Ethnic Economies by Ivan Light and Steven Gold, Academic Press (2000). Reviewed by Mohsen M. Mobasher

Abstract

illustrating once again her closer affinity to Derrida and Foucault than to Habermas in the postmodernism debates.Ultimately, Landry wants to argue that a limited, pragmatic transcendence can be sustained by deconstructing textual play, that a marriage of critical theory and postmodernism can be made. She opens the door wide for a consideration of this as a possibility, but does not firmly make the case that it can be accomplished. For a book that perhaps could have been alternately titled "Kant, Critical Theory, and Poststructuralism," Landry does a fine job in establishing the conditions for the possibility of a rapprochement between critical theory and certain forms of postmodernism. Rather than using Marx to reinterpret the postmodernism debates, as the actual title might imply, Landry has shown how postmodernist concerns over difference, the Other, and the uses of language can possibly rehabilitate Marx, and through him, critical theory.

A combined analysis of 3D weak lensing, Lyman-α forest and WMAP year three data

“…In a 2D analysis, these would have been projected together, resulting in a loss of discriminatory power on cosmological parameters of a factor of 3 − 5 [33,35]. BPZ photometric redshift estimation software achieved 68% confidence limits of 0.03(1 + z) on each galaxy to z ∼ 1.4 and I F 814W = 24 [37]. The galaxy catalog has a median photometric redshift of z phot = 1.26, and has been split into three redshift bins for this analysis: z phot = 0.1 − 1, z phot = 1 − 1.4 and z phot = 1.4 − 3, which divide the number of sources almost evenly.…”

The evolution of quiescent galaxies at high redshifts (z≥ 1.4)

“…Some groups have claimed the existence of a population of massive galaxies at z ∼ 4 (e.g. Mobasher et al 2004;Yan et al 2006;Rodighiero et al 2007;Fontana et al 2009;Mancini et al 2009). The number density of these massive galaxies has had a substantial evolution between z ∼ 4 and z ∼ 0 (e.g.…”

Evidence for the Evolution of Young Early-Type Galaxies in the GOODS/CDF-S Field

“…This allows a more continuous spectral classification across the Hubble types while not causing degeneracy. The choice of steps of 1/3 unit was made as a -Distribution of spectral types T that were assigned by the photometric redshift routine for all objects in our selected GOODS/CDF-S sample (for details on the photometric redshift fitting routine we refer the reader to Mobasher et al 2004Mobasher et al , 2007. The locations of individual spectral types are labeled.…”

“…Using the multi-waveband data available for galaxies in this field, photometric redshifts were measured following the technique presented in Mobasher et al (2007). Briefly, this approach compares the template Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) for different spectral types of galaxies, shifted in redshift space, with the observed SED for galaxies detected in GOODS (see also Sect.…”

“…The template spectral types consist of elliptical, Sbc, Scd, and Im-type galaxies from Coleman et al (1980) and starburst templates from Kinney et al (1996). Bayesian priors based on observed galaxy luminosity functions are used (as detailed in Mobasher et al 2007). Comparison with galaxies with available spectroscopic redshifts yields a photometric redshift accuracy of σ(∆z) = 0.03 where ∆z = (z phot − z spec )/(1 + z spec ).…”