The new constitutional order

Property rights

cooperation, conflict, and law

The world of Prometheus

the politics of punishing in democratic Athens

For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about ...

Distant proximities. Dynamics beyond globalization

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post- Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began ...

Universities in the marketplace

the commercialization of higher education

This text investigates the commercialization of higher education and argues that this can only succeed in the short-term, while those universities that uphold academic values will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students

Trade and the environment

theory and evidence

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate ...

How the idea of religious toleration came to the West

Framing Europe

attitudes to european integration in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom

Tne nation-state in question

The state of democratic theory

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its ...

Postmodern moments in modern economics

Of all the areas of contemporary thought, economics seems the most resistant to the destabilizing effects of postmodernism. Yet, David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio argue that one can detect, within the diverse schools of thought that comprise the discipline of economics, "moments" that defy the ...

Farm to factory

a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution

To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the 20th century ...

Free trade under fire

The 1990s began with fears of a "great sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement and ended with opponents of the World Trade Organization taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle". Why has global trade become so ...

Food fights over free trade

how international institutions promote agricultural trade liberalization

This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international organizations alters the balance of interests at domestic level. It traces 30 years of US agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe.

Public goods, private goods

Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state ...

The limits of convergence

globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain

This work challenges the notion that globalization encourages economic convergence and cultural homogenization across national borders. A systematic comparison of organizational change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development ...

Governance in a global economy

political authority in transition

This volume presents 17 papers, each of which explores how global economic integration produces changes in governance. The book concludes that a new and intricate fabric of governance has been created, but one that fails to serve the purpose of beleaguered govenments.

Reliable partners

how democracies have made a separate peace

Democracies often go to war but almost never against each other. Indeed, "the democratic peace" has become a catchphrase among scholars and even US presidents. But why do democracies avoid fighting each other? "Reliable Partners" offers a systematic and definitive explanation. Examining decades of research ...

Interest and prices

foundations of a theory of monetary policy

With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money- growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well ...

The geography of ethnic violence

Identity, interests, and the indivisibility of territory.

The big problem of small change

The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading economists, Thomas Sargent and Francois Velde, examine the evolution of Western European economies through ...

Genes, trade, and regulation

the seeds of conflict in food biotechnology

Agricultural (or "green") biotechnology is a source of growing tensions in the global trading system, particularly between the United States and the European Union. Genetically modified food faces an uncertain future. The technology behind it might revolutionize food production around the world. Or it might ...