Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-538

Luca Fiorito and Sebastiano Nerozzi of Universita Degli Studi di Palermo review “Jacob Viner: Lectures in Economics 301”, by Douglas A. Irwin and Steven G. Medema. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents lecture notes from Jacob Viner's Economics 301 class as taught at the University of Chicago in 1930. The late Viner was Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. Irwin is John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Medema is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Denver.”

Author(s):  
Phil Mullins

This essay examines the thirty-year personal and intellectual friendship of Edward Shils and Michael Polanyi. Shils identifies Polanyi as one of his three important mentors; he is aware of and often involved in many Polanyi projects after the mid-forties and absorbs elements of Polanyi’s developing post-critical philosophical perspective. Shils helped Polanyi better understand the social sciences and he was a trusted friend whose scholarly writing apparently inspired Polanyi; Shils was also a capable younger figure on whom Polanyi often relied to organize endeavours such as Polanyi’s long term affiliation with the University of Chicago.


2020 ◽  
pp. 58-78
Author(s):  
Beth M. Sheppard

During a bibliometric analysis of the scholarship of ninety-five social science faculty members at the University of West Georgia (UWG), observations were made concerning potential differences between how scholarly communication is practiced by the disciplines of the social sciences and biblical studies. The fields appear to diverge on the role of book reviews, prevalence of co-authored materials, use of ORCIDs, and adoption of DOIs. In addition to highlighting these points, the data set used for the project is described. Finally, a few theological reflections are offered.


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