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Thinking Like a Political Scientist

A Practical Guide to Research Methods

by Christopher Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important concepts...

From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus

by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate...

Cultural Evolution

How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

by Alex Mesoudi
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.   Covering...

Global Rivalries

Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade

by Amy A. Quark
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it’s no surprise that everyone wants a seat at the table—or...
by Reinhold Niebuhr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010

“[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013

This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas haven't been...

How Should We Live?

A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality

by John Kekes
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014

What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013

In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the federal government has pursued significant regulatory reforms, including proposals to measure and monitor systemic risk. However, there is much debate about how this might be accomplished quantitatively and objectively—or whether this is even...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019

This volume highlights the interaction between public policy and innovation. The first chapter documents the dramatic globalization of R&D and how this development has affected the efforts of  U.S. multinationals to operate on the global technology frontier. The next chapter synthesizes research...

Noise

Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

by Alex Preda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however,...

State Constitutional Politics

Governing by Amendment in the American States

by John Dinan
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018

Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a regular basis, and the current documents have been...

Economy of Words

Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks

by Douglas R. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate...

The Submerged State

How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy

by Suzanne Mettler
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011

“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social benefits and so hostile to them in principle, even though they receive them? The Obama administration...

White-Collar Government

The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

by Nicholas Carnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult...
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