Colonizer or Colonized–Now Available
01/24/2012
Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture Sara E. Melzer 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4363-5 | $75.00… READ MORE
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Lord’s Rights and Peasants Stories–Now Available
01/24/2012
Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5… READ MORE
“We are all bound together in a single garment of destiny.”
01/16/2012
"There is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
01/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for January,… READ MORE
Becoming the People of the Talmud to Receive 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship
01/10/2012
The Jewish Book Council has chosen Talya Fishman's Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures to receive a 2011 National Jewish Book… READ MORE
The Worst Regulation in History? Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus on the Recourse Rule
01/05/2012
It may seem, then, that the Recourse Rule offers us no lessons. It failed only because of unavoidable human ignorance. The regulators did not anticipate a nationwide housing bubble. Prescience about the bubble was rare, and nobody can be blamed for lack of omniscience. Testifying before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair expressed regret for the Recourse Rule and admitted that regulators had not understood the risks. Neither had most investors.
However, the danger of a fallible regulator is much greater than the danger of a fallible investor.
A prudent response to our fallibility is to spread our bets. The Recourse Rule contradicted this principle by encouraging all banks to invest in one category of “safe” assets. Herd behavior is always a danger in markets, but this particular herd was corralled by the regulators.
This Month’s Podcast: Larry Silver on the Evolution of Genres in Art
01/03/2012
In the first Penn Press podcast for 2012, Larry Silver, Farquar Professor of the History of Art the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the evolution of pictorial genre printmaking and painting… READ MORE
Winter Meeting Wonderlands
12/23/2011
The Penn Campus is relatively quiet now that classes are over, but winter break doesn't mean that things cool down at Penn Press. Some of the biggest humanities and social… READ MORE
My Storm–Now Available
12/22/2011
My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Edward J. Blakely. Foreword by Henry Cisneros 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Lustre – Now Available
12/21/2011
Lustre Greg Daly 144 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 100 color illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2193-0 | $28.95 | £19.00 A volume in the Ceramics Handbooks… READ MORE
