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This four-volume reference work covers the main issues, methods of analysis, and alternatives, of causality, including the classic texts applying these alternative concepts and methods to empirical cases. The volumes give a substantial historical and philosophical introduction relevant to the concerns of practitioners

This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality and model the preferences and choices of agents to infer subjective (agent) evaluations as well as objective outcomes. Anticipated and realized subjective and objective outcomes are distinguished. Models for simultaneous causality are developed. The paper contrasts the Neyman-Rubin model of causality with the econometric approach. -- Causality ; econometrics ; Roy model ; Neyman-Rubin model ; subjective and objective evaluations ; anticipated vs. realized outcomes ; counterfactuals ; treatment effects

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Concepts of Causationas Developed by Philosophers -- 1. The Discourse Frame -- 2. The Temporal Frame -- 3. The Explanation Frame -- Part Two: Causal Concepts and Research Methods -- 4. Causation in Introductory Psychology Texts -- Editors' Commentary -- 5. Rerum Cognoscere Causas: Dependent and Independent Variables in Psychology -- Editors' Commentary -- 6. On the Concept of "Effects" in Contemporary Psychological Experimentation: A Case Study in the Need for Conceptual Clarity and Discursive Precision -- Editors' Commentary -- 7. Legislating Causal Logic: Scientifically Based Educational Research in the United States -- Editors' Commentary -- Part Three: Causal Concepts and Linguistic Topics -- 8. Triggers and Their Consequences for Language Acquisition -- Editors' Commentary -- 9. Causes of Language Death -- Editors' Commentary -- 10. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: On Causes, Reasons, and Images -- Part Four: Causal Concepts and Medical Contexts -- 11. The Notion of Cause in Biomedicine -- Editors' Commentary -- 12. Causes and Consequences: Pain Research and the Placebo Effect -- Editors' Commentary -- 13. Questioning Causation in Mental Health -- Editors' Commentary -- 14. Understanding the Person with Alzheimer's Disease from a Causes-and-Consequences Perspective -- Editors' Commentary -- Part Five: Causal Concepts and Collective Behavior -- 15. Causality and Protracted Violent Conflicts: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons -- Editors' Commentary -- 16. This Causes Conflict! On the Risks of Establishing Causalities through Conflict Analysis and the Consequences of Implementing Those Logics in Conflict Resolution Strategies -- Editors' Commentary -- 17. Causality in the Study of Collective Action and Political Behavior.

Close on the thematic heels of her groundbreakingSex after Fascism, Dagmar Herzog offers us in her new bookCold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophesa further elaboration on her earlier thesis about the complex relationship between sex and politics.Sex after Fascismmade an immensely productive but counterintuitive argument, one that crucially relied on the proposition of three historical periods, each defined by its particular relationship with sex(uality). Herzog claimed, first, that German fascism was not sexually repressive; second, that the immediate postwar environment was, on the contrary, sexually repressive; and third, that the "sexual revolution" beginning in the late 1960s and expanding into the 1970s was consciously contesting fascist repression, while in fact it was actually and unconsciously in dialogue with the more immediate past of the postwar era. Her tour de force argument here was that this historical sequencing had the overall effect of obscuring, indeed repressing, the sex-positive policies of the Nazis and therefore "misunderstanding" not only fascism itself but also—and especially—fascism's (sexual) appeal. Herzog suggested that not only did the generation of the 1968-ers espouse a politics of the missed object; more nefariously, the repression of fascism's sexual appeal also opened the road to all sorts of varieties of historical revisionism.

Dans quelles conditions les gens ont-ils tendance à croire qu'un phénomène x a été cause d'un phénomène ultérieur y ? Nous suggérons ici qu'un sens subjectif de causalité peut émerger si x explique y en tant qu'il correspond à une réduction par exemple de sa complexité au sens de Kolmogorov. Nous étudions également dans des configurations plus générales la relation existant entre l'explication et la prévisibilité entendues comme sources de ce sens subjectif de causalité.