Research

Duke University Press has recently published New School Professor Janet Roitman’s book, “Anti-Crisis.” The book, which can be found here, “steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables,” using “responses to the so-called subprime mortgage

University of Pennsylvania Press has recently published New School Professor Victoria Hattam’s book, “Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change.” Edited with Gerald Berk and Dennis C. Galvan, the book, which can be found here, “intervenes in the lively debate currently underway in the social sciences on institutional change” and shows “how institutions inevitably combine order and

Merlin Press has recently published New School Professor Cinzia Arruzza’s book, “Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism.” Part of the Resistance Books Series, the book, which can be found here, provides “an accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement” though an investigation of “the questions ‘Why does

Cambridge University Press has recently published New School Professor and New School for Social Research Dean Will Milberg’s book, “Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development.” Coauthored with Deborah Winkler, the book, which can be found here, proposes “an institutional theory of trade and development” derived from their findings that “offshoring reduces employment and raises income

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:

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

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

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

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