Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Books

Books by Members of the Social Science Faculty

RALPH ADOLPHS
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

• Foundations in Neuroscience
  A full understanding of the biology and behavior of humans cannot be complete without the collective contributions of the social sciences, cognitive sciences, and neurosciences. This book, co-edited by Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Ralph Adolphs, collects eighty-two of the foundational articles in the emerging discipline of social neuroscience.

R. MICHAEL ALVAREZ
Professor of Political Science

• Point, Click and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting
  Co-authored by Professor of Political Science R. Michael Alvarez, this book offers a realistic plan for putting pilot remote Internet voting programs into effect nationwide. Such programs would allow U.S. voters in selected areas to cast their ballots over any Internet connection; they would not even need to leave home. If these pilot programs are successful, the next step is to consider how they might be implemented on a larger scale in future elections.

• Hard Choices, Easy Answers
  In Hard Choices, Easy Answers, Professor of Political Science R. Michael Alvarez and John Brehm develop a new theory of response variability in opinion surveys that, by reconciling the strengths and weaknesses of the standard approaches, will help pollsters and scholars alike better resolve such perennial problems.

KIM C. BORDER
Professor of Economics

• Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide
  Co-authored by Professor of Economics Kim C. Border, this book is intended for the student or researcher who could benefit from functional analytic methods, but who does not have an extensive background and does not plan to make a career as a functional analyst.

PETER L. BOSSAERTS
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management
Professor of Finance

• The Paradox of Asset Pricing
  In The Paradox of Asset Pricing, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management Peter Bossaerts argues that things are not that bad for asset pricing theory as long as one is willing to drop the untenable assumptions that markets have unbiased beliefs and the world is stationary - in other words, the "Lucas" model.

• Lectures on Corporate Finance
  Co-authored by William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management Peter Bossaerts, this course of lectures developed and taught at the Yale School of Management and Caltech introduces students to elementary concepts of corporate finance using a more systematic approach than is generally found in other textbooks.

COLIN F. CAMERER
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics

• Advances in Behavioral Economics
  Behavioral economics uses psychological facts about human behavior to inform economics. Co-editors Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin assembled important recent papers on behavioral economics, and added a new introduction summarizing the past and future of the field.

• Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction
  Axline Professor of Business Economics Colin Camerer's book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close the gap in game theory between how emotionless geniuses should play games, and how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games.

• Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review
  How do pathological gamblers perceive and misperceive randomness and chance? What are the causal pathways to pathological gambling? Co-authored by Axline Professor of Business Economics Colin Camerer, this will be the odds-on favorite for anyone interested in gambling in America: policymakers, public officials, economics and social researchers, treatment professionals, and concerned gamblers and their families.

JEAN E. ENSMINGER
Professor of Anthropology

• Theory in Economic Anthropology
  This volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Professor of Anthropology Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research.

• Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society
  Economists have devoted considerable effort to explaining how a market economy functions, but they have given a good deal less attention to explaining how a market economy is formed. In Making a Market, Professor of Anthropology Jean Ensminger analyses the process by which the market was introduced into the economy of a group of Kenyan pastoralists.

DAVID M. GRETHER
Professor of Economics

• Analysis of Economic Time Series, Revised Edition: A Synthesis
  In this edition which has been reprinted with corrections, Professor of Economics David M. Grether and his co-authors illustrate techniques of spectral analysis and methods based on parametric models in the analysis of economic time series.

PHILIP T. HOFFMAN
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science

• Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
  Co-edited by Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science Philip T. Hoffman, this volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century.

JONATHAN N. KATZ
Professor of Political Science

• Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution
  Professor of Political Science Jonathan Katz provides the first detailed analysis of how judicial partisanship affected redistricting outcomes and their legal consequences in the 1960's, leading to more comprehensively redrawn state legislative and congressional districts than at any previous time in our nation'½s history.

D. RODERICK KIEWIET
Professor of Political Science

• Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies
  Although a great deal is known about the United States Congress, the differences and similarities between it and the legislatures and parliaments of other countries have not been extensively studied. This book, co-edited by Professor of Political Science D. Roderick Kiewiet, fills this gap by presenting legislative research from a comparative, cross-national perspective.

• Stealing the Initiative: How State Government Responds to Direct Democracy
  By combining a general theoretical framework with empirical case studies of eleven recent initiatives and referendums, this text, co-authored by Professor of Political Science D. Roderick Kiewiet, provides students with a set of analytical tools and examples to help them better understand real politics.

J. MORGAN KOUSSER
Professor of History and Social Science

• Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction
  Blending history, political science, and law in this study of the legal history of minority voting rights, J. Morgan Kousser argues in this book that institutions and institutional rules – not customs, ideas, attitudes, culture, or individual behavior – have been the primary forces shaping American race relations.

R. PRESTON MCAFEE
J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management

• Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit
  Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise that underlies so many guides to business strategy, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management R. Preston McAfee develops the intellectual tools and insights needed to confront many marketplace problems.

PETER C. ORDESHOOK
Professor of Political Science

• Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
  Co-author Professor of Political Science Peter C. Ordeshook shows that the presence in the political process of agents who are �naturally committed� to the status-quo institutional arrangement can suffice to coordinate voters to act as if they support existing constitutional arrangements.

• Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy
  Written by Professor of Political Science Peter C. Ordeshook, Lessons for Citizens of a New Democracy provides an authoritative analysis of the foundations of democracy, with relation to the demise of communist ideology.

CHARLES R. PLOTT
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science

• Public Economics, Political Processes and Policy Applications: Collected Papers on the Experimental Foundations of Economics and Political Science, Volume 1
  The papers in this volume represent the beginnings of Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles R. Plott�s experimental research on public economics, public choice and political processes.

• Market Institutions and Price Discovery: Collected Papers on the Experimental Foundations of Economics and Political Science, Volume 2
  This outstanding collection comprises a superb selection of Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles R. Plott�s work in experimental economics, including papers which produce the first results in many areas of experimental economics.

• Information, Finance and General Equilibrium: Collected Papers on the Experimental Foundations of Economics and Political Science, Volume 3
  The seminal papers on which Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles R. Plott has founded our understanding of experimental economics and political science are brought together in this volume, reflecting the broad and overlapping nature of economics, public choice and political science.

THAYER SCUDDER
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus

• The IUCN Review of the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project
  Professor of Anthropology-Emeritus Thayer Scudder led the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Review Team in the Southern Okavango Integrated Water Development Project (SOIWDP). As recommended in this publication -- the project�s Draft Final Report -- the SOIWDP was terminated by the Botswana government, resulting in considerable controversy.