Jurgen Habermas has developed the theory of communicative action primarily in the context of critical social and political theory and discourse ethics. The essays collected in this volume, however, f
In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to themodern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, andhuge firms that bene
Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access topersonal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people'srelationships with so
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline oficonology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included suchcelebrated art historians of t
Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants
Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long Francaste
Readers of Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and his later social theory know that the idea of communicative rationality is central to his version of critical theory. Language and Reaso
translated by Paul Hendrickson Exemplifying a fruitful fusion of French and German approaches to social theory, The Power of Dialogue transforms Habermas's version of critical theory into a new &q
These essays from the journal International Security examine the effects of the nuclear revolution on the international system and the role nuclear threats have played in international crises. The aut
In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology mergedwith a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology becamean important par
This is the story of how one company created and codified a new science "on the run,"away from the confines of the laboratory. By construing its service as scientific, Schlumberger wasable to get the
The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries—most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union—present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these coun
In Music and Probability, David Temperley explores issues in music perception and cognition from a probabilistic perspective. The application of probabilistic ideas to music has been pursued only spo
Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain
Guns and Butter examines the causes and consequences of war from a political economyperspective, taking as its premise that a consideration of the incentives and constraints faced byindividuals and gr
Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access t
Consider a work from Shakespeare. Imagine, as you read it, being able to call up instantly the Elizabethan usage of a particular word, variant texts for any part of the work, critical commentary, hist
Essays by Patricia Phillips, Phyllis Lambert, and Robert-Jan van Pelt Melvin Charneyis an artist and architect from Montreal whose site-related installations, drawings, collages, andtexts have raised
How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyo
Today we have access to an almost inconceivably vast amount of information, from sources that are increasingly portable, accessible, and interactive. The Internet and the explosion of digital media c
Early Western music and the art music of the non-Western world both lack highly specified, standardized systems of notation. A serious impediment to the systematic study of early and non-Western music
The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social tiescreated by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutualobligation, has been applied
One of the most important forces driving economic performance in the United States and other countries during the 1990s was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a signif
The power of new medical technologies, the cultural authority of physicians, and the gendered power dynamics of many patient-physician relationships can all inhibit women's reproductive freedom. Often
Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the worldeconomy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition,Dalia Marin and Monik
Based on a National Bureau of Economic Research conference, Tax Policy and the Economy is a timely review of issues in the current tax debate. Focusing on the economic effects of tax policies, written
The standard version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade treats the factors of production -- land, labor, and capital -- as essentially analytically similar and symmetrical. In these s
"Human dignity" has been enshrined in international agreements and nationalconstitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians torespect human dignity and to
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health carereform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problemseem almost intra
Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on proliferatingfears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts asscientific truth, race and gender i
Young people's use of digital media may result in various innovations and unexpected outcomes, from the use of videogame technologies to create films to the effect of home digital media on family lif
The effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists. High unemployment in m
In Shape, George Stiny argues that seeing shapes -- with all their changeability andambiguity -- is an inexhaustible source of creative ideas. Understanding shapes, he says, is auseful way to understa
The six studies collected in this CESifo volume analyze the sometimes unpredictableeffects of public regulation on the labor market. Examining a wide range of policy interventions --from subsidized em
The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic t
In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple
The German translation of Darwin's The Origin of Species appeared in 1860, just months after the original, thanks to Heinrich Georg Bronn, a distinguished German paleontologist whose work in some way
Kosovo, after its incorporation into the Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia, becameincreasingly restive during the 1990s as Yugoslavia plunged into internal war and Kosovo's ethnicAlbanian residents (Koso
In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in li
