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{"title":"Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History","authors":"","doi":"10.5860/choice.190016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.190016","url":null,"abstract":"The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert the worst. While their response prevented a financial collapse and catastrophic depression like that of the 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. and Europe still rose to excruciating high levels. Pain and suffering were widespread. The question, given this, is why didn't policymakers do better? Hall of Mirrors, Barry Eichengreen's monumental twinned history of the two crises, provides the farthest-reaching answer to this question to date. Alternating back and forth between the two crises and between North America and Europe, Eichengreen shows how fear of another Depression following the collapse of Lehman Brothers shaped policy responses on both continents, with both positive and negative results. Since bank failures were a prominent feature of the Great Depression, policymakers moved quickly to strengthen troubled banks. But because derivatives markets were not important in the 1930s, they missed problems in the so-called shadow banking system. Having done too little to support spending in the 1930s, governments also ramped up public spending this time around. But the response was indiscriminate and quickly came back to haunt overly indebted governments, particularly in Southern Europe. Moreover, because politicians overpromised, and because their measures failed to stave off a major recession, a backlash quickly developed against activist governments and central banks. Policymakers then prematurely succumbed to the temptation to return to normal policies before normal conditions had returned. The result has been a grindingly slow recovery in the United States and endless recession in Europe. Hall of Mirrors is both a major work of economic history and an essential exploration of how we avoided making only some of the same mistakes twice. It shows not just how the \"lessons\" of Great Depression history continue to shape society's response to contemporary economic problems, but also how the experience of the Great Recession will permanently change how we think about the Great Depression.","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84894215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governance of Megacities: Fractured Thinking, Fragmented Setup","authors":"K. Sivaramakrishnan","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199454136.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199454136.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This is an elaborate study comparing the five large metropolitan regions of India - Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, and Hyderabad. It traces the evolution of urban and metropolitan governance in India and examines the key aspects related to urban dynamics such as urban and regional planning, economic competitiveness, infrastructure and land management, environmental sustainability as well as the challenges in resource mobilization and metropolitan governance. The study is based on an extensive compilation of data on aspects such as demographics, economy, infrastructure, society, environment, political character, and institutions for governance. It provides an introduction to megacities in the Indian context and explains how urbanization was never promoted in the Indian Planning regime. While contributing greatly to the economic growth of the respective states and the country, the physical and demographic growth of these megacities has been accompanied by an ever increasing demand for infrastructure and essential services as well as social and environmental pressures. The governance and management of megacities has thus emerged as a formidable challenge to policymakers, administrators, and urban professionals. This book elucidates how urbanization was inevitable and was finally recognized as an economic and social reality by the Tenth five year plan. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780199454136/toc.html","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"201 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76985113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China","authors":"J. Wallace","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199378982.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199378982.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupting in urban protests that can destroy regimes. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped urbanization via migration restrictions and redistributive policy since 1949 in ways that help account for the regime's endurance, China's surprising comparative lack of slums, and its curious moves away from urban bias over the past decade. Cities and Stability details the threats that cities pose for authoritarian regimes, regime responses to those threats, and how those responses can backfire by exacerbating the growth of slums and cities. Cross-national analyses of nondemocratic regime survival link larger cities to shorter regimes. To compensate for the threat urban threat, many regimes, including the CCP, favor cities in their policy-making. Cities and Stability shows this urban bias to be a Faustian Bargain, stabilizing large cities today but encouraging their growth and concentration over time. While attempting to industrialize, the Chinese regime created a household registration (hukou) system to restrict internal movement, separating urban and rural areas. China's hukou system served as a loophole, allowing urbanites to be favored but keeping farmers in the countryside. As these barriers eroded with economic reforms, the regime began to replace repression-based restrictions with economic incentives to avoid slums by improving economic opportunities in the interior and the countryside. Yet during the global Great Recession of 2008-09, the political value of the hukou system emerged as migrant workers, by the tens of millions, left coastal cities and dispersed across China's interior villages, counties, and cities. The government's stimulus policies, a combination of urban loans for immediate relief and long-term infrastructure aimed at the interior, reduced discontent to manageable levels and locales. Available in OSO:","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75408317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working and living in the shadow of economic fragility","authors":"Marion G. Crain, Michael Sherraden","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199988488.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199988488.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 Christina D. Romer Response by Marion G. Crain Response by Steven M. Fazzari Response by William R. Emmons Response by Michael Sherraden Chapter 2 Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari Chapter 3 Melissa B. Jacoby and Mirya R. Holman Chapter 4 Timothy D. McBride Chapter 5 Sharon K. Long, Karen Stockley, Heather Dahlen, and Ariel Fogel Chapter 6 Marion G. Crain and Ken Matheny Chapter 7 Susan J. Lambert Chapter 8 Mark R. Rank and Thomas A. Hirschl Chapter 9 Joe Soss and Lawrence R. Jacobs Chapter 10 Gillian Lester Chapter 11 Jared Bernstein Chapter 12 Michael Lind","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84665947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Oxford handbook of applied nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics","authors":"J. Racine, Liangjun Su, A. Ullah","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199857944.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199857944.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This volume, edited by Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su, and Aman Ullah, contains the latest research on nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics. These data-driven models seek to replace the \"classical \" parametric models of the past, which were rigid and often linear. Chapters by leading international econometricians and statisticians highlight the interface between econometrics and statistical methods for nonparametric and semiparametric procedures. They provide a balanced view of new developments in the analysis and modeling of applied sciences with cross-section, time series, panel, and spatial data sets. The major topics of the volume include: the methodology of semiparametric models and special regressor methods; inverse, ill-posed, and well-posed problems; different methodologies related to additive models; sieve regression estimators, nonparametric and semiparametric regression models, and the true error of competing approximate models; support vector machines and their modeling of default probability; series estimation of stochastic processes and some of their applications in Econometrics; identification, estimation, and specification problems in a class of semilinear time series models; nonparametric and semiparametric techniques applied to nonstationary or near nonstationary variables; the estimation of a set of regression equations; and a new approach to the analysis of nonparametric models with exogenous treatment assignment. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/content/oho_economics/9780199857944/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Herman J. Bierens Marine Carrasco Jean-Pierre Florens Jiti Gao Christian Hafner Bruce E. Hansen Wolfgang Karl Hardle Daniel J. Henderson Joel L. Horowitz Arthur Lewbel Qi Li Zhipeng Liao Shujie Ma Esfandiar Maasoumi Enno Mammen Byeong U. Park Christopher F. Parmeter Peter C. B. Phillips Dedy Dwi Prastyo Jeffrey S. Racine Eric Renault Melanie Schienle Liangjun Su Yiguo Sun Aman Ullah Yun Wang Lijian Yang Yonghui Zhang Victoria Zinde-Walsh","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"8 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78093062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy: Two Essays on the Nature of Capitalism","authors":"J. Kornai","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199334766.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199334766.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"In Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy, Janos Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism. Kornai explains his view of capitalism as an economy of surplus--a chronic excess of supply of goods and labor. This environment breeds rivalry among producers, which in turn encourages innovation. Socialism, on the other hand, is defined by a shortage of goods and labor and excess of demand. Whereas socialism is slothful and imitative, capitalism is dynamic and progressive. The two essays of this book will explore these differing ideologies on macro and micro levels, ending with definitive explanations of how the systems work and how they develop. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/economicsfinance/9780199334766/toc.html","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85000843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ensuring a Sustainable Future: Making Progress on Environment and Equity","authors":"Magda Barrera","doi":"10.1093/MED/9780199974702.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/MED/9780199974702.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction The Environment and the Economy: Finding Equitable and Effective Solutions Jody Heymann and Magda Barrera Section 1: Moving Forward on the Environment and the Economy: Creating Jobs, Building Healthy Communities Chapter 1 The Essential Connection: Environmental Sustainability, Community Stability and Equitable Development in Struggling Cities in High-Income Countries Ted Howard Chapter 2 Community Action in Informal Settlements: Strategies for Improved Environmental Health and Equity in Low and Middle Income Countries David Satterthwaite Chapter 3 Achieving Environmental Equity: Race, Place, and the Movement to Build Healthy Communities in the United States Angela Glover Blackwell Chapter 4 Building Income and Social Equity through Environmental Sustainability: Lessons from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Mitra Thompson Chapter 5 New Skills for the Green Economy: Two Training Programs for Job Seekers in the United States Cosmin Paduraru and Kara Quennell Chapter 6 Green Social Entrepreneurship as a Poverty-Reduction Strategy: TIDE India's Use of Technological Innovation for Healthier and More Sustainable Communities Shannon Lockhart Section 2: Addressing Specific Environmental Challenges in an Economically Sustainable Way Chapter 7 Moving Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: How Can We Integrate Environmental, Health and Equity Objectives Globally? David Banister and James Woodcock Chapter 8 The New Challenges of Rapid Urban Growth: Imperatives and Strategies for Transport in India Madhav Badami Chapter 9 Healthy and Sustainable Agriculture: Working with Farmers to Transform Food Production in Latin America Donald Cole, Gordon Prain and Willy Pradel Chapter 10 Access to Healthy Foods in Urban Settings: A Comprehensive Strategy for Low-income Communities in Montreal Lise Bertrand Chapter 11 Water for Development: Investing in Health and Economic Wellbeing Globally William Cosgrove and Hakan Tropp Chapter 12 The Potential of Clean Energy for Equity in Remote Communities in the North Tim Weis Chapter 13 Remote Indigenous Populations and Climate Change: Reducing the Impacts on Health and Wellbeing James Ford and Peter Adams","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87102001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What's Wrong with Fat?: The War on Obesity and its Collateral Damage","authors":"Abigail C. Saguy","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199857081.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199857081.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The United States, we are told, is facing an obesity epidemic--a \"battle of the bulge\" of not just national, but global proportions--that requires drastic and immediate action. Experts in the media, medical science, and government alike are scrambling to find answers. What or who is responsible for this fat crisis, and what can we do to stop it? Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all? Why, she asks, has the view of \"fat\" as a problem--a symptom of immorality, a medical pathology, a public health epidemic--come to dominate more positive framings of weight--as consistent with health, beauty, or a legitimate rights claim--in public discourse? Why are heavy individuals singled out for blame? And what are the consequences of understanding weight in these ways? What's Wrong with Fat? presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we've come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. Saguy shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, she reveals that public discussions of the \"obesity crisis\" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. Showing that the medical framing of fat is literally making us sick, What's Wrong with Fat? provides a crucial corrective to our society's misplaced obsession with weight. Available in OSO:","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87338723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised","authors":"M. Katz","doi":"10.5860/choice.51-4557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.51-4557","url":null,"abstract":"First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all concerned Americans to reconsider the foundations of our policies toward the poor, especially in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Katz highlights how throughout American history, the poor have been regarded as undeserving: people who do not deserve sympathy because they brought their poverty on themselves, either through laziness and immorality, or because they are culturally or mentally deficient. This long-dominant view sees poverty as a personal failure, serving to justify America's mean-spirited treatment of the poor. Katz reminds us, however, that there are other explanations of poverty besides personal failure. Poverty has been written about as a problem of place, of resources, of political economy, of power, and of market failure. Katz looks at each idea in turn, showing how they suggest more effective approaches to our struggle against poverty. The Second Edition includes important new material. It now sheds light on the revival of the idea of culture in poverty research; the rehabilitation of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; the resurgent role of biology in discussions of the causes of poverty, such as in The Bell Curve; and the human rights movement's intensified focus on alleviating world poverty. It emphasizes the successes of the War on Poverty and Great Society, especially at the grassroots level. It is also the first book to chart the rise and fall of the \"underclass\" as a concept driving public policy. A major revision of a landmark study, The Undeserving Poor helps readers to see poverty-and our efforts to combat it--in a new light.","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75530987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy","authors":"S. Kamieniecki, M. Kraft","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199744671.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199744671.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the Nixon administration, environmental policy in the United States was rudimentary at best. Since then, it has evolved into one of the primary concerns of governmental policy from the federal to the local level. As scientific expertise on the environment rapidly developed, Americans became more aware of the growing environmental crisis that surrounded them. Practical solutions for mitigating various aspects of the crisis - air pollution, water pollution, chemical waste dumping, strip mining, and later global warming - became politically popular, and the government responded by gradually erecting a vast regulatory apparatus to address the issue. Today, politicians regard environmental policy as one of the most pressing issues they face. The Obama administration has identified the renewable energy sector as a key driver of economic growth, and Congress is in the process of passing a bill to reduce global warming that will be one of the most important environmental policy acts in decades. The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy is a state-of-the-art work on all aspects of environmental policy in America. Over the past half century, America has been the world's leading emitter of global warming gases. However, environmental policy is not simply a national issue. It is a global issue, and the explosive growth of Asian countries like China and India mean that policy will have to be coordinated at the international level. The book therefore focuses not only on the U.S., but on the increasing importance of global policies and issues on American regulatory efforts. This is a topic that will only grow in importance in the coming years, and this handbook serves as an authoritative guide to any scholar interested in the issue. Contributors to this volume - Richard N. L. Andrews is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy in the Department of Public Policy and in the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. William Ascher is Professor of Government and Economics, Claremont McKenna College. Walter F. Baber is Professor and Director of the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Long Beach. Robert V. Bartlett is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Political Science Department, University of Vermont. Amy Below is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public Policy, Oregon State University. Lori S. Bennear is Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. Christopher J. Bosso is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University. Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania. Steven Cohen is the Executive Director of The Earth Institute, Professor in the Practice of Public Af","PeriodicalId":19574,"journal":{"name":"OUP Catalogue","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84828001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}