online archive
12:00PM
AUG 5 2007
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous: Michael Hiscox (Harvard) and David A. Lake (UCSD): Democracy, Federalism, and the Size of States. Roger D. Congleton (George Mason): Constitutional Exchange, Ideology, and Democracy in America. Mathew D. McCubbins (UCSD) and Michael Thies (UCLA): Rationality and the Foundations of Positive Political Theory. Mustafa Turengul (Dumlupınar): The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought. Lior Strahilevitz (Chicago): "Don't Try This at Home": Posner as Political Economist. Lane Kenworthy (Arizona): Jobs with Equality (Draft book manuscript). From Springerin, an article on the violence of participation: Spatial practices beyond models of consensus.
A review of The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity. A review of Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language by Marie McGinn. A review of Toleration: A Critical Introduction by Catriona McKinnon. What happens when a socialist applies the insights of Austrian economics? A review of Socialism After Hayek by Theodore A. Burczak. From Wired, an article on the Ultimate Diagnostic Device (by the way, you've got drug-resistant TB!) Research reveals why slim people dislike the overweight. Giving Science the Finger: Generalizations based on hand shape not only are formulated from small pools of data, but smack of pseudo science. A review of A Social History of Dying by Allan Kellehear.
A review of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. A review of Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina by Neal Thompson. Teaching to the Test: A review of Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade by Linda Perlstein. Iran's thought criminals: Kian Tajbakhsh - a scholar, social scientist and urban planner - is languishing in an Iranian jail. Why? A review of Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore. The Chinese have this map to demonstrate that the story of how the West discovered the World is only one of many versions of the very earliest form of globalisation.
