truly belong'HARPER'S BAZAARAn extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for home across the globe, after his childhood exile from Palestine.All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien's shoe.Born in Palestine on the precipice of 1948's Nakba, Sufien is forced to leave the only home he's ever known, the one on the hill with a beautiful blue door. In this moment time stops making sense.He spends the rest of his life propelled forward - although in search of what, he is never quite sure. In the dusty, oil-rich desert of Kuwait, he meets his first love and decides he must leave his family. In a small Italian university town, he spends his youth wrapped up in the forgetful assurance of wine. When life carries him to a gritty New York, he discovers his true vocation and falls in love with a Jewish woman born into a wholly different world. Until finally, he finds himself recalled to the wild, vast open skies of a desert much like his first home.Paradiso 17 is haunted with grief and yet it is also struck through with the dazzling light of a life truly lived and a love that connects us, no matter our distance.Like all of our dead, Sufien still speaks, the book begins. Listen, this is his story.'An exquisite novel ... unforgettable'OMAR EL AKKAD, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'I could not put this down ... Compassionate, elegiac and suffuse with unflinching wit'MAAZA MENGISTE, author of The Shadow King'A gripping story of a soul in exile' JUSTIN TORRES, author of Blackouts'A miraculous novel'KASIM ALI, author of Who Will Remain'Remarkable ... read it, read it, read it' RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible'Lyrical and gorgeously original ... reads as poetry'LITHUB

Analytic Summary of The Wealth of Nations

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