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Arrest-Related Deaths, Emerging Questions, and Competing Expectations in Investigations /Darrell L. Ross, Michael Brave, and Mark Kroll --Vital Statistics and Arrest-Related Deaths /Darrell L. Ross and Michael Brave --Legal and Liability Issues Surrounding the Use of Force /Darrell L. Ross --Stress, Perceptional Distortions, and Human Performance /Darrell L. Ross and Randall L. Murphy --Memory and Decision Making Under Stress /Alexis Artwohl --Officer-Involved Incident Investigation Guidelines /Darrell L. Ross and Mark S. Dunston --Positional and Restraint Asphyxia /Davut Savaser and Theodore C. Chan --Neck Holds /Michael Holman and Gary M. Vilke --Excited Delirium Syndrome (ExDS) /Christopher J. Coyne, Binh T. Ly, and Gary M. Vilke --Amphetamines, Cathinones (Bath Salts), and Cocaine /Stephen L. Thornton, Michael A. Darracq, and Binh T. Ly --Central Nervous System Depressants /Michael A. Darracq, Stephen L. Thornton, and Binh T. Ly --Less Lethal Weapons, Not Including TASER /Christian Sloane and Gary M. Vilke --TASER--Conducted Electrical Weapons /Mark W. Kroll and Michael A. Brave --Custodial Deaths in Detention /Darrell L. Ross --Conducting the Investigative Interview /R. Edward Geiselman, James F. Wilson, and Alexis Artwohl --Effective Agency Response to the Media in Use of Force Incidents /Todd A. Lough.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The Parish Boy's Progress -- Chapter 2: Brave New World -- Chapter 3: There and Back Again -- Chapter 4: Bright Lights, Big City -- Chapter 5: A Comedy of Errors -- Chapter 6: Great Expectations -- Chapter 7: Scoop -- Chapter 8: The Importance of Being Earnest -- Chapter 9: Love in a Cold Climate -- Chapter 10: The Marriage Plot -- Chapter 11: Changing Places -- Chapter 12: Howl -- Chapter 13: On the Road -- Chapter 14: Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less -- Chapter 15: Through the Looking Glass -- Chapter 16: Les Enfants Terribles -- Chapter 17: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- Chapter 18: Decline and Fall -- Chapter 19: Crime and Punishment -- Chapter 20: War and Peace -- Chapter 21: A Moveable Feast -- Chapter 22: You Only Live Twice -- Chapter 23: The End of the Affair -- Copyright.

We analyse the effects of central bank government bond purchases in an estimated DSGE model for the euro area. In the model, central bank asset purchases are relevant in so far as agency costs distort banks' asset allocation between loans and bonds, and households face transaction costs when trading government bonds. Such frictions in the banking sector induce inefficient time-variation in the term premia and allow for a credit channel of central bank government bond purchases. Considering ad hoc asset purchase programmes like the one implemented by the ECB, we show that their macroeconomic multipliers get stronger when the lower bound on the policy rate becomes binding and when the purchasing path is fully communicated and anticipated by the agents. From a more normative standpoint, interest rate policy and asset purchases feature strong strategic complementarities during both normal and crisis times. In an environment when nominal interest rates reach their effective lower bound, optimal monetary policy is to keep the policy rate low for a longer period in time and to engage in asset purchases. Our results also point to a clear sequencing of the exit strategy, first stopping the asset purchases and later raising the policy rate. In terms of macroeconomic stabilisation, optimal asset purchase strategies deliver sizeable benefits and have the potential to largely offset the costs of the lower bound on the policy rate.

We analyse the effects of central bank government bond purchases in an estimated DSGE model for the euro area. In the model, central bank asset purchases are relevant in so far as agency costs distort banks asset allocation between loans and bonds, and households face transaction costs when trading government bonds. Such frictions in the banking sector induce inefficient time-variation in the term premia and open up for a credit channel of central bank government bond purchases. Considering first ad hoc asset purchase programmes like the one implemented by the ECB, we show that their macroeconomic multipliers are stronger as the lower bound on the policy rate becomes binding and when the purchasing path is fully communicated and anticipated by economic agents. From a more normative standpoint, interest rate policy and asset purchases feature strong strategic complementarities during both normal and crisis times. In a lower bound environment, optimal policy conduct features long lower bound periods and activist asset purchase policy. Our results also point to a clear sequencing of the exit strategy, stopping first the asset purchases and later on, lifting off the policy rate. In terms of macroeconomic stabilisation, optimal asset purchase strategies bring sizeable benefits and have the potential to largely offset the costs of the lower bound on the policy rate.

Cover Page -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh -- NOTES -- 1. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love Robert Grant -- NOTES -- PART ONE: THE CONVERSATION OF MANKIND -- 2. The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance David Boucher -- CAMBRIDGE IDEALIST INSPIRATION -- THE IDEALIST CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY -- DID OAKESHOTT ABANDON HIS ABSOLUTE IDEALISM? -- THE CONVERSATIONAL CHARACTER OF PHILOSOPHY -- CONCLUSION: THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF OAKESHOTT'S ABSOLUTISM -- NOTES -- 3. Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy Kenneth McIntyre -- EXPERIENCE AND ITS MODES -- "THE VOICE OF POETRY IN THE CONVERSATION OF MANKIND" -- ON HUMAN CONDUCT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4. Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History Geoffrey Thomas -- TEXTS AND CONTINUITY -- ONLY THE PRESENT EXISTS -- ONLY EXPERIENCE EXISTS -- THE HISTORICAL PAST IS AN INFERENTIAL CONSTRUCTION FROM EXPERIENCE -- THE HISTORICAL PAST IS A LOGICAL CONSTRUCTION FROM PRESENT EXPERIENCE -- HISTORICAL INQUIRY IS AUTONOMOUS -- REVIEW -- NOTES -- 5. Radical Temporality and the Modern Moral Imagination: Two Themes in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott Timothy Fuller -- ON RADICAL TEMPORALITY AND HUMAN CONDUCT -- THE MODERN MORAL IMAGINATION RESPONDS TO RADICAL TEMPORALITY -- NOTES -- 6. The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott Elizabeth Corey -- THE TOWER OF BABEL -- RELIGION -- PRACTICE -- POETRY -- RATIONALISM -- NOTES -- 7. Whatever It Turns Out to Be: Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience Corey Abel -- NOTES -- 8. Un Début dans la Vie Humaine: Michael Oakeshott on Education Paul Franco -- I -- II -- III -- NOTES -- PART TWO: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 9. Michael Oakeshott on the History of Political Thought Martyn Thompson -- I -- II -- NOTES.

Over the past twenty years or so, there has been a concerted effort by International Relations (IR) scholars to engage with classical social theory, a tradition that takes in figures such as Max Weber and Karl Marx, C. Wright Mills and Raymond Aron, and more recently, Anthony Giddens and Charles Tilly. Of these comparative macro-sociologists, perhaps the most interesting from an IR perspective is Michael Mann whose oeuvre, now spanning four decades, includes a two-volume history of power in world affairs alongside substantial interventions on debates relating to ethnic cleansing, empire, state-formation and fascism. The interview and forum printed below are, in the first instance, attempts to tease out Mann's most important contributions to social science in general and to IR more specifically. But contributors are also keen to impress upon Mann, and historical sociologists more generally, the need to factor in contemporary advances in both IR theory and practice. As a result, the interview, comment pieces and Mann's reply bear close reading not only for IR specialists, but also for those involved in the wider enterprise of classical social theory itself.