The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism

The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism

In just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a tiny experiment operated from a Volkswagen van to a thriving global industry worth more than the entire financial sector of […]


The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today

The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today

The past six years have been marked by a contentious political atmosphere that has touched every arena of public life, including higher education. Though most college campuses are considered ideologically […]


Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives

Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives

Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America’s colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough attention has actually been paid to […]


Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools

Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential […]


The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer […]


The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States

The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—“neoliberalism”—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan […]


The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty

The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did […]


Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution

Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution

Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether […]


Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease

Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease

For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations […]


The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration, is a sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have […]