From Economics and Philosophy, Daniel M. Hausmana (Wisconsin) and Michael S. McPherson (Spencer): Preference Satisfaction and Welfare Economics; a review of An Engine, not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie; and a review of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman. From the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, including Jack J. Vromen (EUR): The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less than economics imperialism; an interview with Tony Lawson, author of Reorienting economics; a review of McCloskey’s rhetoric: discourse ethics in economics by Benjamin Balak; a review of Rationality and institutions: on the normative implications of rational choice theory by Bart Engelen; and a review of The invisible hand in economics: how economists explain unintended social consequences by Emrah Aydinonat. Sabine Frerichs (Helsinki): The Legal Constitution of Market Society: Probing the Economic Sociology of Law. From Real-World Economics Review, two issues on how the collapse of the world financial system should affect economics. The market, the state, and the third sector: Paul Dragos Aligica on the remarkable achievements of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom. From PUP, the first chapter from After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy by Murray Milgate and Shannon Stimson; and the first chapter from The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life by David Stark.

From Cracked, a look at the world of tomorrow (if the Internet disappeared today). Hillary Reborn: At State, as in the Senate, she often talks softly — but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t carry a big stick. An interview with Sara Wheeler, a writer in residence with the US Polar Program, on the uplifting grandeur of the polar regions. Jeet Heer reviews The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (and more and more and more and an excerpt). A striking graphic history tells the story of the Honduras coup and unrest (and more). Dissecting the List, an Excursus: It’s probably its hospitality to debate that makes the “Best Of” list so popular in the first place; as with any mirror, it is fearsomely hard to look away. Haaretz profiles Christopher Hitchens and Jacques Attali. From Esquire, a special section on The Language of Men, an illustrative (and illustrated) guide to the way we talk now — the euphemisms, the idioms, and the curses that represent us. Clearly, Matt Drudge has developed a fascination with the declining U.S. dollar. Decline of the Dollar: Don't believe everything you read on the Drudge Report — well into the next few decades, the global economy will still be all about the benjamins. Roald Dahl's children's books are full of barely submerged misogyny, lust and violence; the new film version of Fantastic Mr Fox is an ideal introduction to this fabulous, cruel world. Robert Farley on the EMP threat: Lots of hype, little traction. A review of The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen. From THES, Bruce Krajewski on Microcosmographia Administrativa: Being an Incomplete Set of Etiological Considerations.

You are the woman of the Other and I desire you: "Thus, women are unfaithful, even if they are faithful. They are essentially unfaithful". For the love of the muse: Scott Barry Kaufman on how the mating motive can spark creativity, but interacting with women makes men stupid. Why do men catcall? Screaming at women about their appearances is street harassment. Despicable, yes, but not inexplicable: A review of Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females by Martin Muller. Darwinian psychology meets the female body: A review of Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography and Hannah Holmes' The Well-Dressed Ape. A review of Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between) by Cindy Meston and David Buss (and more and more and more and more). A look at why some women prefer casual sex to dating. David Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, authors of How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories, on female sexual mysteries. An interview with Alison Huang on the sexuality of older women. The fatwa on fake-virginity kits: Conservative Muslims try to ban a device designed to fool men on their wedding nights. Daddy's girl: A non-obvious explanation for why girls without fathers have sex earlier. Can stripping be “empowering”?: Sirens investigates the allure of taking it off. Elvis, my old boss, and other lead players in sexual fantasies: Welcome to "The Desire Lab". What women want, according to Match.com: It helps to be a nonexistent composite of masculine archetypes.

A look at how Moses shaped America (and more and more on Bruce Feiler’s America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story). More than 10 years after her groundbreaking Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy was released, Annette Gordon-Reed is back with the next chapter of this great American saga. A review of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm. A review of American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F. Gura. A review of Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame. Paul Johnson reviews The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan (and more). From HistoryNet, an interview with Richard C. Rattenbury, author of Hunting the American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit and Sport, 1800–1900; and Glenn Boyer answers six questions about Wyatt Earp. From The Nation, a review of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 by Jackson Lears. A review of Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 by Chad Heap. A review of New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. and Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands. More and more and more on Morris Dickstein's Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (and more at Bookforum). An excerpt from Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America by Craig ShirleyLINK. A review of Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Phillip E. Wegner.