Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-Three Nobel Economists (6th Edition)
Author: Roger W. Spencer File Type: pdf Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by twenty-three Nobel Prize laureates in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light on the processes of intellectual discovery and creativity. The accounts are accessible and engaging, achieving clarity without sacrificing inherently difficult content. This sixth edition adds four recent Nobelists to its pages Eric Maskin, who illustrates his explanation of mechanism design with an example involving a mother, a cake, and two children Joseph Stiglitz, who recounts his fields ideological wars linked to policy disputes Paul Krugman, who describes the insights he gained from studying the model of the Capitol Hill Babysitting Coop (and the recession it suffered when more people wanted to accumulate babysitting coupons than redeem them) and Peter Diamond, who maps his development from student to teacher to policy analyst. Lives of the Laureates grows out of a continuing lecture series at Trinity University in San Antonio, which invites Nobelists from American universities to describe their evolution as economists in personal as well as technical terms. These lectures demonstrate the richness and diversity of contemporary economic thought. The reader will find that paths cross in unexpected ways--that disparate thinkers were often influenced by the same teachers -- and that luck as well as hard work plays a role in the process of scientific discovery. The LaureatesLawrence R. Klein Kenneth J. Arrow Paul A. Samuelson Milton Friedman George J. Stigler James Tobin Franco Modigliani James M. Buchanan Robert M. Solow William F. Sharpe Douglass C. North Myron S. Scholes Gary S. Becker Robert E. Lucas, Jr. James J. Heckman Vernon L. Smith Edward C. Prescott Thomas C. Schelling Edmund S. Phelps Eric S. Maskin Joseph E. Stiglitz Paul Krugman Peter A. Diamond **
Author: Norman Ingram
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The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de lhomme is a significant new volume from Norman Ingram, addressing the history of the Ligue des droits de lhomme (LDH), an organisation founded in 1898 at the height of the Dreyfus Affair and which lay at the very centre of French Republican politics in the era of the two world wars. Ingram posits that the Ligues inability to resolve the question of war guilt from the Great War was what led to its declineby 1937, well before the Nazi invasion of May 1940. As well as developing our understanding of how the issue of war origins and war guilt transfixed the LDH from 1914 down to the Second World War, this volume also explores the aetiology of French pacifism, expanding on the differences between French and Anglo-American pacifism. It argues that from 1916 onwards, one can see a principled dissent from the Union sacree war effort that occurred within mainstream French Republicanism and not on the syndicalist or anarchist fringes. Based onsubstantial research in a large number of French archives, primarily in the papers of the LDH which were repatriated to France from the former Soviet Union in late 2001, but also on considerable new research in the German archives, the book proposes a new explanatory model to help us understand some of thechoices made in Vichy France, moving beyond the usual triptych of collaboration, resistance or accommodation. **
Author: Elana Shapira
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A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims of cultural authority. In this provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the evolution of the citys architecture and design from the 1860s to the 1910s. According to Shapira, these patrons negotiated their relationship with their non-Jewish surroundings and clarified their position within Viennese society by inscribing Jewish elements into the buildings, interiors, furniture, and design objects that they financed, produced, and co-designed. In the first book to investigate the cultural contributions of the banker Eduard Todesco, the steel tycoon Karl Wittgenstein, the textile industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, the author Peter Altenberg, the tailor Leopold Goldman, and many others, Shapira reconsiders theories identifying the crisis of Jewish assimilation as a primary creative stimulus for the Jewish contribution to Viennese modernism. Instead, she argues that creative tensions between Jews and non-Jews - patrons and designers who cooperated and arranged well-choreographed social encounters with one another - offer more convincing explanations for the formation of a new semantics of modern Viennese architecture and design than do theories based on assimilation. This thoroughly researched and richly illustrated book will interest scholars and students of Jewish studies, Vienna and Viennese culture, and modernism.
Author: Lawrence Berman
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Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 BC, before it was buried in a temple complex. Its adventures were not over after almost two millennia, the head was excavated by Auguste Mariette, a founding figure in French archaeology. Sent to France as part of a collection assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon, it found a home in his faux Pompeian palace. After disappearing again, it resurfaced in the collection of American aesthete Edward Perry Warren, who donated it to the MFA, Boston. Along the way, this compelling, mysterious sculpture has reflected the evolving understanding of Egyptian art. **
Author: Jeremy Black
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The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare Renaissance to Revolution provides a thorough introduction to the military and naval history of the years 1492 to 1792, covering the period from the European Renaissance to the revolutionary wars of the late eighteenth century. Detailed colour maps, battle plans, and colour and black-and-white illustrations combine with an authoritative text to illuminate developments in warfare on both land and sea. Particular attention is paid to the effects of European military expansion on the rest of the world including the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Special feature panels are devoted to key events, to the more complicated and intriguing military confrontations, to individual tacticians and to the key topics such as weapons, battle strategies, the rise of naval warfare, and the composition of armies. The book is written by a leading historian of the early modern period.
Author: David Petts
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The conversion to Christianity was a key cultural process that saw the transformation of Europe from classical to medieval world. The growth of the Church has been closely linked with the development of other key institutions, such as the state. It has also been highlighted as a factor in changing attitudes to issues such as the body, time and landscapes. While the study of conversion in the early medieval world has increasingly become a focus for both historians and archaeologists, there has been a lack of engagement with the methodological and theoretical problems underpinning any attempt to explore the archaeology of belief. This book, illustrated with case studies and examples drawn from a range of sources, including the Celtic west, Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, tackles some of these important issues. In particular it explores two under-theorised aspects of conversion the relationship between archaeology and belief, and an attempt to re-centre the pagan as a key element in the conversion process.
Author: Chuck Welch (Ed.)
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img src=httpsmonoskop.orgimages004Welch_Chuck_ed_Eternal_Network_A_Mail_Art_Anthology.jpg width=250 This book is the first university press publication in academia to explore the historical roots, aesthetics and new directions in a href=httpsmonoskop.orgMail_artmail arta. The essays of Eternal Network were written and assembled during the early 1990s by mail artist, writer, and curator, Chuck Welch. The edition contains forty illustrated chapters surveying an international community whose mailboxes and computers were a proto internet bridging the analog and digital world of art and communication. Eternal Network includes numerous photographs of mailed artifacts, performance events, congresses, stampsheets, posters, collages, artists books, visual poetry, computer art, mail art projects, zines, copy art and rubber-stamped images. The book is divided into six parts Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of a href=httpsmonoskop.orglog?p=11239Umbrella Magazinea, wrote an astute and prophetic review of Eternal Network in March 1995. Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker. With a Foreword by Ken Friedman Publisher University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 1995 ISBN 1895176271, 9781895176278 xxiii+304 pages
Author: Martin Amis
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Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike Larkin and Rushdie Greene and Pritchett Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker John Updike - warts and all. Vigorously zipping across to Washington, he exposes the double-think of nuke-speak in New Orleans the Republican Convention gets a going over. And then theres sport he visits the world of darts and its disastrous attempt to clean itself up dirty tricks in the world of chess and some brisk but vicious poker with Al Alvarez and David Mamet. Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at his electric best.
Author: Thomas Walsingham
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ReviewEssential. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award --ChoiceA rollicking, passionate, fluent work that captures nicely the studied informality of Walsinghams prose. (...) In short, this is a terrific translation of a very entertaining chronicle. College and university libraries and researchers tired of slogging through the Rolls Series Latin versions without an effective and accurate English version at hand should seriously consider adding this one to their collections. --Medieval ReviewIt will be enormously useful to students of the later Middle Ages to have a readily accessible translation. --Catholic Historical Review About the AuthorJames G. Clark is Senior Lecturer in Later Medieval History, University of Bristol.
Author: Anthony Alofsin
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A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the citys role in establishing the career of Americas most famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors. Wright denounced New York as an unlivable prison even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wrights work in the desert and in the organic architecture he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wrights life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy. Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wrights life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.