http://www.sup.org/rss/economics.xml Stanford University Press - Economics RSS Feed Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:02:01 +0000 en-us Copyright 2017 Stanford University Press SimpleXML (http://www.php.net//manual/en/book.simplexml.php) webmaster@www.sup.org http://www.sup.org/img/icons/treeWhiteOnRed200x200.jpg http://www.sup.org/rss/economics.xml Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm—Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public. <i>Bernie Madoff and the Crisis</i> goes beyond purely investigative accounts to examine how and why Madoff became the epicenter of public fury and titillation. Rooting her argument in critical sociology, Colleen P. Eren analyzes media coverage of this landmark case alongside original interviews with dozens of journalists and editors involved in the reportage, the SEC Director of Public Affairs, and Bernie Madoff himself. Turning the mirror back onto society, Eren locates Madoff within a broader reckoning about free market capitalism. She argues that our ideological and cultural tendencies to attribute blame to individuals—be they regulators, victims, or "monsters" like Madoff—distracts us from more systemic critiques. <i>Bernie Madoff and the Crisis</i> offers fresh insight into the 2008 crisis, whether we have come to terms with it, and what we have yet to gain from the case of the century. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123 Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role of economic incentives in the bargaining around the country's nuclear program. Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland draw on an array of evidence to show the reluctance of the North Korean leadership to weaken its grip on foreign economic activity. They argue that inducements have limited effect on the regime, and instead urge policymakers to think in terms of gradual strategies. <i>Hard Target</i> connects economic statecraft to the marketization process to understand North Korea and addresses a larger debate over the merits and demerits of "engagement" with adversaries. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27340 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27340