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...document, Wheeler called himself the "co-author" of four books with English Professor Marc Shell that are either under contract or under review with several major university presses. Willis G. Regier, director of University of Illinois Press, said in an interview Wednesday that "Wampum and the Origins of American Money" is indeed under contract with UIP, but Shell is the only name listed on the contract for the work...
Wheeler also listed himself as the co-author of a book under contract and another project under review with McGill-Queen's University Press. But the press' marketing director Susan McIntosh said that Wheeler "is completely unknown to us," and that his name would be on a contract if he was a co-author for a project...
...author wants to draw the wrong conclusion from the fact that simplified models get things wrong (even dramatically wrong). No one denies that we need to better understand and communicate the limitations of data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential...
...right-wing primary challenger, talk-show radio host J.D. Hayworth, a man who speaks of the undocumented immigration debate as a battle to “stand up for our culture” and teach Latino immigrants “the right way to live.” The author of SB 1070, State Senator Russell Pearce, has been openly linked to white supremacist groups. In a maneuver that has little to do with the law or the economy, the Arizona legislature recently banned ethnic studies programs and barred teachers with heavy accents from teaching certain courses. In this climate...
...infamous e-mail—which suggested that African-Americans are predisposed to be less intelligent—two weeks ago, they should have been able to predict the blogosphere storm that would ensue. Shortly after Above the Law’s post, which attempted to keep the author of the e-mail and the individual who forwarded it anonymous, Gawker released their names and pictures to the public. Public Internet sentiment comes out strongly against Grace, a third-year Harvard Law School student, and calls are even being made for her federal clerkship to be revoked. We find these...