It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Author(s): Thomas W. Gilligan, William J. Marshall and Barry R. Weingast Source: The Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Apr., 1989), pp. 35-61 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School Stable URL: http:...

Toward a More General Theory of Regulation Author(s): Gary Becker Source: Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 19, No. 2, Conference on the Economics of Politics and Regulation (Aug., 1976), pp. 245-248 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/725165 ...

Around David Henig's Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2020, paperback, 210 pages

This paper focuses on Warren Nutter’s The Extent of Enterprise Monopoly in the United States, 1899-1939. 2 This started out as a (1949) doctoral dissertation at The University of Chicago, part of Aaron Director’s Free Market Study. Besides Director, O.H. Brownlee and Milton Friedman were closely involved with supervising it. It was published by The University of Chicago Press in 1951. In the 19...

Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism. By Michael W. McCann with George I. Lovell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 504p. 35.00 paper. - In the Name Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization. Mark R. Reiff. Cambridge: Cambridge 417p. $120.00 cloth. Volume 19 Issue 3

* The books under review here include Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer, eds., Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999), pp. 288, $19.95 (paper); Pim den Boer, History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 496, $77.50; Cathy Caruth, ed., Trauma: Exp...