The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colonialism in the middle ages

Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine ...

A corporate solution to global poverty

how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet, it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist ...

Sufficient reason

volitional pragmatism and the meaning of economic institutions

In the standard analysis of economic institutions - which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations) - economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead ...

Economic justice in an unfair world

toward a level playing field

Recent years have seen a growing number of activists, scholars, and even policymakers claiming that the global economy is unfair and unjust, particularly to developing countries and the poor within them. But what would a fair or just global economy look like? "Economic Justice in ...

Beyond individual choice

teams and frames in Game Theory

Game theory is central to modern understandings of how people deal with problems of coordination and cooperation. Yet, ironically, it cannot give a straightforward explanation of some of the simplest forms of human coordination and cooperation - most famously, that people can use the apparently arbitrary ...

The evolution of the trade regime

politics, Law, and economics of the GATT and the WTO

The "Evolution of the Trade Regime" offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary ...

Microfoundations of financial economics

an introduction to general equilibrium asset pricing

This textbook takes the reader from the level of microeconomics principles through to modern asset pricing theory. Yvan Lengwiler elegantly links together issues that have in the past been the territory of general economic theorists on the one hand, and financial economists on the other ...

How to cure a fanatic

a guide to method

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research - that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes ...

Law, politics, and morality in judaism

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular ...

Territory, authority, rights

from medieval to global assemblages

Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In "Territory, Authority, Rights", one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it ...

The judge in a democracy

Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even ...

Fundamental papers in Wavelet Theory

This book traces the prehistory and initial development of wavelet theory, a discipline that has had a profound impact on mathematics, physics, and engineering. Interchanges between these fields during the last fifteen years have led to a number of advances in applications such as image ...

Einstein's jury

the race to test relativity

Dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed to test Einstein's developing theory of relativity. Weaving a rich narrative based on extensive archival research, Jeffrey Crelinsten shows how these early scientific debates shaped cultural attitudes we hold today. The book examines ...

Devil in the mountain

a search for the origin of the Andes

The question of how high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth is one that has intrigued the world's great thinkers since the time of the ancient Greeks. "Devil in the Mountain" is the story of one scientist, author Simon Lamb, and ...

Reviving the invisible hand

the case for classical liberalism in the twenty-first century

An uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the view that ...

Law as culture

an invitation

Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. Often considered a distinctive domain with strange rules and stranger language, law is actually part of a culture's way of expressing its sense of the order of things. In "Law as Culture", Lawrence Rosen invites ...

The central Asian economies since independence

The 9/11 attacks, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the oil boom of recent years have greatly increased the strategic importance of resource-rich Central Asia, making an understanding of its economic - and therefore political - prospects more important than ever. In "The Central Asian ...

Judges and their audiences

a perspective on judicial behaviour

What motivates judges as decision makers? Political scientist Lawrence Baum offers a new perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based on judges' interest in the approval of audiences important to them. The conventional scholarly wisdom holds that judges on higher courts seek only to ...

The Ladder of Jacob

ancient interpretations of the bibliocal story of Jacob and his children

The biblical story of Jacob and his children must have troubled ancient readers. By any standard, this was a family with problems. Jacob's oldest son Reuben is said to have slept with his father's concubine Bilhah. The next two sons, Simeon and Levi ...

Religion and the Constitution.Vol.1: Free exercise and fairness

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be ...

Death by a thousand cuts

the fight over taxing inherited wealth

This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in ...

Economics and the Law

from Posner to Post-Modernism and beyond

This is an expanded second edition of Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema's influential book "Economics and the Law", whose publication in 1998 marked the most comprehensive overview of the various schools of thought in the burgeoning field of Law and Economics. Each of these ...