Oxford University Press

Reforms and Economic Transformation in India is the second volume in the series Studies in Indian Economic Policies. In this book, nine original essays pursue three interrelated themes. The essays in part I ask why the movement of workers out of agriculture, into industry and services, and from informal to formal employments has been slow. Essays...

The Case for Subjective PhysicalismRobert J. Howell offers a new account of the relationship between conscious experience and the physical world, based on a neo-Cartesian notion of the physical and careful consideration of three anti-materialist arguments. His theory of subjective physicalism reconciles the data of consciousness with the advantages...

The Roots of Partisan Warfare in CongressIn The Gingrich Senators, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents how former House members, who learned politics at the knee of Newt Gingrich, have been behind the transformation of the U.S. Senate from the venerated chamber of the 1950s into the partisan battleground that is regularly the scorn...

On Affirmation, Attachment, and the Limits of RegretThe View from Here is a study of our must fundamental attitudes toward the past. The book explores the dynamics of affirmation and regret, tracing the connections of each to our ongoing attachments. The focus is on situations in which our attachments commit us to affirming events or decisions that...

The Dynamics of Modern Financial SystemsThis book applies some of the lessons from network disciplines - such as ecology, epidemiology, and engineering - to study and measure how small probability events can lead to contagion and banking crises on a global scale....

Mexico, the United States, and the Road AheadIn her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil provides a bracing argument for the vital importance of Mexico to America's future, highlighting the overlooked revolution of prosperity and freedom south of the border....