Publications
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Failure by Design
(2024)
A new framework for studying markets as the product of organizational planning and understanding the practical limits of market design.
The Western energy crisis was one of the great financial disasters of the past ...
The Land Is Our Community
(2024)
A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold’s vision for human interaction with the environment.
Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, ...
Automatic Religion
(2021)
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, ...
How Does Germline Regenerate?
(2024)
A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology—the divide between germ and somatic cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications.
Scientists have long held that we have two kinds of ...
Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing
(2019)
In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social ...
Nuclear Minds
(2023)
How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing ...
Matatu
(2017)
Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus—colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are ...
Intimate Disconnections
(2020)
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional ...
The Contested Crown
(2022)
Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed ...
Building the American Republic, Volume 2
(2018)
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied ...