Publications
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a…
Southeast Asia Program
This paper is an attempt to demystify Keynes and give concrete shape to some expressions that Keynes used when writing about investment and capital without adequate explanation. The paper brings together positive axioms…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
This paper studies the self-control problem of a morally committed bureaucrat in choosing the optimal level of discretion. They show a novel tradeoff in the official’s moral commitment: more discretion allows the…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
With the spring 2024 primary upon us, social scientists can draw lessons from Europe’s past. Our task is to figure out which lessons are meaningful in the current American moment.
Institute for European Studies
By Our Faculty
In this paper, the authors argue that Section 512(c) notice-and-takedown regime provides a natural setting to study the signaling aspect of pretrial bargaining. A strong signal is short, easy to read, and more specific…
Einaudi Center for International Studies
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been…
East Asia Program
The Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the volatile and diverse public of the post-Mao era.
East Asia Program
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative…
East Asia Program
Farmer-managed seed systems and the conservation of agrobiodiversity are increasingly recognized as important components of food and seed sovereignty.
Institute for African Development
By Our Faculty
