Oxford University Press

Theory, Evidence, and PolicyThe way in which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. Market Liquidity offers a more accurate and authoritative take on liquidity and price discovery....

Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese CultureLin Shu, Inc. explores the dynamic interactions between literary translation, commercial publishing, and the politics of "e;traditional"e; Chinese culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it traces how Lin Shu and a team of translators brought classic Western novels...

Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of UncertaintyComing Up Short illuminates the transition to adulthood for working-class men and women. Moving away from easy labels such as the "e;Peter Pan generation,"e; Jennifer Silva reveals the far bleaker picture of how the erosion of traditional markers of adulthood has changed what it means to grow...

Kevin Scharp proposes an original account of the nature and logic of truth, on which truth is an inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes. He argues that truth is best understood as an inconsistent concept; develops an axiomatic theory of truth; and offers a new kind of possible-worlds semantics for this theory....

A reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of 73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art....

A Biography of the Song That Marches OnIt was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a...