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AN I NTRODUCTI ON
TO M O R A L F R A M EWO RKS

J O N AT H A N B . W I G H T

Ethics in Economics

Homer Economicus

An Introduction to Moral
Frameworks

The Simpsons and Economics

JONATHAN B. WIGHT

In Homer Economicus, a cast of

lively contributors takes a field trip to
Springfield, where the Simpsons reveal
that economics is everywhere. By
exploring the hometown of televisions
first family, this book provides readers
with the economic tools and insights
to guide them at work, at home, and at
the ballot box.

In Ethics in Economics, Jonathan B.

Wight provides an overview of the
role that ethical considerations play
in economic debates. Whereas much
of the field tends to focus on welfare
outcomes, Wight calls for a deeper
examination of the origin and evolution of our moral norms. Integrating
contemporary theoretical and applied
research on ethics within a historical
framework, Wight provides a thorough and accessible outline of all three
schools, explaining how they fit or
contrast with the economic welfare
model. The book then uses these
conceptual underpinnings to examine
a range of contemporary topics, such
as the 2008 financial crisis, the moral
limits to markets, the findings of experimental economics, and the nature
of economic justice. Wights analysis
is guided by the innovative concept of
ethical pluralismthe recognition that
each system has appropriate applications, and that no one prevails.
280 pp., 12 figures, 2015
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EDITED BY JOSHUA HALL

Reinforcing the nuts and bolts laid out

in any principles text, this book is an
excellent teaching resource that will
also be at home on the bookshelf of
any pop economics reader.
Homer Economicus quenches your
thirst for learning like a Duff beer.
Through the lens of The Simpsons, a
reader will learn more about economics
is a few hours than any textbook can
possibly teach. My advice is that you
kick back, put your feet up at your desk,
and enjoy a donut or two while you
read. Mmm.
G. Dirk Mateer, University of Kentucky

256 pp., 8 tables, 13 figures, 2014

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Collective Action and

Exchange

A Game-Theoretic Approach to
Contemporary Political Economy
WILLIAM D. FERGUSON

In Collective Action and Exchange,

William D. Ferguson presents a
comprehensive political economy text
aimed at advanced undergraduates in
economics and graduate students in
the social sciences. The text utilizes
collective action as a unifying concept,
arguing that collective-action problems
lie at the foundation of market success,
market failure, economic development,
and the motivations for policy.
448 pp., 8 tables, 68 figures, 2013
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Entrepreneurial Finance

Strategy, Valuation, and

Deal Structure
JANET KIHOLM SMITH,
RICHARD L. SMITH, AND
RICHARD T. BLISS

Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy,

Valuation, and Deal Structure applies
the theory and methods of finance
and economics to the rapidly evolving
field of entrepreneurial finance. This
approach reveals how entrepreneurs,
venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations
as a framework to guide decision
making.
744 pp., 97 tables, 96 figures, 2011
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The Economic Approach

to Law

Second Edition

Predicting Presidential
Elections and Other Things

Second Edition

THOMAS J. MICELI

RAY C. FAIR

Designed specifically for economics

students, The Economic Approach
to Law, 2nd Edition, provides an
introductory treatment of law and
economics, revealing how economic
principles explain the structure of the
law, and how they can help make the
law more efficient. To that end, the
author focuses on unifying themes
in the fieldrather than exhaustively covering legal topicsand thus
provides a more analytical treatment
of the subject.

After many years of study, Ray C. Fair

has found that the state of the economy
has a dominant influence on national
elections. This new edition of his
classic text, Predicting Presidential
Elections and Other Things, provides
us with a look into the likely future of
our nations political landscapebut
Fair doesnt stop there.

The second edition includes current

research into the economics of common law areas, such as torts, contracts,
and property law. The revised text also
offers a new chapter that explores how
economics can be applied to anti-trust
law, as well as added material on intellectual property. This edition features
an expanded suite of exercises and
problems at the end of each chapter
to encourage students to do law and
economics.
424 pp., 24 tables, 50 figures, 2008
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Fair puts other national issues under

the microscope as wellincluding
congressional elections, Federal
Reserve behavior, and inflation. In
addition, the book takes on questions
of more direct, personal interest such
as wine quality, predicting football
games, and aging effects in baseball.
Which of your friends is most likely
to have an extramarital affair? How
important is class attendance for
academic performance in college?
How fast can you expect to run a race
or perform some physical task at age
55, given your time at age 30? Read
Predicting Presidential Elections and
Other Things and find out!
232 pp., 50 tables, 23 figures, 2011
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Introductory Econometrics

Intuition, Proof, and Practice

JEFFREY S. ZAX

Introductory Econometrics: Intuition,

Proof, and Practice attempts to
distill econometrics into a form that
preserves its essence, but that is acceptableand even appealingto the
students intellectual palate. This book
insists on rigor when it is essential,
but it emphasizes intuition and seizes
upon entertainment wherever possible.
Introductory Econometrics is motivated
by three beliefs. First, students are,
perhaps despite themselves, interested
in questions that only econometrics
can answer. Second, through these
answers, they can come to understand,
appreciate, and even enjoy the enterprise of econometrics. Third, this text,
which presents select innovations in
presentation and practice, can provoke
readers interest and encourage the
responsible and insightful application
of econometric techniques.
An ideal core text for foundational
econometrics courses, this book is
appropriate for any student with a
solid understanding of basic algebra
and a willingness to use that tool to
investigate complicated issues.
672 pp., 83 tables, 41 figures, 2011
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Textbooks at SUP..................... 2-3
Latin America in Focus............. 4
Economics and Policy............ 5-6
Innovation and Technology
in the World Economy........... 6-7

The Shared Society

Stanford Briefs...............................7

A Vision for the Global Future

of Latin America

Economic Sociology....................8

ALEJANDRO TOLEDO

Economics and Philosophy......9

Economics and Religion..........10
Recent Bestsellers....................... 11
Ordering Information................10
Examination Copy Policy......... 11

Latin America has gone through a

major transformation in the past two
decades. According to the United
Nations, with the discovery of new oil
and mineral deposits and increases in
energy exports, manufacturing and
tourism, Latin Americas economic
growth and development will only
continue, foreign investment will
increase, and the regions global influence will become greater and greater.
This is an historic opportunity for
Latin America. Yet, as Stanford economist and former Peruvian President
Alejandro Toledo points out in his
new book, The Shared Society, social
strife threatens to undermine its recent
economic and political progress. In
this book, Toledo develops a plan for a
future Latin America in which the vast
40 percent of Latin Americas poor
and marginalized are incorporated
into a rising middle class, democratic
institutions work more effectively, and
the extraordinary ecosystem of Latin
America is preserved. This is Toledos
vision for a just, sustainable, and
prosperous shared society.
296 pp., 37 figures, 2015
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Leadership Dispatches

Chiles Extraordinary Comeback

from Disaster
MICHAEL USEEM,
HOWARD KUNREUTHER, AND
ERWANN MICHEL-KERJAN

The 2010 Chilean earthquake

devastated schools, hospitals, roads,
and homes, paralyzing the country for
weeks and causing economic damage
that was equal to 18 percent of Chiles
GDP. This calamity hit just as an
incumbent political regime was packing its bags and a new administration
was preparing to take office. For most
countries, it would have taken years, if
not decades, to recover from such an
event. Yet, only one year later, Chiles
economy had reached a six percent
annual growth rate.
In Leadership Dispatches, Michael
Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and
Erwann Michel-Kerjan look at how
the nations leadersin government,
business, religion, academia, and
beyondfacilitated Chiles recovery.
They attribute Chiles remarkable
comeback to a two-part formula consisting of strong national leadership
on the one hand, and deeply rooted
institutional practices on the other.
Coupled with strategic, deliberative
thinking, these levers enabled Chile
to bounce back quickly and exceed its
prior national performance.
HIGH RELIABILITY AND CRISIS
MANAGEMENT

256 pp., 15 tables, 11 figures, 3 illustrations, 2015

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LATIN AMERICA IN FOCUS

Boom Towns

Restoring the Urban

American Dream
STEPHEN J.K. WALTERS

Greening of Capitalism

How Asia Is Driving the Next

Great Transformation
JOHN A. MATHEWS

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted
with an inconvenient truth: They
cannot rely on the conventions of
capitalism as we know them today.
Western industrialism has achieved
miracles, promoting unprecedented
levels of prosperity and raising hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet,
if allowed to proceed unencumbered,
this paradigm will do irreversible
harm to the planet.
By necessity, a new approach to environmentally conscious development
is already emerging in the East, with
China leading the way. Positioning its
argument against zero-growth advocates and free-market environmentalists, Greening of Capitalism charts
this transformation and sketches out
a framework for more sustainable
capitalism. Mathews considers core
debates over national security, international relations, and economic policy,
ultimately addressing the question of
whether these measures will be farreaching or timely enough to prevent
further damage.

American cities, once economic

and social launch pads for
their residents, are all too
often plagued by poverty and
decay. One need only to look
at the ruins of Detroit to see
how far some once-great cities
have fallen, or at Boston and
San Francisco for evidence
that such decline is reversible.
In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K.
Walters diagnoses the root
causes of urban decline in order
to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again.
Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense
accumulations of capital in all of its formsplaces that attract people
by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce
property rights in order to prevent the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns
and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows
how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more
harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies
to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities
and needlessly limit their residents opportunities. With its fresh
interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom
Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities
and a program for their restoration.
Stephen Walters is a rarity. Hes an economist with a strong sense of
history. Boom Towns shows how a healthy respect for property rights
has contributed to the prosperity of American cities. And then, it explains how the erosion of those rights helped produce the policies that
bankrupted Detroit and that have led to widespread urban decline.
Fred Siegel,
author of The Revolt Against the Masses and
The Future Once Happened Here
224 pp., 1 table, 2 figures, 2014
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368 pp., 1 table, 45 figures, 4 maps, 2014

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ECONOMICS AND POLICY

NOW IN PAPERBACK

Madmen, Intellectuals,
and Academic Scribblers

The Economic Engine of

Political Change

WAYNE A. LEIGHTON AND

EDWARD J. LPEZ

Irrationality in Health Care

What Behavioral Economics

Reveals About What We Do
and Why
DOUGLAS E. HOUGH

The health care industry in the United

States is peculiar. We spend close
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic
to 18 percent of our GDP on health
Scribblers presents a simple, ecocare, and yet we still lack consensus
nomic framework for understanding
on issues such as the value of mandathe systematic causes of political change. tory health insurance or physician
Leighton and Lpez take up three
checklists. Drawing on behavioral
fundamental, interrelated questions:
economics as an alternative to the
Why do democracies generate policies
standard tools of health economics,
that impose net costs on society? Why
author Douglas E. Hough seeks to
do such policies persist over long
more clearly diagnose the ills of health
periods of time, even if they are known
care today.
to be socially wasteful and better
A behavioral perspective makes sense
alternatives exist? And, why do certain
wasteful policies eventually get repealed, of key contradictionsfrom the
seemingly irrational choices that we
while others endure?
sometimes make as patients, to the
The authors examine these questions
incongruous behavior of physicians,
through familiar policies in contempoto the morass of the long-lived debate
rary American politics, but also draw on surrounding reform. With the new
examples from around the world and
health care law in effect, it is more
throughout history.
important than ever that consumers,
health care industry leaders, and the
Assuming that incentives drive peoples
decisions, the book matches up three key policymakers who are governing
change reckon with the power and
ingredientsideas, rules, and incensources of our behavior when it comes
tiveswith the characters who make
to health.
political waves: madmen in authority
(such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and
312 pp., 2013
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Stewart and George Will), and academic
scribblers (in the vein of Friedrich Hayek
and John Maynard Keynes).
224 pp., 5 figures, 1 table, 2012
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ECONOMICS AND POLICY

Public Universities and

Regional Growth

Insights from the University

of California

EDITED BY MARTIN KENNEY AND

DAVID C. MOWERY

Public Universities and Regional

Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University
of California campuses. Each chapter
presents a deep, historical analysis
that traces the dynamic interaction
between particular campuses and
regional firms in industries that range
from biotechnology, scientific instruments, and semiconductors, to software, wine, and wireless technologies.
The book provides a uniquely
comprehensive and cohesive look at
the University of Californias complex
relationships with regional entrepreneurs. Thoughtful and distinctive,
this book illustrates the potential for
universities to drive knowledge-based
growth while revealing the California
system as a uniquely powerful engine
for innovation across its home state.
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN
THE WORLD ECONOMY

272 pp., 13 tables, 11 figures, 1 map, 2014

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Ivory Tower and Industrial

Innovation

University-Industry Technology
Transfer Before and After the
Bayh-Dole Act
DAVID C. MOWERY,
RICHARD R. NELSON,
BHAVEN N. SAMPAT, AND
ARVIDS A. ZIEDONIS

Since the early 1980s, universities

in the United States have greatly
expanded their patenting and licensing
activities. The Congressional Joint
Economic Committee, among other
authorities, have argued that this surge
contributed to the economic boom of
the 1990s. And, many observers have
attributed this trend to the Bayh-Dole
Act of 1980. Using quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, this book
tests that conventional wisdom and
assesses the effects of the Act, examining the diverse channels through
which commercialization has occurred
over the 20th century and since the
passage of the Act.
This book addresses an important and
timely topic which has garnered substantial interest among policymakers, academic analysts, and the broader scientific
and technical community. It reflects over
a decade of careful qualitative and quantitative research by these authors.
Scott Stern,
MIT Sloan School of Management
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN
THE WORLD ECONOMY

How Culture Shapes the

Climate Change Debate
ANDREW J. HOFFMAN

The Design of Insight

How to Solve Any Business

Problem

Though the scientific community

largely agrees that climate change is
underway, debates about this issue
remain fiercely polarized. These
conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides
try to achieve victory through playing
on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At
its heart, this split no longer concerns
carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases,
or climate modeling; rather, it is
the product of contrasting, deeply
entrenched worldviews. This brief
examines what causes people to reject
or accept the scientific consensus on
climate change. Synthesizing evidence
from sociology, psychology, and
political science, Andrew J. Hoffman
lays bare the opposing cultural lenses
through which science is interpreted.
He draws lessons from major cultural
shifts in the past to engender a better
understanding of the problem and
motivate the public to take action.
He makes a powerful case for a more
scientifically literate public, a more
socially engaged scientific community, and a more thoughtful mode of
public discourse.

The Epistemic Structure and

Dynamics of Social Networks

112 pp., 1 figure, 2 illustrations, 2015

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MIHNEA C. MOLDOVEANU AND

JOEL A.C. BAUM

MIHNEA MOLDOVEANU AND

OLIVIER LECLERC

Familiar modes of problem solving

may be efficient, but they often prevent
us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems. To
create meaningful change, we must
train ourselves to discover previously unseen variables in day-to-day
challenges. The Design of Insight is
intended to be a personal problemsolving platform for decision makers
and advisors who seek answers to critical business questions. It introduces an
approach that uses multiple problemsolving languages to systematically
expand our understanding of problem
framing and high quality problem
solving. This brief is a resource for
enriching and implementing thoughtful management practices.
128 pp., 31 figures, 2 illustrations, 2015
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ALSO OF INTEREST

Epinets

200 pp., 2014

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264 pp., 24 tables, 28 figures, 2004

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LOGY IN THE WORLD ECONOMY

STANFORD BRIEFS

All I Want Is a Job!

Unemployed Women Navigating

the Public Workforce System
MARY GATTA

All I Want Is a Job! puts a human face

on workforce development policy.
An ethnographic sociologist, Mary
Gatta went undercover as a client in a
New Jersey One-Stop Career Center.
One-Stop Centers, developed as part
of the federal Workforce Investment
Act, are supposed to be an unemployed
workers go-to resource on the way to
re-employment. But, how well do these
centers function? With swarms of new
clients coming through their doors, are
they fit for the task of pairing Americas
workforce with new jobs?
Weaving together her own account
with interviews of jobless women and
caseworkers, Gatta offers a revealing
glimpse of the toll that unemployment
takes and the realities of social policy.
Womenboth educated and lowskilledare particularly vulnerable
in the current economy. Drawing
together tales from the frontlines,
Gatta highlights the promise and
weaknesses of One-Stop Career
Centers, recommending key shifts in
workforce policy.
168 pp., 2014
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ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY

Plastic Money

Constructing Markets for Credit

Cards in Eight Postcommunist
Countries

AKOS RONA-TAS AND ALYA GUSEVA

We take our ability to pay with plastic

for granted. Yet, building credit card
markets requires solutions to difficult
puzzles. For instance, how do banks
learn to select reliable cardholders,
convince people to pay with cards, and
make card acceptance appealing to
retailers?
Plastic Money tells the story of how
banks overcame these and other quandaries as they constructed markets for
credit cards in eight postcommunist
countries. We know a lot about how
markets work once they are built,
but this book explains how markets
are engineered from the ground up.
Drawing on extensive interviews and
fieldwork, the authors chronicle how
banks generated desire for their new
product in the midst of a transition
from communism to capitalism.
Plastic Money chronicles an intriguing
chapter in the global spread of the
credit card concept, and of consumer
culture more generally.
344 pp., 33 figures, 2014
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Architects of Austerity

International Finance and the

Politics of Growth
AARON MAJOR

Architects of Austerity argues that the

seeds of neoliberal politics were sown
in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting
that the postwar era was less socially
democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical
analysis of economic policy in the
United States, the United Kingdom,
and Italy during the early 1960s. In
each of these cases, domestic politics
shifted to the left and national governments repudiated the conservative
economic policies of the past, promising a new way forward. Yet, these
social democratic experiments were
short-lived and deeply compromised.
Studies of social welfare policy have
emphasized domestic factors. However,
international social forces profoundly
shaped national decisions in these
cases. Taking a page from history,
Architects of Austerity encourages us
to critically consider the power that
we vest in public financial authorities,
which have play an ever larger role in
international economic regulation.
264 pp., 1 table, 9 figures, 2014
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The Other Adam Smith

MIKE HILL AND WARREN MONTAG

The Other Adam Smith represents the

next wave of critical thinking about
the still under-examined work of this
paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker.
Not simply another book about Adam
Smith, it allows and even necessitates
his inclusion in the realm of theory in
the broadest sense. Moving beyond his
usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill and Warren Montag
take seriously Smiths entire corpus, his
writing on knowledge, affect, sociability
and government, and political economy,
as constituting a comprehensive system
of thought. We meet not just Smith the
economist, but Smith the philosopher,
Smith the literary critic, Smith the
historian, and Smith the anthropologist.
This other Adam Smith, far from being
localized in the history of eighteenthcentury economic thought or ideas,
stands at the center of the most vibrant
and contentious debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
416 pp., 2014
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The Emotional Logic

of Capitalism

The Specter of Capital

JOSEPH VOGL

What Progressives Have Missed

MARTIJN KONINGS

The capitalist market, progressives

bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts
social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract
utilitarian rationality. But what if such
hallowed critiques are completely
misleading? This book argues that the
production of new sources of faith and
enchantment is crucial to the dynamics
of the capitalist economy. Distinctively
secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a
binding force that was not available to
more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through
an engagement with the semiotics of
money and the genealogy of economy,
Martijn Konings uncovers capitalisms
emotional and theological content in
order to understand the paradoxical
sources of cohesion and legitimacy
that it commands. In developing this
perspective, he draws on pragmatist
thought to rework and revitalize the
Marxist critique of capitalism.
184 pp., 2015
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In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis

of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl
aims to demystify finance capitalism
by tracing the historical stages through
which the financial market achieved
its current autonomy. Classical and
neoclassical economic theorists have
played a decisive role here. Ignoring
early warnings about the instability of
speculative finance markets, they have
persisted in their belief in the inherent
equilibrium of the market, describing
even major crises as mere aberrations or
adjustments and rationalizing dubious
financial practices that escalate risk
while seeking to manage it.
The market knows best: this is a
secular version of Adam Smiths faith
in the markets invisible hand, his
economic interpretation of eighteenthcentury providentialist theodicy,
which subsequently hardened into an
oikodicy, an unquestioning belief in the
self-regulating beneficence of market
forces. Vogl shows that financial theory,
assisted by mathematical modeling and
digital technology, itself operates as a
hidden hand, pushing economic reality
into unknown territory.
CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT

168 pp., 2014

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ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY

Judaism in
Transition

How Economic Choices

Shape Religious Tradition
CARMEL U. CHISWICK

At the core of Judaism stands a

body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia.
Yet, the practice of these rituals
has varied widely across historical
and cultural contexts. In Judaism
in Transition, Carmel U. Chiswick
draws on her Jewish upbringing,
her journey as a Jewish parent,
and her perspective as an economist to consider how incentives
affect the ways that mainstream
American Jews have navigated and continue to manage the conflicting
demands of everyday life and religious observance. Arguing that
economics is a blind spot in our understanding of religion, Chiswick
blends her personal experiences with economic analysis to illustrate
the cost of Jewish participation.
Nobody but Carmel Chiswick could write this book. It has the mark of
maturity and was obviously written by someone who has spent a lifetime
thinking about economics and religion.
Larry Iannaconne,
Director, Center for the Economic Study of Religion, Chapman University
248 pp., 2 tables, 8 figures, 2014
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Why Humanitarian Action Fails

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