"A new and critical history of one of America's most important institutions In The Federal Reserve System: A New History, Robert Hetzel draws on a 43-year career as an economist in the central bank to trace the influence of the Fed on the American economy. Hetzel compares period in which the Fed...

Part I. The evolution of job readiness and credentialing in the United States. The college degree : false panacea or freighted promise? -- The arc to the "golden age" ... and emerging decline -- Part II. Innovation and the rise of competitive higher education alternatives. Competitive models :...

"They Sure Don't Make It Easy for Parents": Low-Income Working Parents and Their Children -- "The Invisible Americans": The Work and Family Transitions Project -- "A Little Can Go a Long Way": Workplace Policies and Parents' Well-Being -- "They Treat Me Right, Then I Do Right by Them":...

Introduction : framing the law of nations in intellectual property in the nineteenth century / P. Sean Morris -- The key historical influences leading to the Paris convention for the protection of industrial property of 1883 / Louise J. Duncan -- Challenging the normative impact of technological...

"Cities generate close to 85 percent of US GDP and are hubs of innovation and growth. However, structural factors--such as the prioritization of businesses and the wealthy, a long-standing federal bias against cities, state government hostilities toward municipal governments, and structural...