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• Flash-Forward 1Spearman Meets the King 1 2A Nobel Invitation 5 3No Coase for Concern 11 4Investigation of a Theft 19 5Visiting Professor 29 6West to Texas 37 7An All-Nighter 43 8The Artist Has a Visitor 47 9The Scene of the Crime 57 10Spearman Gets the News 73 11The Academical Village 97 12Dining Protocol in the Academy 107 13A Doctor's House Call 119 14A Conference of Detectives 133 15Art and Economics 141 16It All Began with Adam... 161 17Office Hours: In Three Acts 179 18The Hiring Squad 201 19 Surprise at Sotheby's 217 20Trip to the Travis 231 21Class Action 249 22An Artist's Eulogy 259 23Lost & Found 269 24An Arresting Development 277 25The Death Effect 281 26The Bell Curve 297 27 A Late Night Visit 309 28 Doing Good by Doing Well 317 Acknowledgments 341.
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Henry Spearman, the balding economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, returns in The Mystery of the Invisible Hand--a clever whodunit of campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Having just won the Nobel Prize, Spearman accepts an invitation to lecture at Monte Vista University. He arrives in the wake of a puzzling art heist with plans to teach a course on art and economics--only to be faced with the alleged suicide of womanizing artist-in-residence Tristan Wheeler. When it becomes clear that Wheeler had serious enemies and a murderer is in their midst, Henry Spearman is on the case. Was Wheeler killed by a jilted lover, a cuckolded husband, or a beleaguered assistant? Could there have been a connection between Wheeler's marketability and his death? From the Monte Vista campus in San Antonio to the halls of Sotheby's in New York, Spearman traces the connections between economics and the art world, finding his clues in monopolies and the Coase conjecture, auction theory, and the work of Adam Smith. What are the parallels between a firm's capital and an art museum's collection? What does the market say about art's authenticity versus its availability? And what is the mysterious "death effect" that lies at the heart of the case? Spearman must rely on his savviest economic insights to clear up this artful mystery and pin down a killer.
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• Part I
• Starting from Loomis 9
• My Parents 25
• Sacramento Nihonmachi 27
• Nihongo Gakko: Japanese-Language School 31
• Bento 37
• Three Spanish Girls 41
• Dominguez 43
• I Will Go and Return 51
• After Supper 57
• New Year's Eve, 1940 61
• Papa's Hat 67
• Part II
• Little Theater in Camp 81
• Starting from Loomis ... Again 87
• Swimming in the American 91
• Tuberculosis in Our Family 95
• Summer Job at Mount Baldy 101
• Nisei Experimental Group and Later 107
• Career as a Librarian 113
• Barracuda and Other Fish 119
• Tule Lake Revisited 133
• What It Means to Be Nisei 137
• The Funeral 143
• Birth Certificate Story 153
• Live Oak Store 157
• No Brakes 161.

"A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, mysteries, and choices--the things in his life that he cannot forget--that have made him who he is. Central to this collection are Kashiwagi's confinement at Tule Lake during World War II, his choice to answer "no" and "no" to questions 27 and 28 on the official government loyalty questionnaire, and the resulting lifelong stigma of being labeled a "No-No Boy" after his years of incarceration. His nonlinear, multifaceted writing not only reflects the fragmentations of memory induced by traumas of racism, forced removal, and imprisonment but also can be read as a bold personal response to the impossible conditions he and other Nisei faced throughout their lifetimes"-- Provided by publisher.

• The plums can wait
• Live Oak Store
• Laughter and false teeth
• Kisa Gotami
• Mondai wa Akira
• Blessed be
• A window for Aya
• Issei woman
• The betrayed.

"The book gathers together plays that chronicle the experiences of Japanese Americans from the hardships of the Depression of the 1930s, through the bitterness and dislocation of the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, through the rise of Asian American consciousness and pride in the late 1960s and 1970s to today" -- provided by publisher.

Harvard professor Henry Spearman, the ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics in any situation, is on a mission in England scouting out the most famous house in economic science--until two corpses and a diabolical killer interfere with his plans.
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Cinnamon Bay Plantation was the ideal Caribbean island getaway-or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder. While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws-those of economics. Theorizing and hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the killer's trail as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to densely forested hiking trails with perilous drops to a barren offshore cay.
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• v. 1. 1902-1941, I, too, sing America
• v. 2. 1941-1967, I dream a world.

The Fatal Equilibrium is a mystery novel that provides a grasp of basic economics on the way to finding out whodunnit. Dennis Gossen is dead, a career in economics cut short by the Harvard Promotion and Tenure Committee and an apparent suicide. When two members of that committee are killed, Gossen's fiancee, Melissa Shannon, finds herself indicted for murder. Once again, Henry Spearman, Professor of Economics at Harvard, finds himself on the track of a murderer and once again Marshall Jevons presents his readers with a captivating murder mystery riddle.Was it Morrison Bell, mathematics star, inventor of devices to defeat the squirrels in his birdfeeders? Or was it owl-like Oliver Wu the distinguished sociologist who harbors deep resentments? Was it Valerie Danzig, supposedly former 'item' with Dennis Gossen? Or maybe Foster Barrett, gourmet Harvard classicist? What about Cristolph Burckhardt, infatuated employer of Gossen's fiancee? Or Sophia Ustinov, Russian emigre, lover of American poetry and Borzoi hounds? Three lives come to an end. And when Spearman begins to piece it together, the murderer and Henry find themselves face to face on a luxury liner in a storm at sea in the fourth and final Fatal Equilibrium. For the reader who follows the clues, the solution to this conundrum is, as usual in the best of this genre, elementary. The difference in this case is that it is elementary economics. The Fatal Equilibrium is a mystery novel that provides a grasp of basic economics on the way to finding out whodunnit. Its predecessor, Murder at the Margin, has already achieved a cult following. In a review of Jevons' earlier book, The Wall Street Journal remarked that "if there is a more painless way to learn economic principles, scientists must have recently discovered how to implant them in ice cream.".
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After being accused of a multi-million-dollar stock swindle, Alfred Doolittle Hannah dies in an apparent suicide, but First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt suspects murder.