In the search for explanations for three of the most pressing crises of the early twenty-first century (the housing meltdown and financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill, and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima), commentators pointed to the structure of the regulatory agencies charged with overseeing the ...
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As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure. Some claim that burdensome regulations undermine private sector competitiveness and job growth, while others argue that tough new regulat...
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Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal
execution of African Americans in the American South. The nine essays collected here look at
lynching in the context of world history, encouraging a complete rethinking of the history of
collective violence. Employing a diverse ra...
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