Compulsive gambling

He has written widely on gambling, crime, and addiction. He is author of The Chase: Career of the Compulsive Gambler,and editor of Journal of Gambling Studies.He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association work group on disorders of impulse control. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Council on Problem Gambling.     

The paradoxes of ‘rational’ death

He has written widely on issues of moral theory, medical ethics, and moral theology. He is author of Medical Ethicsand co-editor of Set No Limits.He is currently completing a book titled The Distant Edge of Lifewhich examines Roman Catholic teaching on rational suicide.     

Public pensions and demographic change

He is a former John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University. He has written several books and articles on issues of labor market theory, work time, and social policy. He is author of Motive und Interessen im Arbeitszeitkonflikt: Eine Analyse der Entwicklung von Normalarbeitszeitstandardsand Zeit und Geld in privaten Haushalten: Gelegenheitsstruktur und Bedarf für Eigenarbeit als Determinanten sozialer Ungleichheit.He is also co-editor of Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations.     

Arthur O. Lovejoy andThe Revolt against Dualism

He is the author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine(1986) and editor of The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings of Philip Rieff(1990). He also edited (with Alan Woolfolk) a volume of Thomas G. Masaryk’s major writings entitled Constructive Sociological Theory(1994), published by Transaction. He is the current editor of The American Sociologist.     

Why stalin? A national debate

He is also the codirector of the Wiener Library of Contemporary History in London. He is the author of major studies on terrorism, political movements, ideological trends, and cultural forms. His books include: Soviet Realities; Culture and Politics from Stalin to Gorbachev; America, Europe, and the Soviet Union;and The Political Psychology of Appeasement.He is also editor of European Peace Movements and the Future of the Western Alliance.     

Meritocracy revisited

Michael Young is author of The Rise of the Meritocracy,reissued in paperback by Transaction. Among his other books is Family and Kinship in East London (with Peter Willmott).He is founder and director of the Institute of Community Studies in London. He is a past chairman of the Social Science Research Council of the United Kingdom and founder of the Open University. He is a member of Parliament as Lord Young of Dartington.     

Term-limitation express

He is co-author of The American Presidency,and editor of The Politics of Interests.He has written extensively on term limits and rotation in office and related topics and commentaries.     

Contested community

He also taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Maryland. Among his leading works are Collective Actionand Morality within the Limits of Reason.He was for many years the editor of the journal Ethics.     

Rethinking human rights

He is author of The Political Economy of the International Monetary Fund (published by Transaction).He is presently a visiting lecturer on ethics and statecraft at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.     

Dignity,choice, and care

He is author of Voyages to Utopia; Paths to Progress;and The Dawn of the Pacific Century(published by Transaction). He is clerk of the Connecticut Valley Quarterly Meeting of Friends.     

The criteria of net benefit

He is the author of Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politicsand co-editor of Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State(in press). He is a founding editor of Alternatives: Perspectives on Society, Technology and Environment.     

After the cold war

He is co-editor (with Kenneth W. Thompson) of Truth and Tragedy: A Festschrift for Hans J. Morgenthau,and editor of The Political Morality of the IMF.He is currently writing a book on Understanding Ethics.     

Parental androgyny

He is co-author of Fatherless America,which is forthcoming. He serves as co-chair of the Council on Families in America, a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary group of scholars and family experts concerned with family and child well-being.     

Soviet jews in the glasnost era

Semyon E. Reznik is a writer, historian, and journalist He is a staff editor-writer for American Illustrated Magazine,a U. S. Information Service publication. He is also a freelance writer for several Russian emigré newspapers and magazines. He has closely monitored the situation of Soviet Jewry and has published articles about the subject in prominent magazines in the United States. Before emigrating to the United States in 1982, he was expelled from both the Soviet Writers’ and the Soviet Journalists Union. He was written widely on politics, literature, history, and science in the Soviet Union.     

Assisted suicide and professional responsibilities

He is co-author of Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine; The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense;and Choosing Life and Death.He is a fellow of the Hastings Center.     

Books in review

He is co-editor (with Kenneth W. Thompson) of Truth and Tragedy: A Festschrift for Hans J. Morgenthau,and editor of The Political Morality of the IMF.He is currently writing a book on U. S. foreign policy.     

The good society redux

He is coeditor (with Kenneth W. Thompson) of Truth and Tragedy: A Festschrift for Hans J. Morgenthau,and editor of The Political Morality of the IMF.He is currently writing a book on U.S. foreign policy.     

Abortion policy and medical practice

He is author of Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicineand editor of The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings of Philip Rieff.He is presently at work on a study of the idea of vocation in three professions: ministering, doctoring, and teaching.     

In search of a foreign policy

He is author of Red Star on the Nile; Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II;and Moscow’s Third World Strategy.He is co-editor of Anti-Americanism in the Third World.     

Educating for safety

He has lectured widely on traffic safety. Among his books are The of Elderly Driversand Rethinking Young Drivers. He is editor of Challenging the Old Order: Towards New Directions in Traffic Safety Theory;all published by Transaction.