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Guenther Roth is professor of sociology at Columbia University and editor, with Claus Wittich, of Max Weber’s Economy and Society (1968) and, with Hartmut Lehmann, of Weber’s Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (1993). His biography of Marianne Weber appeared as the introduction to her biography, Max Weber’s (Transaction Books, 1988).

Walter Berns is professor emeritus at Georgetown University, and now serves as Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has written several books on a wide range of political science topics, including Taking the Constitution Seriously (1987) and In Defense of Liberal Democracy (1984).

Melford E. Spiro is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books are Anthropological Other or Burmese Brother: Studies in Cultural Analysis and Culture and Human Nature. Each of these titles have been reissued by Transaction.

Freddie C. Colston is professor of political science in the Department of History and Political Science at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia. He has published articles on race and politics in several professional journals.

Pamela S. Falk, former staff director of the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs which oversaw the passage of NAFTA, is co-editor of La Adhesion de Mexico al GATT (El Colegio de Mexico) and Senior Fellow at the Caribbean Cultural Center. She taught U.S.-Mexican Relations at Columbia University and worked in Mexican corporate finance at a New York law firm. She travels frequently to Mexico and is adjunct professor of law at CUNY Law School where she teaches international trade and commercial transactions.

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Roth, G., Berns, W., Spiro, M.E. et al. Books in review. Soc 34, 83–93 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-997-1012-7

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