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This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each country are described, and particular...

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How White Activists Embrace Racial JusticeFire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. Drawing extensively on rich interview material from fifty activists, Mark Warren shows how white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice, not just because it is the right...

Malaria and Rome is the first comprehensive book on the history of malaria in Roman Italy. Aimed at an interdisciplinary readership, it explores the evolution and ecology of malaria, its medical and demographic effects on human populations in antiquity, its social and economic effects, the human responses to it, and the human interpretations of it....