A major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corporate capitalism, and innovation. Authors Duncan Foley, Thomas Michl, and Daniele Tavani present Classical and Keynesian approaches to growth theory, in parallel with Neoclassical ones, and introduce students to advanced tools of intertemporal […]
Time-series, or longitudinal, data are ubiquitous in the social sciences. Unfortunately, analysts often treat the time-series properties of their data as a nuisance rather than a substantively meaningful dynamic process to be modeled and interpreted. Time-Series Analysis for Social Sciences provides accessible, up-to-date instruction and examples of the core methods in time-series econometrics. Janet M. […]
Institutions of higher education are experiencing the largest influx of enrolled veterans since WWII, and these student-veterans are transforming post-secondary classroom dynamics. While many campus divisions, such as admissions and student services, are actively moving to accommodate the rise in this demographic, little research about the population’s educational needs is available, and academic department have […]
The use of the visual arts as an expression of identity is not a new concept. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians have long established the notion that material culture can express group identity through repeated codes of cultural symbols that form unique styles. Such styles can be recognized by cultural “outsiders,” and help contribute to […]
Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or “Sweeping,” has long attracted attention. Although it is among the best known of eighteen annual Aztec ceremonies, Ochpaniztli’s significance nevertheless has been poorly understood. Ochpaniztli is known mainly from early colonial illustrated manuscripts produced in cross-cultural collaboration between Spanish missionary-chroniclers […]
Among Southeast Alaska’s best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay […]
This thought-provoking but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. Detailing the numerous ways that our understanding of food has narrowed, such as its price per ounce, combination of nutrients, yield per acre, or calories, the book argues for a more contextual view of food when debating its affordability.
The world economy today is facing two major threats: increasing environmental degradation and a growing gap between rich and poor. Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that these two threats are symptomatic of a growing structural imbalance in all economies – how nature is exploited to create wealth. The root of this […]
For millennia, we have perceived water as an abundant and easily accessible resource. But water shortages are fast becoming a persistent reality for all nations, rich and poor. If water is so valuable and scarce, then why is it so poorly managed? Edward Barbier argues that the current water crisis is as much a failure […]
“Spool’s a year ‘written in threes’—its three word lines forming narrow columns or perhaps threads. ‘Thread’ is a word Cooperman explicitly associates with the lyric here and it is also Ariadne’s thread of rescue or at least return though, at times, ‘the tape is/broken now so / sick and sick.’ To change up the metaphor, […]
