Current Affairs

The Occupy Wall Street movement is, to Morris Berman, an unsurprising uprising against evident society-wide dysfunction.  However, though he’s hopeful they’ll succeed, he’s written an entire book chronicling rebellions—from the left and from the right—against what he calls America’s “hustle culture,” and he shows the protesters have 400 years of history going against them.

Authors Carl Walter and Fraser Howie tell the story of China’s incredible ascension, how it got to where it is now, and what the future holds in the second edition of ‘Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, Revised Edition’.

World-Renowned Thought Leader, Bruce Schneier, Writes New Book On How To Solve The Most Important Problem We Face In Society And Business:  Trust

REGULATING WALL STREET has been honored with a 2011 PROSE Awards.

The PROSE Awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals and electronic content, published annually in subject areas ranging from economics to biomedicine.  

As 11 different regulatory agencies now begin the process of adopting the Dodd-Frank Act’s 243 new formal rules, more than 40 NYU Stern finance faculty have come together to offer key proposals to integrate into this critical legislation whose outcomes will shape the future of global financial architecture for years to come.

Potentially key fingerprint evidence is currently not being considered due to shortcomings in the way it is reported, according to a report published today in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. Researchers involved in the study have devised a statistical model to enable the weight of fingerprint evidence to be quantified, paving the way for its full inclusion in the criminal identification process.

Meticulous forward planning, effective casualty assessment by a senior surgeon and efficient teamwork by medical and administrative staff are essential when handling injuries sustained in major terrorist incidents. Those are some of the key findings of a paper published in the March issue of BJS, the British Journal of Surgery, on the 2008 Mumbai attack, which lasted more than 60 hours and resulted in nearly 300 casualties and over a hundred deaths.

On the first anniversary of the Egyptian uprisings, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) releases new analysis of why and how the Arab uprisings began and what this means for human rights and public policy.

This April 14 will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The Dummies series brings an informative guide that helps separate fact from fiction with facsimile reprints of original documents, engravings, articles, and manifests.

Eight years since the first publication, this second edition includes updated information about Kim Jong Il's succession plans and the latest scoop on the talks of hindering North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls’ clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist Jean Malpas who writes in Family Process about a new approach to support parents with gender nonconforming and transgender children.

Independent and former Washington Post writer Michael Hill argues that all the myopic, profit-driven activities commonly practiced in today's economy are destroying long-term wealth building capacity and creating wealth disparity.