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Business & Economics

Chavas Jean-Paul, Hummels David, Wright Brian D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226128924, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 53 line drawings, 55 tables

There has been an increase in food price instability in recent years, with varied consequences for farmers, market participants, and consumers. Before policy makers can design schemes to reduce food price uncertainty or ameliorate its effects, they m...

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Captive Audience The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Crawford Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205701, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-base...

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Education

American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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Criminology

Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs

Cook Philip J., Ludwig Jens, McCrary Justin

ISBN: HB: 9780226115122, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 tables, 55 line illus.

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished...

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Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

Costa Dora L., Lamoreaux Naomi R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116341, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 69 tables, 27 line illus.

The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. Probing the long-t...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2010 Volume 7

Clarida Richard H., Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9780226107387, ISBN: HB: 9780226107363, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
500 pp., 22x15 cm, 60 line illus.

Covers such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, global business cycles, currency carry trades, asymmetric shocks in currency unions, and studies of the recent financial crisis.

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Women Studies

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Collins Jane L., Mayer Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones

"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...

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