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    November 27

    平凡一天

    今天看到一只野狗咬死猫。梦魇一般。

     

    跟一位律师朋友聊天,与这位前天涯论坛最骨灰级的网友一同分享她现在的激情与快乐。

     

    认识我的人都知道我粗心。亲近我的人都知道我喜欢丢东西。

    从大学懂事以来,我丢失的东西开始从物质用品变为了精神用品。

    我曾经在大四考验的最关键时期丢失了8100p B6开本的笔记本,没本至少也有5万字,不知图书馆哪个人暗恋我要偷就偷全部。那是我在特定的时间记录下来的自己的思想,现在依然耿耿于怀,但又觉得是一种冥冥中注定。

     

    2年后,故伎重演。红茶打翻在电脑里,硬盘全部毁坏,从电路板到盘体,恢复数据要5000,可以重新买个电脑了。2年来所有的积累,看过的网站,挡下来的资料,做的媒体分析,别人替我拍的照片,所有的培训资料,统统消失。只好重新建立。

     

    悲痛同时,突然间翻看大二时的课堂笔记,第一页上写着How to be a well-educated student?

    接下来是一首顾城的诗:树枝想去撕裂天空,却只戳成了几个窟窿,他透出了天外的光亮,人们把他叫做星星和月亮。

     

    第二页写了一段读书笔记,刘小枫,《我们这一代的怕和爱》

    我们谈情说爱,我们担惊受怕

    但其实,就像我们已经越来越不知道怎样去爱一样,我们还远没有学会怎样去怕

     

    点评:刘小枫把“羞涩与虔诚”的奥义写进理想主义的词典,新奇、优雅之外,至今,我们还没有找到解读的勇气

     

    对于一个人或一代人的精神成长经历而言,16年的时间的确太短——幸亏我们没有以此为理由拒绝成长。

     

    但就在这短短的16年中,我们至少已经开始害怕,因为恐惧,因为脆弱,因为烦恼,因为不知所措。

     

    我们腻味空洞的理想但我们贪恋物质。

    我们看透欺世的好言但我们忘记洗脸心灵。

    我们开始为我们有限的拥有提心吊胆,

    但我们还是没有学会为我们不曾有过而应该有的无限虚无而感到敬畏——这一点,刘小枫早就料到了,所以他说:“我不抱希望。”

     

    再翻看电台00级送旧晚会的留言记录,才发现自己原来在纯真年代曾经听到过那么多充满生活奥义的箴言。

     

    “我们在大学毕业后所能带走的就是所学到的知识和自己收获的情感。”

    “我们不是在告别一个组织,而是在告别一个时代”

    “我觉得我不在乎天长地久,只要有回忆我就满足了,这份回忆可能是以后你在大街上见到我,紧紧地握住我的手,给我一个拥抱。”

    “我在这里学会了不要放弃,不要因为别人的看法放弃自己的追求,现在的瞬间等于未来的永恒。”

    “那些人,那些事,人生久事那些事那些人相聚的过程”

    “千万不要不醉不归,因为我们明天还要带着清醒走向远方。离别不是最可怕的,遗忘才是最可怕的。”

    “人生有三件事,求智、求善、情义,前两者是靠自己实现的,最后一样是需要和别人一起实现。”

     

    还好当时没有偷懒记录下听了这些话后自己的感受,我写了2首歌词

    童安格的《爱与哀愁》:“点一支烟、喝一杯酒,能醉多久,醒来后我依然是我。”

    朴树的《九月》:“醉倒人们都举起杯,笑得眼里都是泪,待到明天宴席散去,该谁远行,谁不行。

    As time goes by,------as time goes by……”

     

    November 25

    律师和医生

    休假了几天,发烧,堕落,无法忍受自己浪费时间,看碟。不知道为什么老喜欢思考一些哲学问题,所以我不喜欢看电影,因为我可以把每一个细节想到脑袋疼。所以轻松的港剧比较适合我,我想多笑笑。

     

     

    《一号法庭》和《妙手仁心》经典的两部港剧,我的最爱,对我价值观的形成或多或少地起了点作用。这次有空拿出来重新看,发现自己经历了那么多事情之后,对很多事情的看法不同了,对这两部电视剧的感悟也有些许升华。

     

    医生和律师是香港社会精英阶层的代表,是成熟的公民社会不能缺少的人才。两部电视剧通过制造一些人类社会具有普适性的矛盾来诠释剧中人物的个性,将那些同归与“情与理”、“理与利“、“道德”与“责任”等范畴的事件化作日常生活的点滴地展现出来,剧中人物在面对这一切时的态度与决策过程似乎有意地在观众面前树立“理性”面对生活的典范。

     

    按照大英法律体系,通过合理的诉讼程序,即使有人犯了3家灭门谋杀案,在证据不足的情况下,依然无法将犯人定罪。当人们在对现实无能为力的时候,只能用“天网恢恢、疏而不漏”的伦理教条来安慰自己。而这样简单的一句话,已经蕴含着人类在无力面对现实时诉诸宗教的自然本能。《一号法庭》的英文名叫《Justice File》,法治社会的昌明不是一天建成的,那是多多少少秉持着“法律是公正的”这一信条的人多年的事件的结果。有问题便要找解决问题的方法,亦是理性人的本能。而法律的诞生,为人类在问题面前提供了一套最有效的解决方法,随着人类社会的演进,这套发源于古希腊的解决方法在现代社会已经成为了是最权威、最理性、唯一有效并能在最短时间内获得广泛认同的方法。

     

    法律是公正的诚然不错,但是,它并不能在所有场合解决所有问题。在很多时候,我们必须接受现实,通过坚强的内心去化解和面对现实留给我们的问题。

     

    这群经受了严密的法律训练通过理性和逻辑来分析生活的人时常将法律语言应用到生活中,比如遇到了感情问题,第一个反应就是“问题出在哪里,在你这里,还是在我这里”,还有那些“有没有想好解决方法呢?”“我知道自己在干什么”、“我知道自己该怎么做了”、“面对现实”、“不要让自己不开心”之类的对白,几乎在每一集中都曾出现。还有一些全世界通用的能体现一个人well-educated 的语言——非常有诚意地说“谢谢”、“对不起”。

     

    《妙手仁心》虽然有点抄袭美国的电视剧,但还是很能体现一些东方人的伦理情结。医生们秉持着“治病救人”的神圣信念,在医学的道路上追求理想,实现自身的价值。但医生也是人,他们在死神面前没有特权。所以人们在死神面前就犹如在法律面前一样,“人人平等”,伟人和乞丐,同样逃不过生老病死,而医生便是在死神尽全力为每一个人争取“公平”的人。

     

    全世界有成百上千的人选择自杀来逃避现实,也有成千上万的人为了多呼吸一口新鲜空气忍受着巨大的折磨。突然想到在夏威夷参加一个球员探访儿童医院的活动时遇到的一位白血病人,你很难解释为什么老天爷便便选中这样一个骨瘦如柴已经没有行动能力的孩子来承担人世间最痛苦的煎熬。

     

    当人类在生老病死的现实面前败下阵来,无法承受悲痛与压力,无法解决这些难题时,便会皈依宗教,祈求上天、上帝、佛祖、阿拉来与解决内心的痛苦。所以人类世界不能没有宗教的存在,宗教就是一个精神避难所,他的确解救了很多人。但也必须承认,历史的进步,同样离不开那些在“人类曾经无法解决的问题”。哲学领域的苏格拉底、德谟克利到维特根斯坦,科学领域的伽利略、哥白尼到爱因斯坦,那些巨匠们在仰望星空的时候寻求突破智慧极限的灵感,在俯视心中道德律的时候寻找激发自己前进的勇气,难怪尼采奉“意志”(Will)为改变世界的第一要素,when there is a will, where is a way,这句你小学就会说的话,他其实蕴含着很多人类社会的本质意义。

     

    这两部戏中有太多蕴含丰富人生哲理的对白,真想拿支笔全部写下来。

     

    《妙手仁心》2Annie说:“坚持自己的立场,并且相信他,你就会成功。”这句话用来劝解中国当下以钱为主流意识形态的浮躁的社会族群应该很有效。医生、律师、包括新闻工作者,他们不应当是浮躁的人群,他们都有属于自己行业的宗教信仰,他们在为“生命”、“公平正义”、“知情权”这些的终极理想而奋斗,他们需要专业、钻研、热情、专注以及抗拒灯红酒绿的自制力,可惜在转型中的中国当下社会,这些崇高的追求全部都跟“钱”挂上了关系,希望终有一天,这些行业的从业人员,能发自内心地重归自己职业本身的属性。

     

    同时,医生不是万能的,法律不是万能的,这个世界没有绝对和永恒。而当面对意外和困难时,我们需要冷静、理性、面对现实的勇气、和坚大的内心。这些都不是一蹴而就的,只有在漫长的生命过程中逐渐领会。

    November 20

    一个人

    终于能一个人了思考了。

     

    一个人思考,一个人在喜欢的音乐里面沉沦与幻想,就像我大学的时候听着Dave Matthews在冰冷的雨季冷冷地望着窗外。

     

    终于可以一个人看着童年时最喜欢的港剧,回想起高中时候的自己,回想自己如何从彼时的少女成长成为今天这个样子,想想自己在这些年间得到了什么,失去了什么,最大的长进是什么,最满意和最失意的是什么。看着电视剧里面无聊的对白,思考一下自己远离了很久的生活的现实,什么是生活的重要组成部分,自己应该以何种态度进一步对待生活。

     

    两年来,第一次一个人,原本以为会因为孤单而害怕,谁知道到头来,才发现,一个人沉静下来所思所得所感,以及在此之后所做的一切,反而让自己更自信更安全,痛苦使人坚强。

     

    我在慢慢地体会两个人、一个人、分隔两地的两个人等几种状况下不同的自我,我的行为,我的性格,我的思想,我的所失所得。我曾经有一个人思考了满脑子的东西因为缺乏交流的人而感到脑子快要爆掉,也有两个人因为每天琐碎的思考然后争论,过后有被掏空不想说话不知道说什么的感觉,甚至憎恨这个由语言组成的世界,痛恨那种叫communication的东西,明白了维特根斯坦为什么在修成了语言哲学后会得自闭症。

     

    现在,就是一个人,脑子里还在惯性地思考一些东西,不过没有太多的交流冲动了,把自己消化进一些艺术品中,比如音乐、电影,总之,没有太多的关于现在、关于未来的烦恼。

    November 02

    Historical Year

    我,以及我身边的所有人,谁,都不会忘记今年。

    我想,对于今年,不光光是发生了地震和举办了奥运会的中国人有话要说,全世界的人都有话要说。我等着收集国内的所有主流媒体做的年终总结和来年展望,准备收集所有国外主流媒体的年终总结文章。我迫不及待地想知道,全世界的人会怎样看待今年。

    还是记着纽约时报的一篇评论的最后一句话,this year we are living in, is more or less historical.

    鲁豫有约中,谢晋说,我想活到2008年,至少看到奥运会,对于现在随时都能留下眼泪的我,听了这句话之后,又忍不住掉下了眼泪。

    我记得在我不怎么用功读书的大二时期,讲到现当代文学,唯一被提上课本的非文学作者的人,就是谢晋。那是中国思想刚刚开始解放的80年代,是几乎每个农村都有图书馆和电影院的时代,是整个党中央活跃着自下而上的经济市场化改革路线的时代,是解放后中国第一批思想家和诗人批量涌现的时代。在这个意义上,谢晋是中国现代电影的第一人,是姜文的祖师爷,是那些被现时代的商业逻辑套牢的第5-6-7-8代导演的老前辈,是第一个用自己的文艺热情在中国已经近乎沦为文化沙漠的危机关头将电影艺术的伟大灵魂“召回”的人。当我看到他80岁了,在艺术人生上还那么激动地谈论他的理想时,我真恨不得用犬儒式的简单粗暴,质问那些打着艺术旗号的无良5-6-7-8代导演,你们在80岁时,嘴巴里会吐出怎样的象牙?

    在我眼里,谢晋是上海人的骄傲,是那一代沪上文艺和思想界的典范,我会把他当苏格拉底那样来崇拜。

    2008年,在王元化之后,上海又失去了一个spirit pillar.。

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    冯仑在《我们》上给奋斗2字下了个定义,奋斗,就是为心中的理想死扛着。

    我不知道冯仑的理想是什么?可能是赚钱,可能是造福全人类。但有一点我敢保证,他肯定“死扛过!”

    但愿每一个心中尚有理想的人都继续和它抗下去,度过这个冬天。

     

    下面是,纽约时报和华尔街时报关于金融危机的推荐书籍。

     

     

    Wall Street and Financial Markets

    Offshore Finance Centers and Tax Havens: The Rise of Global Capital
    Jason P. Abbot, Mark P. Hampton, editors
    ISBN-10: 155753165X (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9781557531650 (cloth)
    Purdue University Press, 1999

    Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making
    Michael Abramowicz
    ISBN-13: 9780300115994 (cloth)
    Yale University Press, 2007

    Liberating Economics
    Drucilla K. Barker, Susan F. Feiner
    ISBN-13: 9780472068432 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2004
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    Monetary Divergence
    David H. Bearce
    ISBN-13: 9780472069613 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2007
    S

    Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century
    Margaret M. Blair
    ISBN-13: 9780815709473 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1995
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    The Deal Decade: What Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts Mean for Corporate Governance
    Margaret M. Blair, ed.
    ISBN-13: 9780815709459 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1993
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    Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit
    Lendol Calder
    ISBN-13: 0691074550 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780691074559 (paper)
    ISBN eBook: 9781400801046
    Princeton University Press, 1999
    G

    Asset Prices and Monetary Policy
    John Y. Campbell, editor
    ISBN-13: 9780226092119 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2008
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    Trading Blocks
    Kerry A. Chase
    ISBN-13: 9780472069064 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2005
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    The Story of NationsBank: Changing the Face of American Banking
    Howard E. Covington, Jr., Marion A. Ellis
    ISBN-13: 9780807849538 (paper)
    University of North Carolina Press, 2001
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    Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance
    Marieke de Goede
    ISBN-13: 9780816644148 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780816644155 (paper)
    University of Minnesota Press, 2005
    S

    Financial Markets Volatility and Performance in Emerging Markets
    Sebastian Edwards, Márcio G. P. Garcia, editors
    ISBN-13: 9780226184951 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2008
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    Wall Street: America's Dream Palace
    Steve Fraser
    ISBN-13: 9780300117554 (cloth)
    Yale University Press, 2008

    Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
    Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz
    ISBN-13: 9780691003542 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 1971
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    New Financial Instruments and Institutions: Opportunities and Policy Challenges
    Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815729815 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets, 2007
    S

    Pooling Money: The Future of Mutual Funds
    Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815729853 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets, 2008
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    Institutions and Economic Theory
    Eirik Furubotn, Rudolf Richter
    ISBN-13: 9780472030255 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2005
    S

    The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror
    Beverly Gage
    ISBN-13: 9780195148244 (cloth)
    Oxford University Press, January 2009

    Wall Street: A History From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron
    Charles R. Geisst
    ISBN-13: 9780195170603 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2004
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    The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement And How You Can Fight Back
    Jacob S. Hacker
    ISBN-13: 9780195179507 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780195335347 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2007
    G

    Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism
    Brooke Harrington
    ISBN-13: 9780691128320 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
    S

    Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets
    Robert Kuttner
    ISBN-13: 9780226465555 (paper)
    University of Chicago Press, 1999
    G

    Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
    Edward LiPuma, Benjamin Lee
    ISBN-13: 9780822334187 (paper)
    Duke University Press, 2004
    G

    Financialization of Daily Life
    Randy Martin
    ISBN-13: 9781566399883 (paper)
    Temple University Press, 2002
    G

    The Global Securities Market: A History
    Ranald C. Michie
    ISBN-13: 9780199280612 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780199280629 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2008
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    Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law
    Alan D. Morrison, William J. Wilhelm, Jr.
    ISBN-13: 9780199544189 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2008
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    Taming the Sharks: Towards a Cure for the High-Cost Credit Market
    Christopher Peterson
    ISBN-13: 9781931968096 (cloth)
    University of Akron Press, 2002
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    The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets
    Elliot Posner
    ISBN-13: 9780674031715 (cloth)
    Harvard University Press, February 2009

    Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity
    Raghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales
    ISBN-13: 9780691121284 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2004
    S

    Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
    Riccardo Rebonato
    ISBN-13: 9780691133614 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2007
    G

    Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance
    Mark J. Roe
    ISBN-13: 9780691026312 (paper)
    ISBN eBook: 9781400806683
    Princeton University Press, 1996

    Innovation and Inequality: How Does Technical Progress Affect Workers?
    Gilles Saint-Paul
    ISBN-13: 9780691128306 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
    S

    Fool’s Gold?: The Truth Behind Angel Investing in America
    Scott Shane
    ISBN-13: 9780195331080 (cloth)
    Oxford University Press, 2008
    S

    Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice
    William F. Sharpe
    ISBN-13: 9780691138503 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing
    Hersh Shefrin
    ISBN-13: 9780195304213 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2007
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    Irrational Exuberance: Second Edition
    Robert J. Shiller
    ISBN-13: 9780691123356 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2005
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    Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low-Risk Investing
    Vijay Singal
    ISBN-13: 9780195304220 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2006
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    A History of the Global Stock Market: From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
    B. Mark Smith
    ISBN-13: 9780226764047 (paper)
    University of Chicago Press, 2004
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    Economics for Everyone
    Jim Stanford
    ISBN-13: 9780745327501 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Information and Learning in Markets: The Impact of Market Microstructure
    Xavier Vives
    ISBN-13: 9780691127439 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    Fixing Global Finance
    Martin Wolf
    ISBN-10: 0801890489 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780801890482 (cloth)
    Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

    Trade Threats, Trade Wars
    Ka Zeng
    ISBN-13: 9780472113583 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2004
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    Financial Panics and Market Crises

    Understanding Financial Crises
    Franklin Allen, Douglas Gale
    ISBN-13: 9780199251414 (cloth)
    Oxford University Press, 2007
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    The Great Credit Squeeze
    Martin Neil Baily, Douglas W. Elmendorf, and Robert E. Litan  author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815707554 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2008
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    Essays on the Great Depression
    Ben S. Bernanke
    ISBN-13: 9780691118208 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2000
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    The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
    William K. Black
    ISBN-13: 9780292706385 (cloth)
    University of Texas Press, 2005
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    Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America?
    Clair Brown, John Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane
    ISBN-13: 9780226076324 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2006
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    Financial Crises: Lessons from the Past, Preparation for the Future
    Gerard Caprio, James Hanson, and Robert E. Litan, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815712893 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press and World Bank Group, 2005
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    The Risks of Financial Institutions
    Mark Carey, René M. Stulz , editors
    ISBN-13: 9780226092850 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2007
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    The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
    Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz
    ISBN-13: 9780691137940 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times: The Need for New International Architecture
    Stephany Griffith-Jones, Ricardo Gottschalk, and Jacques Cailloux, editors
    ISBN-13: 9780472113095 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2003
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    Financial Markets and Development: The Crisis in Emerging Markets
    Alison Harwood, Robert E. Litan, and Michael Pomerleano author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815734970 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1999
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    Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets
    Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
    Harvard University Press, 2007

    FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address
    Davis W. Houck
    ISBN-10: 158544197X (cloth)
    ISBN-10: 1585441988 (paper)
    Texas A&M University Press, 2002
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    The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War
    James L. Huston
    ISBN-13: 9780807124925 (paper)
    Louisiana State University Press, 1999
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    Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management
    Saori N. Katada
    ISBN-13: 9780472112111 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2001
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    FDR's First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis
    Amos Kiewe
    ISBN-13: 9781585445974 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9781585446070 (paper)
    Texas A&M University Press, 2007
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    Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
    Jonathan Kirshner
    ISBN-13: 9780691134611 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2007
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    Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929
    Maury Klein
    ISBN-13: 9780195158014 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2003
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    Capital Flows, Capital Controls, and Currency Crises
    Felipe Larrain
    ISBN-13: 9780472110988 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2001
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    Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World
    Curtis J. Milhaupt, Katharina Pistor
    ISBN-13: 9780226525273 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2008
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    Managing Financial and Corporate Distress: Lessons from Asia
    Michael Pomerleano, Robert E. Litan, and Charles Adams, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815701033 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2000
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    Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited
    Nicolas P. Retsinas, Eric S. Belsky, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815774136 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2008
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    Why Are There So Many Banking Crises? : The Politics and Policy of Bank Regulation
    Jean-Charles Rochet
    ISBN-13: 9780691131767 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
    Robert Shiller
    ISBN-13: 9780691139296 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
    William L. Silber
    ISBN-13: 9780691138763 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
    Didier Sornette
    ISBN-13: 9780691096308 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780691118505 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2002

    Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts
    Gary Stern, Ron Feldman
    ISBN-13: 9780815781523 (cloth)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2004
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    Panic! : Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
    David A. Zimmerman
    ISBN-13: 9780807830239 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780807856871 (paper)
    University of North Carolina Press, 2006
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    Market Regulation

    The Economics of Adjustment and Growth
    Pierre-Richard Agénor
    ISBN-13: 9780674015784 (cloth)
    Harvard University Press, 2004

    Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank
    Robert D. Auerbach
    ISBN-13: 9780292717855 (cloth)
    University of Texas Press, 2008
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    Market-Augmenting Government
    Omar Azfar, Charles A. Cadwell
    ISBN-13: 9780472068173 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2003
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    Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern
    James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Ross Levine
    ISBN-13: 9780521709309 (paper)
    Cambridge University Press, 2008

    The Inflation-Targeting Debate
    Ben S. Bernanke, Michael Woodford, editors
    ISBN-13: 9780226044712 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780226044729 (paper)
    University of Chicago Press, 2006
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    Banking on Reform
    William Bernhard
    ISBN-13: 9780472112548 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2002
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    Defensive Internationalism: Providing Public Goods in an Uncertain World
    Davis B. Bobrow, Mark A. Boyer
    ISBN-13: 9780745327501 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2005
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    Nixon’s Business: Authority and Power in Presidential Politics
    Nigel Bowles
    ISBN-10: 1585444545 (cloth)
    Texas A&M University Press, 2005
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    The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought: Law, Power, and Ideology
    Scott Bowman
    ISBN-13: 9780271014722 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780271014739 (paper)
    Penn State University Press, 1995

    The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions: Policy and Practice
    Gerard Caprio, Jonathan Fiechter, Robert E. Litan, and Michael Pomerleano, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815713357 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2005
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    G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment
    Richard H. Clarida
    ISBN-13: 9780226107264 (cloth)
    University of Chicago Press, 2006
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    Capitalism, Not Globalism: Capital Mobility, Central Bank Independence, and the Political Control of the Economy
    William Roberts Clark
    ISBN-13: 9780472031160 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2003
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    Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies
    W. Mark Crain
    ISBN-13: 9780472113033 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2003
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    All Politics is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
    Daniel W. Drezner
    ISBN-13: 9780691096421 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    The Political Economy of Expertise
    Kevin M. Esterling
    ISBN-13: 9780472030644 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2004
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    Institutions and Investments: Foreign Direct Investment in China during an Era of Reforms
    Jun Fu
    ISBN-13: 9780472111787 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2000
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    Financial Gatekeepers: Can They Protect Investors?
    Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815729815 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets, 2006
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    Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush
    Herbert J. Gans
    ISBN-13: 9780472115983 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance
    Peter A. Gourevitch, James Shinn
    ISBN-13: 9780691133812 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2007
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    The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
    Jacob S. Hacker
    ISBN-13: 9780195179507 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780195335347 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2007

    Investing for Change: Profit from Responsible Investment
    Augustin Landier, Vinay B. Nair
    ISBN-13: 9780195370140 (cloth)
    Oxford University Press, 2008
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    American Finance for the 21st Century
    Robert E. Litan, Jonathan Rauch author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815752882 (cloth)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1998
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    Financial Sector Governance: The Roles of the Public and Private Sectors
    Robert E. Litan, Michael Pomerleano, and Vasudevan Sundararajan, editors author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815752899 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2002
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    What Should Banks Do?
    Robert E. Litan author info
    ISBN-13: 9780815752691 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1987
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    Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective
    Andrew W. Lo
    ISBN-13: 9780691132945 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken
    Jonathan R. Macey
    ISBN-13: 9780691129990 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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    In Defense of Monopoly
    Richard B. McKenzie, Dwight R. Lee
    ISBN-13: 9780472116157 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Political Participation and Government Regulation
    Sam Peltzman author info
    ISBN-13: 9780226654164 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780226654171 (paper)
    University of Chicago Press, 1998
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    When Insurers Go Bust: An Economic Analysis of the Role and Design of Prudential Regulation
    Guillaume Plantin, Jean-Charles Rochet
    ISBN-13: 9780691129358 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2007
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    Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformations, 1880s-1990s
    Harland Prechel
    ISBN-10: 0791445933 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780791445938 (cloth)
    SUNY Press, 2000

    I’ll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society
    Robert Reich
    ISBN-13: 9780807043417 (paper)
    Beacon Press, 2002

    Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets
    Janis Sarra, editor
    ISBN-13: 9780774810043 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780774810050 (paper)
    University of British Columbia Press, 2003
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    Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage
    George Selgin
    ISBN-13: 9780472116317 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Debt’s Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America
    David A. Skeel, Jr.
    ISBN-13: 9780691116372 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2003

    Governing the Modern Corporation: Capital Markets, Corporate Control, and Economic Performance
    Roy C. Smith, Ingo Walter
    ISBN-13: 9780195171679 (cloth)
    Oxford University Press, 2005
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    State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital
    Andrew C. Sobel
    ISBN-13: 9780472088737 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 1999
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    The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance
    Malcolm K. Sparrow
    ISBN-13: 9780815780656 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2000
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    Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy
    Constantine J. Spiliotes
    ISBN-10: 1585441422 (cloth)
    Texas A&M University Press, 2001
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    Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
    Robert H. Tillman, Michael L. Ingdergaard
    ISBN-13: 9780813543536 (paper)
    Rutgers University Press, 2008
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    The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives
    Stephen T. Ziliak, Deirdre N. McCloskey
    ISBN-13: 9780472050079 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Business Ethics

    Rediscovering Abundance: Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income, and Their Distribution in the Catholic Social Tradition
    Helen Alford, O.P., Charles M. A. Clark, S. A. Cortright, and Michael J. Naughton, editors
    ISBN-13: 9780268020279 (paper)
    University of Notre Dame Press, 2005
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    CEO Speak
    Joel Amernic, Russell Craig
    ISBN-13: 9780773530379 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780773533202 (paper)
    McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007
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    Employees and Corporate Governance
    Margaret M. Blair, Mark J. Roe, editors
    ISBN-13: 9780815709442 (cloth)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1999
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    Unseen Wealth
    Margaret M. Blair, Steven M. H. Wallman
    ISBN-13: 9780815701132 (cloth)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2001
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    Wealth Creation and Wealth Sharing: A Colloquium on Corporate Governance and Investments in Human Capital
    Margaret M. Blair
    ISBN-13: 9780815709497 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 1996
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    Responsibility in World Business: Managing Harmful Side-effects of Corporate Activity
    Lene Bomann-Larsen, Oddny Wiggen, editor
    ISBN-10: 9280811037 (paper)
    United Nations University Press, 2004
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    Leading with Purpose: The New Corporate Realities
    Richard R. Ellsworth
    ISBN-10: 0804743851 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780804743853 (cloth)
    Stanford University Press, 2002
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    International Business Ethics: Challenges and Approaches
    Georges Enderle, editor
    ISBN-13: 9780268012144 (paper)
    University of Notre Dame Press, 1999
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    The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility
    J. Carl Ficarrotta
    ISBN-10: 1557531846 (cloth)
    Purdue University Press, 2001

    The Ethical Executive: Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior: 45 Psychological Traps that Every One of Us Falls Prey To
    Robert Hoyk, Paul Hersey
    ISBN-10: 0804759650 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780804759656 (cloth)
    Stanford University Press, 2008
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    Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability
    William S. Laufer
    ISBN-13: 9780226470405 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780226470412 (paper)
    University of Chicago Press, 2006
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    Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime
    Terry L. Leap
    ISBN-13: 9780801445200 (cloth)
    Cornell University Press, 2007

    The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance
    Paul MacAvoy, Ira Millstein
    ISBN-10: 0804750866 (paper)
    ISBN-13: 9780804750868 (paper)
    Stanford University Press, 2004
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    Living into Leadership: A Journey in Ethics
    Bowen H. “Buzz” McCoy
    ISBN-10: 0804755760 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780804755764 (cloth)
    Stanford University Press, 2007
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    A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change
    Luis Fernando Medina
    ISBN-13: 9780472069958 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2007
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    Integrity and Agreement: Economics When Principles Also Matter
    Lanse Minkler
    ISBN-13: 9780472116430 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Corporate Irresponsibility: America’s Newest Export
    Lawrence E. Mitchell
    ISBN-10: 0300090234 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780300090239 (cloth)
    Yale University Press, 2001
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    Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
    Robert H. Nelson
    ISBN-13: 9780271022840 (paper)
    Penn State University Press, 2001

    Capitol Investments: The Marketability of Political Skills
    Glenn R. Parker
    ISBN-13: 9780472070374 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism
    Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy
    ISBN-13: 9780472116447 (cloth)
    University of Michigan Press, 2008
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    Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer
    Milton C. Regan, Jr.
    ISBN-13: 9780472031603 (paper)
    University of Michigan Press, 2004
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    Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street
    Louise Marie Roth
    ISBN-13: 9780691126432 (cloth)
    Princeton University Press, 2006
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    Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America
    David Skeep
    ISBN-10: 0195310179 (paper)
    ISBN-13: 9780195310177 (paper)
    Oxford University Press, 2004
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    Managing Ethics in Business Organizations: Social Scientific Perspectives
    Linda Klebe Trevino, Gary R. Weaver
    ISBN-10: 0804743762 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780804743761 (cloth)
    Stanford University Press, 2003
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    Leadership: Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations, Second Edition
    Robert P. Vecchio, editor
    ISBN-13: 9780268043674 (paper)
    University of Notre Dame Press, 2007
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    The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility
    David Vogel author info
    ISBN-10: 0815790767 (cloth)
    ISBN-10: 0815790775 (paper)
    ISBN-13: 9780815790761 (cloth)
    ISBN-13: 9780815790778 (paper)
    Brookings Institution Press, 2006
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    Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
    Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., editor
    University of Notre Dame Press, 2000
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    Peace Through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact
    Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., editor
    ISBN-13: 9780268044145 (paper)
    University of Notre Dame Press, 2008
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    Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy
    Paul J. Zak, editor
    ISBN-13: 9780691135236 (paper)
    Princeton University Press, 2008
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