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Introduction

This issue and the forthcoming winter 2019 issue focus on the subject of algorithms. While it is rare for us to publish two issues that look at a single subject,...

CENTER FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP - UPCOMING EVENTS

Save the dates for the upcoming events on the Center for Public Scholarship calendar:

April 7: Public Voices 11 – Their America Panel. 6-8pm 55 West 13th Street

April 20-21: Invisibility – The Power of an Idea Conference. Lo...

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This issue explores the use of economic power as a political weapon to effect political or policy changes, primarily but not only when the actors are states. More than ever, sanctions are being used as a major weapon in the arsenal available to natio...

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This issue in the Transitions Series examines the nature of the changes taking place in Burma/Myanmar, questions whether more and different changes are necessary, and speculates on what the future is likely to hold.

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Ira Katznelson, Guest Editor 

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This eightieth anniversary issue of Social Research looks back at the most enduring works published in the journal over the past eight decades and their impact upon the academic world. This look into the past illum...

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This issue marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Heuss Professorship at the New School for Social Research. Named for Theodore Heuss, the first president of West Germany after World War II was permanently established in 1975 to foster a union between...

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This issue is based on conference presentations given at our twenty-ninth Social Research conference which addressed the complex relationships between food, migration, and immigration.

Table of Contents

Ebby Sharifi

Endangered Scholars Worldwide

The infor...

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Corruption is both a pressing contemporary issue that characterizes aspects of our social and political world and an enduring problem. It has been a corrosive part of political and social life for a very long time, and is an unfortunate part of our c...

Teresa Ghilarducci and Rick McGahey, Guest Editors 

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This issue features the discussion of economists on the limits and failures of economic analyses supporting austerity policies, showing how these policies hold back economic growth and analyz...

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This issue, following our conference on Giving, is intended as an avenue toward deepening our understanding of why we do give to others and why we should do so; what the roots of altruism are; how we can instill generosity in our young; what the reli...