Social Research articles from March 1994

Social Research archives from March 1994

'Twixt the cup and the lip: mainstream economics and the formation of economic policy.
March 22, 1994... Several years ago I debated a leading neoclassical economist about economic policy before a group of Democratic reformers in New York City. Going first, I argued for a variety of progressive initiatives to promote more rapid wage growth, more...

Institutions, efficiency, and the theory of economic policy.
March 22, 1994... Introduction ECONOMICS is meant to be useful. Of course, some economics consists of proving theorems derived from extremely abstract models which seem to have no contact with reality at all. Equally, some economics consists of exercises...

Ethnographic representation, statistics and modern power.
March 22, 1994... MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN recently on how the anthropologist's experience in the field comes to be inscribed as authoritative ethnography. Although in this effort the rhetorical structures of ethnographic representation have been usefully explored,...

Concerning philosophy in the United States.
March 22, 1994... A nation can count itself lucky to have several thousand relatively leisured and relatively unspecialized intellectuals who are exceptionally good at putting together arguments and pulling them apart (Rorty, 1982, pp. 220ff). THIS happy...

Stress in the prison of its success.
March 22, 1994... Introduction GIVEN THE RATE of growth of research in the area of stress, even a partial view by necessity must be found lacking. To cover the field in its entirety is simply impossible. In addition to the sheer volume of output, there...

Women, women's history, and the Industrial Revolution.
March 22, 1994... Introduction IN WHAT WAYS has women's history contributed to our understanding of the Industrial Revolution in Britain? No, I will not argue here that women were among the heroic tinkers who invented the "gadgets" that revolutionized...

On aesthetics and its origins: some psychobiological and evolutionary considerations.
March 22, 1994... Introduction THE PRESENT ESSAY inquires whether a case can be made for an innate psychobiological disposition to respond to and produce objects and events traditionally associated with the aesthetic domain. If the presence of such a...

Diversity, democracy, and self-determination in an urban neighborhood: the East Village of Manhattan.
March 22, 1994... A NUMBER OF SOCIOLOGISTS have recently deplored the demise of a great tradition in urban sociology, the community or neighborhood ethnographic case study, and have urged a revitalization of this genre.(1) In this article I would like to...