Private Means

Author : Cree LeFavour
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802148905
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Means written by Cree LeFavour and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can’t offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better.”— Elizabeth Gilbert Spanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree LeFavour’s sumptuous fiction debut—a sharply observed comedy of manners and a moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss. A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor’s Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour’s Private Means captures the very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss. It's Memorial Day weekend and Alice’s beloved dog Maebelle has been lost. Alice stays in New York, desperate to find her dog, while her husband Peter drives north to stay with friends in the Berkshires. Relieved to be alone, Alice isn&apost sure if she should remain married to Peter but she’s built a life with him. For his part, Peter is pleased to have time alone—he’s tired of the lost dog drama, of Alice’s coolness, of New York. A psychiatrist, he ponders his patients and one, particularly attractive, woman in particular. As the summer unfolds, tensions rise as Alice and Peter struggle with infidelity, loneliness, and loss. Escaping the heat of New York City to visit wealthy friends in the Hamptons, on Cape Cod, and in the Berkshires, each continues to play his or her part in the life they’ve chosen together. By the time Labor Day rolls around, a summer that began with isolation has transformed into something else entirely. Matching keen observations on human behavior with wry prose, Private Means, with its sexy, page-turning plot, will draw fans of Nora Ephron and Meg Wolitzer. At once dark, funny, sad, and suspenseful, LeFavour’s debut is a rare find: a tart literary indulgence with depth and intelligence.

Author : Alexander S. Preker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821365487
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Ends, Private Means written by Alexander S. Preker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great progress has been made in recent years in securing better access and financial protection against the cost of illness through collective financing of health care. Managing scarce resources effectively and efficiently is an important part of this story. Experience has shown that, without strategic policies and focused spending, the poor are likely to get left out. The use of purchasing to enhance public sector performance is well-documented in other sectors. Extension to the health sector of lessons from this experience is now successfully implemented in many developing countries. Public.

Author : Gordon Tullock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Wants-public Means written by Gordon Tullock and published by . This book was released on 1970-11-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles L. Schultze
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815719051
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public Use of Private Interest written by Charles L. Schultze and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to conventional wisdom, government may intervene when private markets fail to provide goods and services that society values. This view has led to the passage of much legislation and the creation of a host of agencies that have attempted, by exquisitely detailed regulations, to compel legislatively defined behavior in a broad range of activities affecting society as a whole—health care, housing, pollution abatement, transportation, to name only a few. Far from achieving the goals of the legislators and regulators, these efforts have been largely ineffective; worse, they have spawned endless litigation and countless administrative proceedings as the individuals and firms on who the regulations fall seek to avoid, or at least soften, their impact. The result has been long delays in determining whether government programs work at all, thwarting of agreed-upon societal aims, and deep skepticism about the power of government to make any difference. Strangely enough in a nation that since its inception has valued both the means and the ends of the private market system, the United States has rarely tried to harness private interests to public goals. Whenever private markets fail to produce some desired good or service (or fail to deter undesirable activity), the remedies proposed have hardly ever involved creating a system of incentives similar to those of the market place so as to make private choice consonant with public virtue. In this revision of the Godkin Lectures presented at Harvard University in November and December 1976, Charles L. Schultze examines the sources of this paradox. He outlines a plan for government intervention that would turn away from the direct "command and control" regulating techniques of the past and rely instead on market-like incentives to encourage people indirectly to take publicly desired actions.

Author : Rhodri Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907376245
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Good by Private Means written by Rhodri Davies and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John D. Donahue
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780465063574
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Privatization Decision written by John D. Donahue and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1991-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What government activities should be contracted out to private companies? This thoughtful book by a Harvard policy analyst shuns global answers and explores how to examine individual cases.

Author : Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807553212
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Body Is Private written by Linda Walvoord Girard and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie, who is eight or nine, talks about privacy and about saying "no" to touching that makes her uncomfortable.

Author : John Baillie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476754705
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diary of Private Prayer written by John Baillie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic collection of personal prayers updated in modern, accessible language.

Author : Adolf A. Berle (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Corporation and Private Property written by Adolf A. Berle (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith A. Swanson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740830
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy written by Judith A. Swanson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judith A. Swanson. In this fresh and lucid interpretation of Aristotle's political philosophy, Swanson challenges the dominant view that he regards the private as a mere precondition to the public. She argues, rather, that for Aristotle private activity develops virtue and is thus essential both to individual freedom and happiness and to the well-being of the political order. Swanson presents an innovative reading of The Politics which revises our understanding of Aristotle's political economy and his views on women and the family, slavery, and the relation between friendship and civic solidarity. She examines the private activities Aristotle considers necessary to a complete human life—maintaining a household, transacting business, sustaining friendships, and philosophizing. Focusing on ways Aristotle's public invests in the private through law, rule, and education, she shows how the public can foster a morally and intellectually virtuous citizenry. In contrast to classical liberal theory, which presents privacy as a shield of rights protecting individuals from one another and from the state, for Aristotle a regime can attain self-sufficiency only by bringing about a dynamic equilibrium between the public and the private. The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy will be essential reading for scholars and students of political philosophy, political theory, classics, intellectual history, and the history of women.