PBS NewsHour posts article on AFGD
PBS NewHour has posted a short article drawn from America’s First Great Depression.
Feb 13
AFGD now out in paperback
Cornell University Press has now published the paperback version of America’s First Great Depression.
AFGD reviewed in Cleveland Fed’s Forefront Magazine
Daniel Littman, an economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, reviews America’s First Great Depression in the current issue of Forefront, the Bank’s magazine: “The parallels between pre-industrial America’s 1837 financial crisis and that of our own time are particularly strong. The beauty of Roberts’ book is that the reader can see the entire arc of the crisis, from beginning to end, in a historical context—something that studies of the 2008 event will lack for many years to come. Roberts nicely combines narrative history with analysis. His book is accessible to both the expert and the novice in economic history. Highly recommended.” Read the review.
Contract with Cornell UP for book on economic protests
I’ve just signed a contract with Cornell University Press to produce a short book on the governmental response to protests following the economic crisis that began in 2007-2008. It will be published as a digital edition in the Press’ new Cornell Selects Program. This is the inaugural title in the program. The working title is Crowd Control: Containing Protest in the Age of Neoliberalism.
Logic of Discipline reviewed in Public Administration
The current issue of Public Administration (December 2012) provides a review of The Logic of Discipline: “A tour de force which deserves to be read and debated. It has a grand synthetic sweep which is rare enough in scholarship these days, and it makes an important, imaginative contribution to our efforts to understand the forces shaping public policy in the last three decades.” The review is written by Professor Michael Power of the London School of Economics.
Chinese language version of AFGD in 2013
Cornell University Press has finalized a deal for publication of a Chinese language version of America’s First Great Depression in 2013. It will be produced by SDX Joint Publishing.
Newsletter from Governance
Another newsletter from Governance is now available here. Features a commentary on power and telecom reform in India, and an article on ministerial appointments in South Korea.
Talks in Delhi, Medinipur December 11 and 14
I’ll be giving a talk on the right to information at the Centre for Policy Research’s Accountability Initiative in Delhi on Tuesday December 11. Details here. I’ll also be giving a lecture in the Department of Anthropology at Vidyasagar University in Medinpur on December 14. Details here.
Read a December 16 story in Kolkata’s Statesman about my lecture at Vidyasagar University.
New Zealand’s Dominion Post publishes oped on transparency
New Zealand’s Dominion Post has just published my oped, “Transparency is vital in these times.” The oped is based on my address to the Tenth World Conference of the International Ombudsman Institute in Wellington NZ last week. Read the article.
Talk at Conference of International Ombudsman Institute
I spoke on the opening panel of the Tenth World Conference of the International Ombudsman Institute in Wellington, New Zealand on November 14, 2012. The topic was Transparency in Troubled Times. Read a media release about the talk. Photo: fellow panelist Helen Clark, UNDP administrator, and Dame Beverley Wakem, Chief Ombudsman of New Zealand and IOI President.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
