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Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence on JSTOR

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

📌 William Vickrey, 1996 Nobel laureate for contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information, published “Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence” in our Summer 1979 issue

WILLIAM VICKREY, Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence, Social Research, Vol. 46, No. 2 (SUMMER 1979), pp. 272-281

Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

📌 Trygve Haavelmo, 1989 Nobel laureate for pioneering what became the field of economic forecasting, early in his academic career wrote for Social Research a review of a book on the variate difference method (Winter 1941)

Trygve Haavelmo, Social Research, Vol. 8, No. 4 (NOVEMBER 1941), pp. 511-512

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

📌 Robert M. Solow, 1987 Nobel laureate for contributions to theories of economic growth, was a contributor to the issue dedicated to the book “The Worldly Philosophers” (Summer 2004); his article was titled “Even a Worldly Philosopher Needs a Good Mechanic”
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Current Developments in the Theory of Social Choice on JSTOR

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

📌 Kenneth J. Arrow, 1972 Nobel laureate for contributions to the general equilibrium theory, published “Current Developments in the Theory of Social Choice” (Social Research, Winter 1997, issue on “Rationality, Choice, and Morality”)

KENNETH J. ARROW, Current Developments in the Theory of Social Choice, Social Research, Vol. 44, No. 4, Rationality, Choice, and Morality (WINTER 1977), pp. 607-622

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

Social Research has been lucky to publish not one, not two, but at least five past winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. They were not only brilliant economists but also good writers able to reach audiences outside of their discipline. Their work is well worth revisiting. #nobelprize

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

In open access thru October: "A Conversation," Chinese artist and activist Ai Wei interviewed by gallerist Ethan Cohen in 2016.
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 4d

From the 2016 @socres.org special issue "The Fear of Art" gallerist Ethan Cohen interviews dissident artist Ai Weiwei

Read A Conversation with Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen for free via @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky

“Fighting for freedom of expression. I never thought that was just for me. I think that is for the condition of all artists and all human beings. This is the most precious right, to be ourselves and to announce ourselves as individuals, and that is best part of life."

A Conversation:
Ai Weiwei and Ethan Cohen

Social Research:
An International Quarterly
Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016

Read free thru 31 October 2025

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

Philosopher and literary critic Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 “for long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” We published his “Reform in China: The Role of Civil Society” in our 2006 issue “China in Transition”
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#nobelprize

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 4d

Former vice president Al Gore, cowinner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, delivered a keynote address, “The Politics of Fear,” at a conference organized by Social Research, later published in our Winter 2004 issue “Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses.”
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

Before winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk, best-selling Turkish novelist and screenwriter, published “A Private Reading of André Gide’s Public Journal” in our Fall 2003 issue on “Islam: The Public and Private Spheres.”
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#nobelprize

Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem on JSTOR

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

In 1937 Thomas Mann (the 1929 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature) spoke about the New School as the embodiment of “The Living Spirit” of intellectual freedom to pursue knowledge and truth, which, at that time, was being suppressed in Europe.
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#nobelprize

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

To mark this week’s announcement of new Nobel Prize winners, we’ll share work of some past laureates who published with us.

Baruch Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine) wrote “Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem” for our 1988 issue “In Time of Plague” www.jstor.org/stable...
#nobelprize

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG, Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem, Social Research, Vol. 55, No. 3, In Time of Plague (AUTUMN 1988), pp. 401-412

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 6d

“The Potency of Art” by Paul Chan (from our Spring 2016 issue) is in open access thru Oct. 31!
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 7d

Among the myriad ways art matters, writes Paul Chan, "the experience of art saves us from being conned"

Read Chan's The Potency of Art, from the Spring 2016 issue of @socres.org— free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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#AcademicSky

There are many arguments today about why art matters: it is a form that authenticates what is most human about humanity; it celebrates and affirms the diversity of cultures and identities; it upholds values of individual freedoms; it is a good pedagogical tool for teaching social and political ideas; it is a sound economic investment; it gives pleasure. Among these competing claims, I want simply to add one more, and a fairly prosaic one at that: that the experience of art saves us from being conned.
The Potency of Art
Paul Chan
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016
Read Free thru 31 October
Illustrated with the Spring 2016 cover of Social Research

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

5/ Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, “Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System” (Summer 2006, reprinted Spring 2024)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

4/ Albena Azmanova, “Free Speech or Safe Speech: The Neoliberal University's False Dilemma” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

3/ Judith Butler, “Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

2/ Lisa Anderson, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

1/ Nick Haslam and Melanie J. McGrath, “The Creeping Concept of Trauma” (Fall 2020, reprinted Spring 2024)
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Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry on JSTOR

Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

September is over, and we know what were the 5 most read articles in Social Research last month:

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

In 1988, a year before the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the Berlin Wall, he participated in a roundtable “Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe,” published in Social Research.

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VÁCLAV BENDA, MILAN ŠIMEČKA, IVAN M. JIROUS, JIŘÍ DIENSTBIER, VÁCLAV HAVEL, LADISLAV HEJDÁNEK, JAN ŠIMSA, Paul Wilson, Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry, Social Research, Vol. 55, No. 1/2, Central and East European Social Research—Part 2 (SPRING/SUMMER 1988), pp. 211-246

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

Writer, poet, playwright Václav Havel was #BOTD in 1936 in Prague.

One of the most important political dissidents of the 20th century, Havel later served as the first president of the democratic Czech Republic (1993–2003).
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 9d

To mark #WorldAnimalDay today, be sure to read Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka’s thought-provoking 2023 article “Doing Politics with Animals.”
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#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10d

Coincidentally, in the fall of 1990 Social Research published an essay by Jeffrey Goldfarb “Post-Totalitarian Politics: Ideology Ends Again” examining political and ideological realignments happening at that time and their implications for democracy across the world. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10d

Today is Unity Day in Germany. In 1990, following the fall of the Berlin Wall the year before, two parts of the country divided by the Cold War reunified. Die Wende, as it’s called in German, signified a turn away from totalitarianism and ideological division of Europe.
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