Dr. James R. Otteson, joint professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva College, has published a new book titled Adam Smith, (Continuum, 16, 20 Jan., 2011). The book is a part of a series entitled “Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers,” which aims to introduce these thinkers to a wider audience, providing an overview of their lives and works, as well as expert commentary on their enduring significance. Adam Smith begins with a short biography of Smith, followed by an overview and discussion of his extant works, focusing on his two major publications, the 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments and the 1776 Wealth of Nations, and concludes by discussing what Smith got right, what he got wrong, and why he is still worth reading. Otteson is also the author of Adam Smith’s Marketplace of Life (Cambridge, 2002) and Actual Ethics (Cambridge, 2006), as well as numerous articles on the history of philosophy, ethics and political philosophy.

Dr. Linda M. Shires, professor and chair of English at Stern College for Women, has been named to the Advisory Board of Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press). VLC "encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies." Shires' research areas include Nineteenth-Century British literature and culture, gender studies, and narrative theory. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has authored three books, co-authored one, edited four others and published over twenty-five articles. She has also been honored for her teaching--having twice served as an N.E.H. Seminar Director. She also serves on the boards of Victorians Institute Journal (U. Kentucky), Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Montreal), and NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).

Dr. Chaim Nissel, director of YU's Counseling Center and associate dean of students for health affairs, has been named to the board of “Elijah’s Journey,” a grassroots organization started to educate the Jewish community about mental health and suicide prevention. Elijah’s Journey recently partnered with Uri L’Tzedek and The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention NYC Chapter for an evening devoted to Suicide Prevention in The Jewish Community on February 8. The event also included a discussion moderated by Dr. Nissel titled "Helping a friend in need".

Nearly half a century after Lyndon Johnson coined the phrase, America continues to fight the war on poverty, especially as such modern realities as the global economy, job outsourcing, and the recession contribute to the numbers of the unemployed and the working poor. As social welfare and reform efforts are debated in Congress and local agencies, facts regarding past programs are often elusive. U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present, (Springer, 1st Edition, 2011), written by Dr. Richard Caputo, director of the doctoral program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, examines the evolution of major Federal cash assistance programs to low-income families, from the advent of the Reagan administration to the early Obama years. Written for the professional (but not requiring expertise in quantitative analysis to understand it), U.S. Social Welfare Reform details which programs succeeded, analyzes why others failed, and highlights the need for further reform in the context of today’s economic climate.

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