The unheavenly city
by Edward C. Banfield · first published 1968
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The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield: PDF: http://www.kevinrkosar.com/Edward-C-Banfield/Edward-C-Banfie... Review: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92789.html His time preference classes explains so much…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading? What've you read lately?” ↗This makes me think about some of the reviews I read for a book that came up in an article I read back in the end of May https://www.amazon.com/Unheavenly-City-Nature-Future-Crisis/... Search them for future and time and you'll hit upon the main thesis quickly, eg: Banfield carefully defined class membership, not in terms of income status, such as…
on “Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strings Attached” ↗Dr. Banfield at Harvard University wrote a book in the 70's based on his study of this question ("The Unheavenly City"). His main finding is that long term success is tied to "long term goal focus".
on “Just Leave Them Behind ” ↗…enforcement between the 1890's and the 1980's. Many books mention in passing that the Warren court and more liberal policing policy in the 1960's played a role (the books "Slaughter of the Cities" and "Unheavenly City" mention this a bit, among others). But I still haven't found a good treatment that details how these policies made their way from the courts and the mayors to the beat cops on the ground, and how the…
on “The Caging of America” ↗