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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume discusses the problems of state governments in coping with contemporary issues of redesigning taxation policies to encourage economic growth.
The Federal Appointments Process
A Constitutional and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2001
Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process,...
Bodies as Evidence
Security, Knowledge, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as...
Race on the Line
Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2001
Race on the Line is the first book to address the convergence of race, gender, and technology in the telephone industry. Venus Green—a former Bell System employee and current labor historian—presents a hundred year history of telephone operators and their work processes, from the invention of...
Shaky Colonialism
The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates...
Tracking Europe
Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Tracking Europe is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Ginette Verstraete interrogates European discourses on unlimited movement for everyone and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary social...
Contested Histories in Public Space
Memory, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular...
Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how...
Love Saves the Day
A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
Opening with David Mancuso’s seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine’s party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission...
The Social Life of Financial Derivatives
Markets, Risk, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Social Life of Financial Derivatives Edward LiPuma theorizes the profound social dimensions of derivatives markets and the processes, rituals, and belief systems that drive them. In response to the 2008 financial crisis and drawing on his experience trading derivatives, LiPuma outlines how...
The Community Economic Development Movement
Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999
Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.
The 1970s was a...
Health Care at Risk
A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind...
Making the Most of Mess
Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies,...