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Why I care about a moonshot for care

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

Mariana Mazzucato has taken the idea as far as anyone including in her latest book. And, in a nice piece of timing, that is the title of Michael Barber’s new book in his “deliverology” sequence. You’ll need to read the book (and so will I). But here’s the thing.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] 81 trillion.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). O’Hara (2010, p. Cambridge: Polity. Benford, R. and Snow, D.