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America

How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual

Bouk Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...

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Business & Economics

America

Finance in America An Unfinished Story

Brine Kevin R., Poovey Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...

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Political Science

Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

Bowles Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...

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Business & Economics

Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World

Batran Alexander, Erben Agnes, Schulz Ralf, Sperl Franziska

ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4. 0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4. 0 as sim...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 30

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226441139, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The research papers in Volume 30 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" make significant contributions to the academic literature in public finance and provide important conceptual and empirical input to policy design. In the first paper, Gerald Carlino and...

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Business & Economics

Housekeeping by Design Hotels and Labor

Brody David

ISBN: PB: 9780226389127, ISBN: HB: 9780226389097, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings

One of the great pleasures of staying in a hotel is spending time in a spotless, neat, and organized space that you don't have to clean. That doesn't, however, mean the work disappears – when we're not looking, someone else is doing it. With "Houseke...

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Christianity

Faithonomics Religion and the Free Market

Brekke Torkel

ISBN: HB: 9781849046367, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Faithonomics" uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be anal...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 29

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226338248, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 29 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the taxation-related research by NBER research associates, both in terms of methodological approach and in terms of topics. In the first paper, former NBER Pr...

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Business & Economics

Learning by Doing The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth

Bessen James, The Garamond Agency Inc.

ISBN: HB: 9780300195668, Yale University Press, June 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Technology is constantly changing our world, leading to more efficient production. In the past, technological advancements dramatically increased wages, but during the last three decades, the median wage has remained stagnant. Many of today's machine...

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Business & Economics

Strained Relations US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

Bordo Michael D., Humpage Owen F., Schwartz Anna J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226051482, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 14 tables

During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize...

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