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Call for papers: Goals and Motivation in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

Association of Black Women Historians Announces 2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize Winner: "These Ladies Do Business with a Capital B: The Griffin Sisters As Black Businesswomen in Early Vaudeville,” The Journal of African American History

Ethics paper wins "Ten best papers of 2016" award from the Philosopher's Annual.

In the News: "How Real ‘Rosie the Riveters’ Discovered a Wartime California Dream," in Time. Read the article in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual for free.

Call for papers: American Politics in Polity

Marine Resource Economics 2016 Outstanding Article Award winner selected: Corbett A. Grainger and Christopher Costello, "Distributional Effects of the Transition to Property Rights for a Common-Pool Resource" (read it now for free)

Special issue of the Journal of Human Capital honors the life and scholarship of Nobel laureate Ronald Coase. This issue contains contributions from economists Sam Peltzman and David Friedman, in addition to a transcription of Coase's remarks at the “The Market for Ideas, Human Capital, and Economic Development."

Bengstrom and Hart awarded 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics: Read free articles in support of the laureates, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

NEW JOURNALS

BBL coverThe Biological Bulletin
Indispensable research for scholars of biology

HAU coverHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology

SPS coverSpenser Studies
Devoted to the study of Edmund Spenser and the poetry of early modern England

JAAH coverThe Journal of African
American History

A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

RES coverRes: Anthropology and aesthetics
Comparative aesthetics in the study of “the object”