The laws of cool

knowledge work and the culture of information

Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of ...

Who should pay for Medicare?

Good news first? The good news is that Americans today are living longer, in part because of continual advances in healthcare. But the bad news is that with our aging population larger than ever before, nothing is being done to ensure that we can continue ...

Social Security Programs and retirement around the world

micro-estimation

The making of environmental Law

The unprecedented expansion in environmental regulation over the past thirty years--at all levels of government--signifies a transformation of our nation's laws that is both palpable and encouraging. Environmental laws now affect almost everything we do, from the cars we drive and the places we ...

The high cost of free parking

Free parking isn't really free. In fact, the average parking space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has diffused throughout the ...

Strong religion

the rise of fundamentalisms around the world

Philosophy in a time of terror

dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

German idealism and the jew

the inner anti-semitism of philosophy and German Jewish responses

Economic and financial crises in emerging market economies

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world. The crises eventually spread to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America, and impacted the economies of many industrialized nations as ...

Structural impediments to growth in Japan

As the much-lauded "miracle" of Japan's stunning economic growth has ground down into a seemingly unshakeable economic stagnation, analysts have focused their attention on the underlying systems that present obstacles to continued success. In this, the first book-length academic treatment of this important issue ...

Globalization in historical perspective

As awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade: its eleven papers explore how the process of globalization can be measured by ...

Bloody good

chivalry, sacrifice and the Great War

Memoirs of an unregulated economist

In this witty and modest intellectual autobiography, George J. Stigler gives us a fascinating glimpse into the little-known world of economics and the people who study it. One of the most distinguished economists of the twentieth century, Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982 ...

On the future of history

the postmodernist challenge and its aftermath

Lincoln's Constitution

In "Lincoln's Constitution Daniel Farber leads the reader to understand exactly how Abraham Lincoln faced the inevitable constitutional issues brought on by the Civil War. Examining what arguments Lincoln made in defense of his actions and how his words and deeds fit into the ...

Art of war

Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is ...

The internationalization of palace wars

lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American States.

Fair not flat

how to make the tax system better and simpler

Social security pension reform in Europe

Preventing currency crises in emerging markets

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report