Mark D. White

This update will be brief, folks–most of the month since I last posted has been spent working on my two books-in-progress and pushing other proposals forward, as well as dealing with the beginning of the spring semester. But I do have some items to mention:

• The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism is finally available for purchase (at least on Amazon–I've yet to see a copy in the wild).
• The follow-up, The Illusion of Well-Being, was approved by Palgrave but I'm still working with my editors there on some issues with titling and format.
• Jennifer Baker and I are submitting our response to the reviewers of our edited volume on virtue ethics and economics to Oxford on Monday, and the editor is planning to present it to the delegates near the end of the month.
• I was asked by Praeger to edit a two-volume research volume on the insanity defense–very interested in that, and we're talking more about it now.
• Despite my plans to blog more in the new year, my activity is that area was very light this past month. (Eleven months to go, though!) I had one substantive post at Economics and Ethics, "The Illusion of Mathyness" (January 10) and one new post at Psychology Today, "Are Wives Who Are Supported by Their Husbands 'Prostitutes'?" (January 10), following up on Lynn Beisner's piece at Role/Reboot on the characterization given by Elizabeth Wurtzel in New York.
• I posted the call for papers for the Association for Social Economics sessions at the 2014 ASSA meetings, on the theme of law and social economics.
• Finally, I have several presentations in the next month, one at Baruch College on Wednesday, February 20th, and the other at the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes at NYU on Monday, March 4.

Have to run to a meeting–if you're on the east coast, stay safe this weekend!