Background
Downs, Anthony was born on November 21, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of James Chesterfield and Florence Glassbrook (Finn) Downs.
(Bureaus are among the most important institutions in ever...)
Bureaus are among the most important institutions in every part of the world. Not only do they provide employment for a very significant fraction of the world's population, but they also make critical decisions that shape the economic, educational, political, social, moral, and even religious lives of nearly everyone on earth. This book develops a useful theory of bureaucratic decision making. The theory will enable analysts to predict at least some aspects of bureau behavior accurately, and to incorporate bureaus into a more generalized theory of social decision making--particularly one relevant to democracies. It would be impossible to solve all the problems involved in this immense and complex field; however, this book will solve many, and create a framework upon which solutions to still more may be built by other theorists.
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Urban studies, economics, sociology, and political science perspectives on the exclusion from the suburbs of poor and minority populations. Provides a rationale and detailed program to address housing and urban problems.
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( Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money,...)
Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communities —and it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies. Drawing on a significant body of research by transportation experts and land-use planners, he counters environmentalists and road lobbyists alike by explaining why seemingly simple solutions, such as expanding public transit or expanding roads, have unintended consequences that cancel out their apparent advantages. He argues that while there might be some measurable gains from increasing housing densities, most other land-use strategies have little effect. Indeed, the most powerful solutions, including higher gasoline taxes, increased public funding for transit, and highway tolls, are also the least palatable politically. St ill Stuck in Traffic contains new material on the causes of congestion, its dynamics, and its relative incidence in various parts of the country. In clear and realistic terms, Downs seeks to explore why traffic congestion has become part of modern American life and how it can be kept under control.
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Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.S. cities. In fact, a majority of residents in metropolitan and suburban areas consider congestion their most serious local problem. As citizens have become increasingly frustrated by repeated traffic delays that cost them money and waste time, congestion has become an important factor affecting local government policies in many parts of the nation. In this new book, Anthony Downs looks at the causes of worsening traffic congestion, especially in suburban areas, and considers the possible remedies. He analyzes the specific advantages and disadvantages of every major strategy that has been proposed to reduce congestion. In nontechnical language, he focuses on two central issues: the relationships between land-use and traffic flow in rapidly growing areas, and whether local policies can effectively reduce congestion or if more regional approaches are necessary. In rapidly growing parts of the country, congestion is worse than it was five or ten years ago. But Downs notes that the problem has apparently not yet become bad enough to stimulate effective responses. Neither government officials nor citizens seem willing to consider changing the behavior and public policies that cause congestion. To alleviate the problem, both groups must be prepared to make these fundamental changes. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Book of 1992 Co-published with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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(This volume contains a selection of Anthony Downs' essays...)
This volume contains a selection of Anthony Downs' essays, written since the 1950s, on politics and political theory. The articles address such issues as democracy, public choice theory, rational political decision-making and political policy.
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"Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy" is an analysis of the relations between multinational corporations and the governments of the industrialized states. The author has written an account of policy development in 15 industrial countries over the past three decades which questions both the motivation and effectiveness of government policy. The text explains how government policies have evolved, comparing the application of specific policies such as restricted sectors, investment review and investment incentives. In conclusion, the author offers an assessment of recent progress towards more liberal and better targeted government policies.
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( Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money,...)
Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment. Most Americans agree that traffic congestion is the major problem in their communities —and it only seems to be getting worse. In this revised and expanded edition of his landmark work Stuck in Traffic, Anthony Downs examines the benefits and costs of various anticongestion strategies. Drawing on a significant body of research by transportation experts and land-use planners, he counters environmentalists and road lobbyists alike by explaining why seemingly simple solutions, such as expanding public transit or expanding roads, have unintended consequences that cancel out their apparent advantages. He argues that while there might be some measurable gains from increasing housing densities, most other land-use strategies have little effect. Indeed, the most powerful solutions, including higher gasoline taxes, increased public funding for transit, and highway tolls, are also the least palatable politically. St ill Stuck in Traffic contains new material on the causes of congestion, its dynamics, and its relative incidence in various parts of the country. In clear and realistic terms, Downs seeks to explore why traffic congestion has become part of modern American life and how it can be kept under control.
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(Niagara of Capital: How Global Capital has Transformed Ho...)
Niagara of Capital: How Global Capital has Transformed Housing and Real Estate Markets, explains how the record flow of financial capital into the real estate markets over the last decade stimulated a world-wide explosion in housing production and prices, resulting in a dramatic change in the basic structure of household wealth in most nations, including the United States. Author, Anthony Downs provides a step-by-step analysis of the role easy capital played in generating this rise in household wealth, and examines how the availability of cheap money led to the proliferation of poorly underwritten and risky loans, leading to the collapse of the subprime market and the subsequent credit crunch and stock market decline. Along with the disintegration of the subprime market, Downs outlines other scenarios that could threaten the flow of capital into real estate. Niagara of Capital serves as a primer for those seeking to better understand the role of the extraordinary influx of capital in changing the world-wide real estate market and what part it plays in explaining the current global economic downturn. Downs identifies the major sources of capital, discusses the impact the flood of capital had on housing and commercial real estate markets, describes factors that make housing more affordable or less affordable, explains conditions that cause the flow of capital into real estate to slow or come to a halt, and discusses why capital flows do not continue indefinitely.
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( Explaining that the current financial crisis began with...)
Explaining that the current financial crisis began with an unprecedented flow of financial capital into commercial and housing markets, this study by a real estate insider describes the impact of the downturn and assesses the future for real estate markets. Topics of discussion include the credit crunch, problems with the flow of capital, the outlook for commercial property markets, and advice to individual investors for buying and selling while the market is down.
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( The environmental impacts of sprawling development have...)
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study. The authors analyze the extent of sprawl, define an alternative, more compact form of growth, project the magnitude and location of future growth, and compare what the total costs of those two forms of growth would be if each was applied throughout the nation. They analyze the likely effects of continued sprawl, consider policy options, and discuss examples of how more compact growth would compare with sprawl in particular regions. Finally, they evaluate whether compact growth is likely to produce the benefits claimed by its advocates. The book represents a comprehensive and objective analysis of the costs and benefits of different approaches to growth, and gives decision-makers and others concerned with planning and land use realistic and useful data on the implications of various options and policies.
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( The environmental impacts of sprawling development have...)
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study. The authors analyze the extent of sprawl, define an alternative, more compact form of growth, project the magnitude and location of future growth, and compare what the total costs of those two forms of growth would be if each was applied throughout the nation. They analyze the likely effects of continued sprawl, consider policy options, and discuss examples of how more compact growth would compare with sprawl in particular regions. Finally, they evaluate whether compact growth is likely to produce the benefits claimed by its advocates. The book represents a comprehensive and objective analysis of the costs and benefits of different approaches to growth, and gives decision-makers and others concerned with planning and land use realistic and useful data on the implications of various options and policies.
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Understand. Compare. Assess. With an accessible text, new “Texas and the Nation” infographics, the Norton Coursepack, and a unique Test Bank, Governing Texas, Second Edition, offers extensive, easy-to-use tools to help students understand the basics of Texas politics and compare Texas to other states, and to help instructors assess students on state-mandated learning outcomes.
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Understand. Compare. Assess. With an accessible text, new “Texas and the Nation” infographics, the Norton Coursepack, and a unique Test Bank, Governing Texas, Second Edition, offers extensive, easy-to-use tools to help students understand the basics of Texas politics and compare Texas to other states, and to help instructors assess students on state-mandated learning outcomes.
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Downs, Anthony was born on November 21, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of James Chesterfield and Florence Glassbrook (Finn) Downs.
Bachelor, Carleton College, 1952. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Carleton College, 2002. Master of Arts, Stanford University, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1956.
With Real Estate Research Corporation, Chicago, 1959-1977, chairman board directors, 1973-1977. Assistant professor economics and political science University Chicago, 1959-1962. Economic consultant Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1963-1965.
Senior fellow Brookings Institution, Washington, since 1977. Visiting fellow Public Policy Institute of California, 2004. Board directors National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal and Educational Defense Fund., Inc., General Growth Properties.
Member National Commission on Urban Problems, 1967—1968, Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing, 1990—1991. Advisory board Institute for Research on Poverty, 1970—1978.
(Niagara of Capital: How Global Capital has Transformed Ho...)
( Explaining that the current financial crisis began with...)
("Multinational Enterprise and Public Policy" is an analys...)
( The environmental impacts of sprawling development have...)
( The environmental impacts of sprawling development have...)
(Urban studies, economics, sociology, and political scienc...)
(This volume contains a selection of Anthony Downs' essays...)
( Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money,...)
( Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money,...)
("having given party politics a cent5ral p[lace in his tho...)
(Bureaus are among the most important institutions in ever...)
( Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem...)
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Author: An Economic Theory of Democracy, 1957, Inside Bureaucracy, 1967, Urban Problems and Prospects, 1970, second edition, 1976, Opening Up the Suburbs, 1973, Federal Housing Subsidies, 1973, Racism in American, 1970, Neighborhoods and Urban Development, 1981, Rental Housing in the 1980s, 1983, The Revolution in Real Estate Finance, 1985, Stuck in Traffic, 1992, New Visions for Metropolitan American, 1994, A Re-Evaluation of Residential Rent Control, 1996, Political Theory and Public Choice, 1998, Urban Affairs and Urban Policy, 1998, Still Stuck in Traffic, 2004, The Niagara of Capital, 2007, Real Estate and the Financial Crisis, 2009. Co-author: Urban Decline and the Future of the American Cities, 1982, Costs of Sprawl, 2000, 2003, Sprawl Costs, 2005. Co-editor: Do Housing Allowances Work, 1981, Energy Costs, Urban Development and Housing, 1984.
Editor: Growth Management and Affordable Houring: Do they Conflict.
Application of economic analysis to political theory concerning democratic political parties and bureaucratic organisations, including analysis of impacts of uncertainty and ignorance. Analysis of racial segregation in United States cities, its causes and effects. Analysis of dynamics of urban development as related to neighbourhood change and falling population in large United States cities.
Analysis of real-estate capital flows.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1956-1959. Member American Economic Association, American Society Real Estate Counselors, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Urban Land Institute, National Academy Public Administration, Anglo American Real Property Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Alpha.
Married Katherine Watson, April 7, 1956 (dec.May 27, 1998). Children: Katherine, Christine, Tony, Paul, Carol. Married Darian Olsen, November 6, 1999.