From the inaugural issue of Review of Behavioral Economics, Peter T. Leeson (George Mason): Human Sacrifice. Patrick B. Crawford (People’s College of Law): Occupy Wall Street, Income Inequality and Tax Scholarship: An Ideology Critique of the Consumption Tax Debate. Caitlin E. Borgmann (CUNY): In Abortion Litigation, It's the Facts That Matter. Robert Tally (Texas State): A Geocriticism of the Worldly World. Howard M. Wasserman (FIU): Football and the Infield Fly Rule. From Forward, Theodore Sasson on the fracturing of American Jewry: In the wake of Iran deal, leaders and organizations have lost clout; and who will head the major Jewish federations of America? Sex workers’ rights are just workers’ rights: Mike Konczal reviews Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant. Tyler Cowen on why emerging markets should look within. Meredith Carpenter and Lillian Fritz-Laylin on the snarky, clever comments hidden in the "acknowledgments" of academic papers. Acceptance or exploitation? Rafaella Gunz on the world of alternative modeling. Chris Christie’s loss is [someone’s] gain: Politico asks leading conservatives from Newt Gingrich to Mary Matalin to fill in the blank. Poor Sochi: Elizabeth Kiem on the corruption, crises, ill-preparedness, highways paved with French luggage, and other #sochiproblems surrounding Putin’s graft-gutted Winter Olympics. Adam Martin on conversation starters about the Winter Olympics. Russell Puntenney on 5 everyday annoyances that are actually worldwide disasters.
