Joseph Rhodes (Penn State): The Atheistic Voice. Trevor Pugh and Andrew Johnston (Sheffield): How Neoclassical Economics Developed Without a Theory of Money. A. Peter McGraw and Lawrence Williams (Colorado) and Caleb Warren (Bocconi): The Rise and Fall of Humor: Psychological Distance Modulates Humorous Responses to Tragedy. Alasdair S. Roberts (Suffolk): No Simple Fix: Fiscal Rules and the Politics of Austerity. Alan Levinovitz on the mystery of Go, the ancient game that computers still can’t win. Martin Krygier reviews The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights by Hans Joas. Prostitution and the internet: How new technology is shaking up the oldest business. You are not nearly scared enough about Ebola: Experimental drugs and airport screenings will do nothing to stop this plague — if Ebola hits Lagos, we're in real trouble. Anthony Gierzynski on how Harry Potter shaped the political culture of a generation: Our entertainment does shape our politics. Aki Peritz on what we can deduce about ISIS from James Foley’s beheading. From The AAG Review of Books, B. L. Turner reviews The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over the Earth's Future by Paul Sabin; and Robert Voeks reviews Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany by Robert C. Clarke and Mark David Merlin. Eve Epstein and Leonora Epstein on why your first concert is the greatest moment of your adolescence. Why do we listen to our favourite music over and over again? Because repeated sounds work magic in our brains, says Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis. The introduction to Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music by Nadine Hubbs.
