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Trade-Offs
An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ transplants,...
Educational Goods
Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make decisions be trying to achieve?
In Educational Goods, two philosophers and two social scientists...
Capitalism Takes Command
The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general...
The Latest Catastrophe
History, the Present, the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country’s economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and across publications. Education Policy in Developing...
The Quality of Government
Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it’s clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on...
Under the Kapok Tree
Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb
explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Côte
d'Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights
the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by
the kapok tree planted...
The Open Mind
Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 to 1965 policy makers and social critics used the idea...
The Romantic Machine
Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising...
AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face
Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
AIDS and Africa are indelibly linked in popular consciousness, but despite widespread awareness of the epidemic, much of the story remains hidden beneath a superficial focus on condoms, sex workers, and antiretrovirals. Africa gets lost in this equation, Daniel Jordan Smith argues, transformed into...
England's Great Transformation
Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
With England’s Great Transformation, Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi’s landmark The Great Transformation. The conventional wisdom has been that in the nineteenth century, England...
Tamil Brahmans
The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic advancement and, in the information technology industry,...
Oil and Water
Being Han in Xinjiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For decades, China’s Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, much scholarly attention has been paid to state actions and the Uyghur’s efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. This has left the other half of the puzzle—the...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
In How to Humble a Wingnut, leading constitutional scholar, behavioral economist, and former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass R. Sunstein examines the unconventional impetuses behind human decision-making. Why it is that people often choose to behave...