Normalizing Evil: The National Socialist Physicians Leagues

Retrospectives The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party

This feature addresses the history of economic terms and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Stree...

Identifying Characteristics of a National Socialist: Germany and Alfred Wittmann

Acknowledgements At this moment, I would like to thank my Honors Thesis Coordinator Dr. Stephen Fritz for his continuous support with my Honors Thesis. Throughout my undergraduate career, lectures given by Dr. Fritz have inspired me to engage in more research and to ask more questions. I would also like express gratitude to my Thesis Readers Dr. O'Brien and Dr. Achilov for taking their time to ...

20,000 leagues under the sea.

000 Leagues under the Sea

Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited t...

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

INTRODUCTION “[D]eath is different.” When used to punish, death taps society’s most primal urges. It is meant to be a deterrent for potential offenders, triggering in them the innate reflex for self-preservation. For society, it is meant to feed the primal desire for retribution. For these very reasons, it is often claimed that death is only reserved for the worst of the worst. However, in tryi...