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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,...
Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States
On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric “reparations movement,” and they are united in their goal...
Fabricating Women
The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2001
Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and gender in the...
Dulcinea in the Factory
Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...
Owners of the Sidewalk
Security and Survival in the Informal City
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in...
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans...
Practical Utopia
Strategies for a Desirable Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
It presents concepts and their connections to current society; visions of what can be in a preferred, participatory future; and an examination of the ends and means required for developing a just society. Neither shying away from the complexity of human issues, nor reeking of dogmatism, Practical Utopia presupposes only concern for humanity.