Oxford University Press

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In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic. What considerations, she asks, ought to guide the debates about such markets? What is it about a market involving prostitution or the sale of kidneys that makes it morally objectionable? How...

The Civil War and the World War II stand as the two great cataclysms of American        history. They were our two costliest wars, with well over a million casualties        suffered in each. And they were transforming moments in our history as well, times        when the life of the nation and the great experiment in democracy--government of...

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Many have long suspected that when America takes up arms it is a rich man's war, but a poor man's fight. Despite these concerns about social inequality in military sacrifice, the hard data to validate such claims has been kept out of public view. In The Casualty Gap Douglas Kriner and Francis Shen renew the debate over unequal sacrifice by bringing...