February 14, 2016
Featured Author-Meets-Critics Books at UC Berkeley
Gabriel Abend “The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics” (critics Dan Hirschman, Elizabeth Popp Berman, and Steve Vaisey)
Jens Beckert “Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics” (critics Jenny Andersson, William Deringer, and Akos Rona-Tas)
Heather Haveman “Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860” (critics Lis Clemens, Claude Fischer, and Gabriel Rossman)
Kimberly Kay Hoang “Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work” (critics Alice Goffman, Horacio Ortiz, and Leslie Salzinger)