In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss the new book Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage by USC Gould Professor Daria Roithmayr. The book gives new language to the ongoing dialogue of racial inequality in America, distilling research from different fields into a highly readable argument that historical actions matter more than current prejudices in locking in inequality. Roithmayr uses the term locked in to describe the feedback loops that keep the privileged in privilege and the down trodden down - find out if we think inequality is locked in. For links to some of the things we discuss view our show page at : https://bedrosian.usc.edu/programs/bedrosian-book-club-podcast/reproducing-racism/

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this special edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss the Italian classic novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. The ancient emperor, Kublai Khan is so busy running the empire that he needs merchants to describe his vast empire, the great explorer Marco Polo is the only one whose imaginative descriptions of the cities of the empire help Khan learn about his dominion. Framed between the conversation between the two are Polo’s fantastical descriptions of the cities he visits – fables to discuss ideas from linguistics to urban theory. This short novel has become a favorite to use in courses here at the Price School of Public Policy … let’s find out why. For links to some of the things we discuss view our show page at: https://bedrosian.usc.edu/programs/bedrosian-book-club-podcast/invisible-cities/

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, Raphael Bostic, William G. Resh, and Ronald O. Loveridge discuss political theorist Benjamin Barber's book If Mayors Ruled the World. The book outlines Barber's hypothesis that cities are in better position to solve some global problems. Can cities provide the leadership that nations states used to by mobilizing local civic action and the sharing of best practices between cities?

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Joan Didion's book of essays about history and politics, The White Album. Published in 1979, these essays reflect a time of change here in California and America as a whole. If as she writes in the opening line, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Do we still live by these stories she told? Or is the world a different place now?

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss The Castle, by Franz Kafka. Three policy professors discussing the great modernist classic ... listeners are in for a treat this month. Can fiction inform policy? How does this novel, in particular, stand the test of time? Does it represent governmental bureaucracy as it is today? Will K. ever get to the castle, and why should we care?

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, by Michael S. Roth. The book has been getting a lot of media attention in the higher ed circles. And we think it’s a decidedly important topic, one that impacts governance dramatically. Roth takes an historic look at thought on education in America. From Jefferson to DeBois to Dewey, there has always been a sense that education makes good citizens; that liberal education allows the citizen to learn to think about things, and therefore make good public decisions. Education in America is the historic foundation of democracy and freedom. Yet, we seem to ask ourselves what we should do differently, what can we improve and today there is a sense of anti-intellectualism that pervades the culture. Does liberal education matter? Join Raphael Bostic, Clifford Johnson, Deborah Natoli and David Sloane to find out.

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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This month, Director of the Bedrosian Center Raphael Bostic, Director of the USC Digital Library Matt Gainer, and USC Price professors Martin Krieger and LaVonna Lewis discuss Didier Fassin's Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, a study of anti-crime squad in the outskirts of Paris.

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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss California lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom's book Citizenville. Ostensibly, the book is about how government has not caught up with the ubiquity of smart phones and technology found in the rest of our everyday lives. It is a rallying cry for innovation from within government to revolutionize the way things are accomplished. Newsom argues that technological innovation will both create more efficiency and create a wider public responsiveness. So did Raphael, David, and Sherry have Gavin Newsom's optimism that technology will easily reinvent government?

Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
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Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
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In this inaugural edition of the Bedrosian Book Club podcast, four of our faculty discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, the French economics book on inequality that is taking the world by storm. Already 9 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list, the book looks at the history of wealth distribution and predicts worsening inequality. The faculty discuss this 600 page behemoth in two parts. In part 1, they take a look at Piketty's grand scholarly undertaking, why a data driven economics book is a sudden "summer" bestseller, and some of the economic theory behind Piketty's now famous equation R > G. They also take a deeper look at the concept of Mobility.

Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
http://bedrosian.usc.edu/ 

Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
http://priceschool.usc.edu 

In this inaugural edition of the Bedrosian Book Club podcast, four of our faculty discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, the French economics book on inequality that is taking the world by storm. Already 9 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list, the book looks at the history of wealth distribution and predicts worsening inequality. The faculty discuss this 600 page behemoth in two parts. In part 2, our discussion turns to Piketty's prediction of greater inequality.

Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
http://bedrosian.usc.edu/ 

Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
http://priceschool.usc.edu