This essay introduces this issue’s Debate section on Thomas DeGloma’s Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities (University of Chicago Press, 2023). First, it presents its research questions and methodology. Next, it argues the book’s acclaim is partially the result of a novel take on Eviatar Zerubavel’s concept-driven sociology; its distinctively sociological approach; and a seamless knitting between theory-building and rich, diverse, and captivating examples. Further, the book’s publication coincides with a renewed interest in theorizing. In closing, I present a handful of critiques by the authors who commented on DeGloma’s book: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Seth Abrutyn, and Lorenzo Sabetta.

The Assyrians. By Paul Collins. Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 206, illus. $25. [Distributed by University of Chicago Press]

Abstract We extend Cheung’s (Cheung, N. S. 1969. The Theory of Share Tenancy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) analysis of the consequences of risk and transaction costs for agricultural contract choice by considering the potential for land abuse on the part of the tenant in a dynamic context where the land-abuse decision is linked to the tenant’s decision to renew the contract. By offering appropriate share contracts, landlords can incentivize contract renewal, thereby both lowering the incentive for land abuse and preserving the tenant’s land-specific human capital. In our model, tenants decide each period whether to terminate their contracts and abuse landlord-owned assets based on prior and updated beliefs about the likelihood of bad seasons. Share contracts are shown to be more likely than lease contracts to survive one or more bad harvests.

Everyone’s Business: What Companies Owe Society. By Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 264p.

More than pretty boxes: How the rise of professional organizing shows us the way we work isn't working By Carrie M.Lane, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. 288 pp.

The money signal: how fundraising matters in American politics, by Danielle Thomsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Book Review: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. By MatteiClara E.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 480 pages. Cloth $27.12; paper $20.33. ISBN: 9780226818399

Book Review: <i>Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought</i> , by Temin, David Myer Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought, by TeminDavid Myer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, pp. 264

By Mark Carlson. The young Fed: The banking crises of the 1920s and the making of the lender of last resort. University of Chicago Press. 2025. 240 pp. £32.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐0226837826. £27.89 (Kindle ed.). ISBN: 978‐0226837833

Tracy L. Steffes. Structuring Inequality: How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 376 pp.

William Max Nelson, Enlightenment biopolitics: a history of race, eugenics, and the making of citizens, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.

The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By ScottMacLochlainn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 232 pp.

Hannah Chazin. 2024. Live stock and dead things: the archaeology of zoopolitics between domestication and modernity. London &amp; Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 978-0-226-83750-5 paperback $35.

Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R Wynn, and Berkeley Franz, <i>The City and The Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities</i> SkinnerDanielWynnJonathan RFranzBerkeley, The City and The Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2023; 218 pp. (includes index): ISBN: 9780226829678 (pbk), $32.50 (pbk).

Challenging Inequality: Variation across Postindustrial Societies. By Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 376p.

Kevin Woodson, Review of <i>The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace</i> WoodsonKevin, Review of The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2023; v-206 pp.

Book Review: <i>Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for all Citizens</i> by Peñalosa, Enrique PeñalosaEnrique. 2023. Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for all Citizens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 416 pp. ISBN: 9780226824653.

Checking the Costs of War: Sources of Accountability in Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy. Edited by Sarah E. Kreps and Douglas L. Kriner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 400p.

Don’t leave it to the economists! - Adam Hayes, Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior, University of Chicago Press, 2025

Book Review: <i>The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input</i> by Cheng, T. ChengT.The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2023, 240 pp., 9780226830650, $20.