Bøger af Howard Rosenthal

An analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality, rising immigration, and other social and economic changes.

A collection of one-on-one interviews with some of the top therapists and counsellors in the world. Each interview reveals insights into the therapists' personal lives, their observations on counselling and the helping profession in general.

Written in a conversational style, this book provides techniques and specific suggestions to combat depression, fear, loneliness, anger, poor self-image, relationship difficulties and other problems.

This book begins where courses, workshops, training seminars, and textbooks leave off, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the fields of therapy, counselling and human services.

How governmental failure led to the 2008 financial crisis-and what needs to be done to avoid another similar event Behind every financial crisis lurks a "e;political bubble"e;-policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles-arising from a potent combination of beliefs, institutions, and interests-aid, abet, and amplify risk. Demonstrating how political bubbles helped create the real estate-generated financial bubble and the 2008 financial crisis, this book argues that similar government oversights in the aftermath of the crisis undermined Washington's response to the "e;popped"e; financial bubble, and shows how such patterns have occurred repeatedly throughout US history.The authors show that just as financial bubbles are an unfortunate mix of mistaken beliefs, market imperfections, and greed, political bubbles are the product of rigid ideologies, unresponsive and ineffective government institutions, and special interests. Financial market innovations-including adjustable-rate mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, and credit default swaps-become subject to legislated leniency and regulatory failure, increasing hazardous practices. The authors shed important light on the politics that blinds regulators to the economic weaknesses that create the conditions for economic bubbles and recommend simple, focused rules that should help avoid such crises in the future.The first full accounting of how politics produces financial ruptures, Political Bubbles offers timely lessons that all sectors would do well to heed.

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789

By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, this work shows that, despite an array of issues facing legislators, over 81 percent of their voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism.