Searching for a different future

the rise of a global middle class in Morocco

Modern Inquisitions

Peru and the colonial origins of the civilized world

Beyond repair?

America's death penalty.

Imagining interest in political thought

origins of economic rationality

Hall of mirrors

power, witchcraft, and caste in colonial Mexico

The federal appointments process

a constitutional and historical analysis

Uncertain times

Kenneth Arrow and the changing economics of health care

Crafting gender

women and folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Banana wars

power, production, and history in the Americas

The rule of rules

morality, rules, and the dilemmas of law.

Indigenous struggle at the heart of Brazil

state policy, frontier expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988

The moral austerity of environmental decision making

Sustainability, democracy, and normative argument in Policy and Law

Neglected policies

Constitutional Law and Legal Commentary as Civic Education

The culture of cursilería

bad taste, kitsch, and class in modern Spain

The Spanish terms cursi and cursilería are not easily translated, but they refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without ...

How economics became a mathematical science

In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards ...

From interwar pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism.

Annual supplement to Volume 30. History of political economy.

"From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism" seeks to change assumptions about American economics during the transformative period between the world wars. The twelve essays by respected economists and historians collected here take a precise look at the mechanisms that brought about the shift from pluralism ...