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Crime and Justice, Volume 34

A Review of Research

Edited by Michael Tonry

University of Chicago Press Journals, 2006

Since 1979, the Crime and Justice series has presented international crime-related research to enrich the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. Volume 34 covers criminal justice issues with a careful balance of research, theory, and practice.It offers an interdisciplinary approach to core issues in criminology, with perspectives from biology, law, psychology, ethics, history, and sociology.

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Gender and Empire, Volume 34

Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, eds.

Duke University Press

The early medieval world features many examples of empire-building and is noticeably marked by both imperial acts and (post-) colonial fantasies. Yet, these subjects barely register in contemporary analyses of national, colonial, or postcolonial formations. The aim of this special issue of JMEMS is not simply to rectify this omission-to fill in the missing evidence of the colonial and the colonized for the early medieval period. Rather, it will address how sociopolitical and cultural discourses of the imperial are formed and used in these centuries, and how such discourses might differ from the discourses of later periods, whether medieval or early modern. Articles by Beverly Bossler, Guy Halsall, Nicholas Howe, Clare Lees, Fred Orton, Gilian Overing, D. Fairchild Ruggles, David Townsend, and Ulrike Wiethaus cover a wide range of topics: reflections on what "empire" and "medieval empire" might mean, the formation of masculine identities in the late Roman Empire, royal mothers in the hybrid court of an Andalusian dynasty, Rome as capital of Anglo-Saxon England, the meeting of imperial Greco-Roman mores with Anglo-Saxon masculinity in "Apollonius of Tyre," what "style" can tell us about gender and empire in Northumbrian stone sculpture, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's strategies of the aristocratic female body, and the faithful wives of Song and Yuan China.

Contributors. Beverly Bossler, Guy Halsall, Nicholas Howe, Clare A. Lees, Fred Orton, Gilian R. Overing, D. Fairchild Ruggles, David Townsend, and Ulrike Wiethaus.

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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

Fall/Winter 2014, Volume 34, No. 2

Mark Allman

Georgetown University Press

The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles on a variety of topics. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship in the field.

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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

Fall/Winter 2016, Volume 34, No. 1

Mark Allman

Georgetown University Press

The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles on a variety of topics. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship in the field.

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The Marxist Premodern, Volume 34

Bruce Holsinger and Ethan Knapp, eds.

Duke University Press

In classic Marxism, the Middle Ages represent something of a paradox: both a prelapsarian pastoral in which peasants are "bound to the soil" with the "guarantees of existence" offered by feudalism, and an expropriative economy that adumbrates the most extreme exploitative tendencies of industrial capitalism. This special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is devoted to a general rethinking of the Marxist premodern: its contours, its literary and cultural effects, its theoretical afterlife, and its limitations.

Contributors. Andrew Cole, Valerie Forman, Bruce Holsinger, Ethan Knapp, Maura B. Nolan, John Parker, Stephen H. Rigby, D. Vance Smith

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2019

Volume 34

Edited by Martin Eichenbaum, Erik Hurst, and Jonathan A. Parker

University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020

The thirty-fourth volume of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual features theoretical and empirical studies of issues in contemporary macroeconomics and a keynote address by James Stock, a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2014. Chong-en Bai, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Zheng Song examine the “special deals” provided by Chinese local governments to favored private firms and their effects on economic growth. Matias Covarrubias, Germán Gutiérrez, and Thomas Philippon study the evolution of profits, investment, and market shares in US industries over the past forty years and find evidence of inefficient concentration and barriers to entry since 2000. David Debortoli, Jordi Galí, and Luca Gambetti assess whether recent economic performance was affected by a binding zero lower bound constraint on the interest rate. Michael McLeay and Silvana Tenreyro explain why it is difficult to empirically identify the Phillips curve (a key element of the policy framework used by central banks) using aggregate data. The authors suggest using regional variation in unemployment and inflation to estimate the relationship between these variables. Margherita Borella, Mariacristina De Nardi, and Fang Yang examine the effects of shorter life expectancies, higher medical expenses, and lower wages for white, non-college-educated Americans born in the 1960s on labor supply and retirement savings. Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo, Arlene Wong, and Miao Ben Zhang investigate the role that increases in the quality of the goods consumed (“trading up”) played in the rise of the skill premium that occurred in the last four decades.

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Osiris, Volume 34

Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science

Edited by Amanda Rees and Iwan Rhys Morus

University of Chicago Press Journals, 2019

The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of Osiris focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling—science fiction (SF), told through a variety of media—and the history of science.

The protagonists of these two enterprises have a lot in common. Both SF and the history of science are oriented towards the (re)construction of unfamiliar worlds; both are fascinated by the ways in which natural and social systems interact; both are critically aware of the different ways in which the social (class, gender, race, sex, species) has inflected the experience of the scientific. Taking a global approach, Presenting Futures Past examines the ways in which SF can be used to investigate the cultural status and authority afforded to science at different times and in different places. The essays consider the role played by SF in the history of specific scientific disciplines, topics, or cultures, as well as the ways in which it has helped to move scientific concepts, methodologies, and practices between wider cultural areas. Ultimately, Presenting Futures Past explores what SF can tell us about the histories of the future, how different communities have envisaged their futures, and how SF conveys the socioscientific claims of past presents.

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The Talmud of the Land of Israel, Volume 34

Horayat and Niddah

Jacob Neusner, General Editor

University of Chicago Press, 1982

Edited by the acclaimed scholar Jacob Neusner, this thirty-five volume English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi has been hailed by the Jewish Spectator as a "project...of immense benefit to students of rabbinic Judaism."

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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Volume 34

Mark Matheson

University of Utah Press, 2016

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 34 features lectures given during the academic year 2013 to 2014 at the University of Oxford; Stanford University; the University of Utah; and Yale University.

Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty Organization (formerly National Council for Civil Liberties)
“Human Rights as Human Values”

Paul Gilroy, King’s College London
“The Black Atlantic and Re-enchantment of Humanism”

Bruno Latour, Institut d’etudes politiques (Sciences Po) Paris “How Better to Register the Agency of Things”

Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University School of Journalism “The Turn Against Institutions” and “What Transactions Can’t Do”

Andrew Solomon, Author
“Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children”

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34

Edited by Robert A. Moffitt

University of Chicago Press Journals, 2020

This volume presents five new studies on current topics in taxation and government spending. Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker, and Jonathan Skinner explore implementation aspects of a Medicare-for-All program, which provides a uniform health insurance benefit to everyone, and contrast it with a program providing a basic benefit that can be supplemented voluntarily. John Beshears, James Choi, Mark Iwry, David John, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian examine the design and feasibility of firm-sponsored “rainy day funds,” short-term savings accounts for employees that can be used when faced with temporary periods of high expenditure. Robert Barro and Brian Wheaton investigate the impact of taxation on choice of corporate form, on the formation and legal structure of new businesses, and indirectly on productivity in the economy. Jonathan Meer and Benjamin Priday examine the impact of the 2017 federal income tax reform, which reduced marginal tax rates and the incentive for charitable giving, on such giving. Finally, Casey Mulligan analyzes the impact of the Affordable Care Act on whether firms employ fewer than 50 employees, the employment threshold below which they are exempt from the requirement to provide health insurance to their employees.

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Witold Gombrowicz’s Century, Volume 34

Tom Sellar

Duke University Press

Susan Sontag has described the work of playwright and novelist Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) as "sublime mockery," humorously depicting the aspirations and contradictions of his native Poland's tumultuous entrance into modernity. As part of the worldwide centenary celebration of the author, this special issue of Theater reassesses his place in the American and international repertory. Witold Gombrowicz's Century includes overviews of Gombrowicz scholarship and production histories by Allen J. Kuharski and Vincent Giroud, a photo-essay of famous directors' approaches to his plays, Michael Hackett and Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek's adaptation of Gombrowicz's short story about cannibalistic aristocrats, commentary with Polish director Anna Augustynowicz, and the writer's previously unpublished correspondence with Luc Bondy and Luca Ronconi. The issue also features excerpts from the forthcoming edition of Gombrowicz's Memoirs, never before published in English, and is illustrated with personal and theatrical photos from Yale's Beinecke Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts.

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