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Business & Economics

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226208299, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in Volume 28 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs. The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used a...

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How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education

Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...

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End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China

Butollo Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783593501772, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
400 pp., 21x13.9 cm, 40 illus., 35 tables

The Chinese government and international observers argue that China's economy must overcome its excessive dependence on exports if substantial growth in domestic consumption is to be achieved and sustained in the future. But this shift can only occur...

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Human Capital in History The American Record

Boustan Leah Platt, Frydman Carola, Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226163895, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2014
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capita...

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Citizen's Share Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

Blasi Joseph R., Freeman Richard B., Kruse Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209334, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the largest study of profit-sharing and employee ownership in years, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse investigated dozens of large- and medium-sized companies across all sectors of the United States' economy. The ten-year e...

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Risk Topography Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling

Brunnermeier Markus, Krishnamurthy Arvind

ISBN: HB: 9780226077734, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 line drawings, 14 tables

The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models i...

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Stumbling Giant The Threats to China's Future

Beardson Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300205329, Yale University Press, June 2014
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that tod...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226097794, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2013
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "fiscal cliff". Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER's tradition of carrying out r...

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Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is

Baumol William J., Malach Monte, Pablos-Mendez Ariel, Gomory Wu Lilian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...

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Great Inflation The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking

Bordo Michael D., Orphanides Athanasios

ISBN: HB: 9780226066950, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 tables, 10 halftones, 84 line illus.

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation...

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