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A former president of the American Economic Association, he is author of Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisisand A Financial History of Western Europe.
His books include Sociology of Marriage and Family; Three Sociological Traditions; Sociology since Midcentury;and, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Weberian Sociological Theory.
Richard Schlatter is University Professor of History and a former provost of Rutgers University. He is an executive associate of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is author of Private Property, The History of an Ideaand Hobbes’s Thucydides;and editor of a new edition of Changing Views on British History.
His many books include The World Economy: History and Prospect; Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Foreign Aid;and The United States and the Regional Organization of Asia and the Pacific: 1965–1985.
He is president of the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy and author of The Age of Triage: Fear and Hope in an Over-Crowded World.
He is completing a book on the history of the liquor question in America.
He is a former president of the American Society of Criminology. His many publications on crime and social problems include Poisoning for Profit: The Mafia and Toxic Waste in America.
He was recently Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Threatand The Limits of Legitimacy.
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Kindleberger, C.P., Collins, R., Schlatter, R. et al. Books in review. Society 23, 78–92 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695894
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