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Over the past sixty years, businesses and government have increasingly offloaded financial risk onto US households. The toll has pushed tens of millions of people to the financial breaking point, worsened social inequity, and jeopardized US democracy. In Sharing Risk, consumer advocate and scholar Patricia A. McCoy draws on the nation’s traditions of risk sharing to argue that society should lift up families by pooling and spreading the financial risks that they now must bear alone.

Cada año, más de trescientos mil latinoamericanos llegan a Estados Unidos en busca de nuevas oportunidades y un mejor futuro para ellos y sus familias. Persiguen ese ideal al que muchos nos referimos simplemente como el Sueño Americano. Sin embargo, la inmensa mayoría demora años en aprender las leyes y el sistema estadounidenses, y muchos nunca logran aprovechar todo lo que este país tiene por ofrecer.

From Georgia to Colombia to Ghana and Italy - crime exists in every democratic nation on earth, but in some places, it runs rampant, shaping all aspects of civic life. A Savage Order investigates why and how some places, riddled by inept government and states, are able to recover. Drawing on fifteen years of both academic and firsthand field research, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld documents the unambiguous measures that societies have taken to empower the strong civic movements, governments, and institutions that protect countries and mitigate atrocities that damage people's lives.