By Sherman Cochran (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows … Continued
Edited by Robert O. Keohane (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Marc A. Levy The discrepancy between levels of environmental quality of rich and poor countries will continue as long as large per capita gaps in income persist. Institutions for Environmental Aid draws on research from economics, international relations, and development assistance, as well as the growing … Continued
By E. Roy Weintraub (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of … Continued
By Pierre-Joseph ProudhonEdited and translated by Donald R. Kelley (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) and Bonnie G. Smith This is a 1994 translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential and subversive critics of modern French and European … Continued
By Cathy N. Davidson (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) Closing explores the meaning of work—what it means when you have it, what it means when you do not. The story of the White Furniture Company—a century-old, family-owned business that was bought out by a huge corporate conglomerate and later closed—puts a human face on an economy in costly … Continued
Edited by Robert O. Keohane (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Helen V. Milner Rapid increases in international economic exchanges during the past four decades have made national economies very open to the world economy by historical standards. Much recent economic analysis has been devoted to exploring the effects of such internationalization on macroeconomic policy options, national … Continued
By Ruth W. Grant (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Incentives can be found everywhere—in schools, businesses, factories, and government—influencing people’s choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But Strings Attached demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power … Continued
By John D. Wong (NHC Fellow, 2021–22) Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting … Continued
By Linda Levy Peck (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade … Continued
By Jerzy Szacki (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Szacki defines liberalism in an Eastern European context – in terms of its historical background, the lack of a liberal tradition in the region, and its incompatibility with the communist state.