Books and Publications

The book seeks to understand the proliferation of fairy tales - in children’s picture books, in young adult fantasy novels, in popular literature, and on screens large and small - as well as the proliferation of harsh fairy tale critiques - in parenting advice publications, in religious magazines, and in feminist scholarship. Arguments about the value of fairy tales in contemporary American society intersect with arguments about how to raise children to be good adults, about the place of faith in society, about the false dichotomy between faith and science, about evangelical Christians’ persecution complex. Kate Koppy doesn’t offer prescriptive answers to these questions, but she does reframe the conversation to include the intersections among them.

NES Professor Andrei Markevich became a co-author of two chapters for the book The Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe, 1800 to the Present that was released in late 2020. The chapter Economic growth and sectoral developments, 1945-1989 by Andrei Markevich and Tamás Vonyó is dedicated to the post-WWII period which brought significant transformations in the economic, political, and social history of Eastern Europe. The following chapter Economic policy under state socialism, 1945-1989, also co-authored by Andrei Markevich and Tamás Vonyó describes the model of the command economy, which was implemented first in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin and spread to other countries of Eastern Europe after the war.

With Giovanni Federico, Andrei Markevich examines how this growth, following the 18th century Industrial Revolution, spread from the British Isles to continental Europe and initiated the Great Divergence, the process by which the Western world overcame the constraints on development and became the most powerful and richest civilization.