The noted economist-diplomat traces the evolution of money and of the institutions and techniques for its management and mismanagement from Lydian coinage to current inflation. (view table of contents)

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Analyzes the causes and costs of traffic accidents, examines how alcohol and drugs affect driving performance, and discusses possible safety policies

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Product Description: Originally published by Random House in 1970, this insightful volume will be of crucial importance to the sociology and psychology student who wishes to know the realities of the everyday lives of deviants and who wishes to arrive at a valid sociological theory of deviance.

Product Description: An exploration of the social organization of deviants and deviance.

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