Out of the pits

traders and technology from Chicago to London

From New York to Singapore, from Chicago to London, the trading floors of the world's financial markets are icons of global capitalism. Images of them are used on the news all the time--traders burying their heads in their hands when the market is down ...

Financial founding fathers

the men who made America rich

When you think of the founding fathers, you think of men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin - exceptional minds and matchless statesmen who led the colonies to a seemingly impossible victory over the British and established the constitutional and legal framework for our ...

American taxation, american slavery

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the war for independence may have been long over, but the true conclusion to the American Revolution was still being written. The choices in the 1800 election could not have been starker: Federalist John Adams prized the need ...

The economics of attention

style and substance in the age of information

If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With ...

The roman stoics

self, responsibility, and affection

Roman Stoics of the imperial period developed a distinctive model of social ethics, one which adapted the ideal philosophical life to existing communities and everyday societal values. Gretchen Reydams- Schils's innovative book shows how these Romans - including such philosophers as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Hierocles ...

Chicago

a geography of the city and its region

The geography of Chicago is central to its history and to its success as the nation#s now third largest metropolitan area. The first geography of the Windy City in more than fifty years, Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region is a ...

The global debate over constitutional property

lessons for american takings jurisprudence

Countries around the world are heatedly debating whether property should be a constitutional right. But American lawyers have largely ignored this debate, which is divided into two clear camps: those who believe making property a constitutional right undermines democracy by fostering inequality, and those who ...

The intelligibility of nature

how science makes sense of the world

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige. And while its pedestal has been jostled by numerous evolutions and revolutions, science has always managed to maintain its stronghold as the knowing enterprise that explains how the ...

Crime and punishment in Western Countries

1980-1999

The eight essays in this volume provide comprehensive, up-to-date summaries of cross national crime trends in Australia, Canada, England, Wales, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. This book is an essential resource for sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists ...

Deforesting the earth

from Prehistory to global crisis, an abridgment

Published in 2002, "Deforesting the Earth" was a landmark study of the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an abridgement, this edition retains the breadth of the original while rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership. Deforestation - the thinning, changing, and wholesale ...

Securing constitutional democracy

the case of autonomy

Famously described by Louis Brandeis as "the most comprehensive of rights" and "the right most valued by civilized men," the right of privacy or autonomy is more embattled during modern times than any other. Debate over its meaning, scope, and constitutional status is so widespread ...

Emerging labor market institutions for the Twenty-First Century

The inflation-targeting debate

Sloan rules

Alfred P. Sloan and the triumph of General Motors

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and ...

Hellenicity

between ethnicity and culture

Buffalo Bill in Bologna

tha americanization of the world: 1869-1922

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach ...

Interpreting State Constitutions

a jurisprudence of function in a federal system

Interpreting State Constitutions examines and proposes a solution to a problem central to contemporary debates over the enforcement of civil liberties: how courts, government officials, and lawyers should go about interpreting the constitutions of the American states. With the Supreme Court's retreat from the ...

Trade-offs

an introduction to economic reasoning and social issues

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, do not typically fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ transplants ...

The first Wall Street

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of american finance

When Americans think of investment and finance, they think of Wall Street - though this was not always the case. During the dawn of the Republic, Philadelphia was the center of American finance. The first stock exchange in the nation was founded there in 1790, and ...

Hayek's challenge

an intellectual biography of F. A. Hayek

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology ...