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The Paradigm Sways: Macroeconomics Turns To History (Reviewing Three Titles), David A. Westbrook
The Paradigm Sways: Macroeconomics Turns To History (Reviewing Three Titles), David A. Westbrook
Book Reviews
Reviewing Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James & Jean-Pierre landau, The Euro and the Battle of ideas (2016); Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—And Still Have to Learn—From the Financial Crisis (2014); and Mervyn King, The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (2016).
The Josiah Philips Attainder And The Institutional Structure Of The American Revolution, Matthew J. Steilen
The Josiah Philips Attainder And The Institutional Structure Of The American Revolution, Matthew J. Steilen
Journal Articles
This Article is a historical study of the Case of Josiah Philips. Philips led a gang of militant loyalists and escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp of southeastern Virginia during the American Revolution. He was attainted of treason in 1778 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly, tried for robbery before a jury, convicted and executed. For many years, the Philips case was thought to be an early example of judicial review, based on a claim by St. George Tucker that judges had refused to enforce the act of attainder. Modern research has cast serious doubt on Tucker’s …