The inaugural issue of Barents Studies is out. Marica Spalletta (USCM) and Lorenzo Ugolini (UCSC): Fashion/Social Advertising: What Happens When Fashion Meets Social Issues. Benjamen Franklen Gussen (Auckland): The State is the Fiduciary of the People. Peter J. Boettke and Liya Palagashvili (George Mason): James Buchanan's Contributions to Constitutional Political Economy, Institutional Analysis, and Self-Governance. Richard E. Wagner (George Mason): James Buchanan's Public Debt Theory: A Rational Reconstruction. Andrew M. Bailey (Yale-NUS): You Needn’t be Simple. Gus P Gradinger and Bart J. Wilson (Chapman): The Clash of Aristocratic and Bourgeois Virtues in The Wire. Rosemary Corbett (Bard): Meta-data, Same-Sex Marriage and the Making of "Terrorists". The trials of Entertainment Weekly: Anne Helen Petersen on one magazine's 24 years of corporate torture. Mike Sacks on 18 things you learn after interviewing 80 or so comedy writers. Ezra Klein on how Transformers 4 is a master class in economics. Two of the world’s most powerful women of finance sat down for a lengthy discussion on the future of monetary policy in a post-crisis world: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Welcome to the age of self-love: Brendan O'Neill on how it's the perfect cause for our narcissistic times. Marcus Wohlsen on how 40 years on, the barcode has turned everything into information.
