Birkbeck Law Press has recently published New School Professor Chiara Bottici’s book, “The Politics of Imagination.” Edited with Benoît Challand, the book, which can be found here, “offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination” by examining “how the power of imagination reverberates in the various ambits of social and political life:
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Julia Ott on CSPAN: “Financial Booms and Busts in American History”
New School Professor Julia Ott recently participated in a panel discussion at The Museum of the City of New York entitled, “Financial Booms and Busts in American History.” Speaking with Steve Fraser, Mark Gongloff, and Robert E. Wright, the event was played on CSPAN and is now available to view online here.
Julia Ott’s Book Published: “When Wall Street Met Main Street”
Harvard University Press has recently published New School Professor Julia Ott’s book, “When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy.” The book, which can be found here, tells the story “of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned
Gustav Peebles’ Book Published: “The Euro and Its Rivals”
Indiana University Press has recently published New School Professor Gustav Peebles’ book, “The Euro and Its Rivals: Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City.” Part of the New Anthropologies of Europe Series, the book, which can be found here, provides “a deep historical study of the welfare state and the monetary policies and utopian visions that
Sanjay Ruparelia’s Book Published: “Understanding India’s New Political Economy”
Routledge Press has recently published New School Professor Sanjay Ruparelia’s book, “Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?” Edited along with Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge, the book, which can be found here, “provides a detailed account of three [large-scale transformations that have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past
James Miller’s Book Published: “Examined Lives”
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has recently published New School Professor James Miller’s book, “Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche.” A New York Times Notable Book for 2011, the book, which can be found here, returns to the philosophical tradition of offering “arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life
Victoria Hattam’s Book Published: “In the Shadow of Race”
University Of Chicago Press has recently published New School Professor Victoria Hattam’s book, “In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States.” Awarded the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association, the book, which can be found here, recovers “the history of [the] entrenched distinction [between race and ethnicity] and the
Rachel Sherman’s Book Published: “Class Acts”
University of California Press has recently published New School Professor Rachel Sherman’s book, “Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.” The book, which can be found here, “goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited
Duncan Foley’s Book Published: “Adam’s Fallacy”
Belknap Press has recently published New School Professor Duncan Foley’s book, “Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology.” The book, which can be found here, “attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter” expressing Foley’s “belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is
David Howell’s Book Published: “Fighting Unemployment”
Oxford University Press has recently published New School Professor David Howell’s book, “Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy.” Edited by Howell, the book, which can be found here, “critically assesses […] free market orthodoxy” by using “cross-country statistical analyses and country case studies” through “leading economists from seven North American and European countries” who “contend that this