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Polonica

Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy

Cienski Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780226306810, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as "bread", "shoes", and "milk products", from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you'd be ha...

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To Learn Fathom Your Learning Principle to Become a Better Leader

Caruso Andy, Barnhart Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781782551034, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, November 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Do you teach? Do you manage? Do you inspire? Do you sell? If the answer is yes to any of these or similar duties, then at least part of your job description or self-chosen pathway will likely include encouraging learning by your students, workers, fo...

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Law

Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection

Calabresi Guido

ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...

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Business & Economics

Politics of Value Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

Collins Jane L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446141, ISBN: HB: 9780226446004, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires...

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Citizens' Wealth Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People

Cummine Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780300218947, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andres Velasco invested budget surpluses from the natio...

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Humanitarian Economics War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market

Carbonnier Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781849045520, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice, one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and huma...

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Enterprising America Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective

Collins William J., Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226261621, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 46 tables

The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the...

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Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Carroll Christopher D., Crossley Thomas F., Sabelhaus John

ISBN: HB: 9780226126654, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 97 line drawings, 117 tables

Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects t...

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Business & Economics

Hard Times The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

Clark Tom, Heath Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300212747, ISBN: HB: 9780300203776, Yale University Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres...

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Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Colarelli Stephen M., Arvey Richard D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226127156, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings

In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines – including an emphasis on adaptation, evo...

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