Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce edited by Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin

Rebekah A. Taylor reviews Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce edited by Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin

Damages, Deterrence, and Antitrust—A Comment on Cooter

Melamed offers a comment on Robert D. Cooter\u27s article on punitive damages. Melamed relates the concept of antitrust to Cooter\u27s valuable insights

Inside the Economist's Mind: The History of Modern Economic Thought, as Explained by Those Who Produced It

This is the front matter from a book of interviews to be published by Blackwell. The book is coedited by W. A. Barnett and P. A. Samuelson. The front matter includes the Table of Contents, Coeditor Preface by W. A. Barnett, Coeditor Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson, and History of Thought Introduction by E. Roy Weintraub. The front matter highlights some of the more startling and controversial statements contained in the interviews and puts the interviews into context relative to the history of modern economic thought. The interviews reprinted in this book include: (1) Wassily Leontief interviewed by Duncan Foley. (2) David Cass interviewed jointly by Steven Spear and Randall Wright. (3) Robert E. Lucas interviewed by Bennett T. McCallum. (4) Janos Kornai interviewed by Olivier Blanchard. (5) Franco Modigliani interviewed by William Barnett and Robert Solow. (6) Milton Friedman interviewed by John Taylor. (7) Paul A. Samuelson interviewed by William A. Barnett. (8) Paul Volcker interviewed by Perry Mehrling. (9) Martin Feldstein interviewed by James Poterba. (10) Christopher Sims interviewed by Lars Peter Hansen. (11) Robert Shiller interviewed by John Campbell. (12) Stanley Fischer interviewed by Olivier Blanchard. (13) Jacques Drèze interviewed by Pierre Dehez and Omar Licandro. (14) Tom Sargent interviewed by George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja. (15) Robert Aumann interviewed by Sergiu Hart. (16) James Tobin and Robert Shiller interviewed by David Colander.history of economic thought, Samuelson, macroeconomics, microeconomics, policy, interviews

Congressman Robert Kastenmeier and Professor John Stedman: A Thirty-Five Year Relationship

The professional relationship between Congressman Robert Kastenmeier and law professor John Stedman is discussed. John Stedman was a positive influence on Kastenmeier\u27s thinking on patent and copyright issues

Collective and individual rationality: Robert Malthus’s heterodox theodicy

This paper forms part of a research project investigating conceptions of the relationship between micro-level self-seeking agent behaviour and the desirability or otherwise of the resulting macro-level social outcomes in the history of economics. I identify two kinds of conservative rhetorical strategy, characterised by reductionism, and by holism plus an invisible hand mechanism, respectively. The present paper extends this study to Malthus, focusing on the various editions of his Essay on Population and his Summary View of the Principle of Population. Like the reductionist (Friedman, Lucas) and holistic (Smith, Hayek) proponents of laissez-faire, Malthus, too, is a defender of ‘the present order of things’ and an advocate of dependence on spontaneous forces. Malthus starts out within the eighteenth-century providentialist paradigm epitomised by Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart, but he later abandoned providentialism, adopting a more reductionist standpoint. Like Smith and Stewart, he takes a conservative political stance and opposes radical reform of society. But in taking up the arguments of the leading reformers of the day, Godwin and Condorcet, he is drawn by the logic of his argument to a position very far removed from Smith’s stoic optimism. The weapon he deploys against the reformers is the principle of population, by means of which he is able to portray the present state of society as something natural, eternal and inevitable, something in common with the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Though a potent weapon against the utopians, at the same time the principle of population undermines providentialism In the First Essay he tries to mitigate this by presenting a theodicy to reconcile his theory with a version of providentialism, but within weeks of publication he begins work on its replacement, a secular and reductionist argument that individual self-interest can guide us to socially desirable outcomes

Modular symbols and Hecke operators

We survey techniques to compute the action of the Hecke operators on the cohomology of arithmetic groups. These techniques can be seen as generalizations in different directions of the classical modular symbol algorithm, due to Manin and Ash-Rudolph. Most of the work is contained in papers of the author and the author with Mark McConnell. Some results are unpublished work of Mark McConnell and Robert MacPherson.Comment: 11 pp, 2 figures, uses psfrag.st

Commensurated subgroups of arithmetic groups, totally disconnected groups and adelic rigidity

Investigations into and around a 30-year old conjecture of Gregory Margulis and Robert Zimmer on the commensurated subgroups of S-arithmetic groups.Comment: 50 page

Robert Aaron Gordon, 1908-1978

macroeconomics, rememberance, Gordon

Issues in Review: New Developments in Commedia Research: The Commedia dell'Arte: New Perspectives and New Documents

Introduction to "Issues in Review: New developments in commedia research", 141-240, guest editor M A Katritzky. The first of six articles in this section, it introduces the five further articles, by Maria Ines Aliverti (158-180), Rosalind Kerr (181-197), Erith Jaffe-Berg (198-211), Stefano Mengarelli (156-7 & 212-226) and Robert Henke (227-240) and reviews recent significant developments and publications in the field of commedia dell'arte studies