"Flaherty writes with stealthy acuity, his prose seemingly simple yet full of coiled power. . . . Multiple hauntings emerge in 'The Dredge,' and you’ll be contemplating them after the last page."—Sarah Weinman, The New York TimesIn Brendan Flaherty’s debut novel, two estranged brothers must confront the violence of the past when they find out a pond where they played as children will be dredged.After some traumatic teenaged years i...

Struggling with work and fatherhood, Jake Flynn is forced to make an impossible choice when an eccentric, sordid con artist ropes him into a mausoleum heist that could cost him more than he bargained forAs an overworked and underpaid remote worker for a tech company, Jake Flynn feels stuck. His aging parents need care, his young children need attention, and his burnt-out wife needs support. With his boss hounding him at all hours of the day and the seemingly never-...

Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more—to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities and housing, to levels of wealth and crime, he shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of twenty-first-century Americans. More capacious than standard texts...

Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization, and more—to bear on contentious issues of race in the United States. In areas ranging from quality of health care and education, to employment opportunities and housing, to levels of wealth and crime, he shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of twenty-first-century Americans. More capacious than standard texts...

Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system.If you’re a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer, how afraid are you of the young man you’re about to arrest? As a judge, do you think the suspect in front of you will show up in court if released from pretrial detention? As a juror, does the defendant seem guilty to you? Your answers may depend on the stereot...

Struggling with work and fatherhood, Jake Flynn is forced to make an impossible choice when an eccentric, sordid con artist ropes him into a mausoleum heist that could cost him more than he bargained forAs an overworked and underpaid remote worker for a tech company, Jake Flynn feels stuck. His aging parents need care, his young children need attention, and his burnt-out wife needs support. With his boss hounding him at all hours of the day and the seemingly never-...

This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.Its methods of analysis are primarily v...