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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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Psychology

Rhetorical Memory A Study of Technical Communication and Information Management

Whittemore Stewart

ISBN: HB: 9780226263380, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 8 line drawings, 1 table

Institutions have regimes – policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices – day-to-day behaviors performed by individual wor...

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Sport

Top Performance in Business and Sports Maximum Energy for Professionals and Athletes

Wienecke Elmar

ISBN: PB: 9781782550556, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, September 2014
224 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 36 colour and black&white illus.

More and more people nowadays feel stressed out. In many cases this even leads to burnout. They feel empty, they cannot go on anymore, they are without motivation, power, and joy. Over the past ten years, the number of people suffering from this stat...

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Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective

White Eugene N., Snowden Kenneth, Fishback Price

ISBN: HB: 9780226073842, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 50 tables

The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and...

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Discoveries in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226146096, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2014
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 figures, 128 tables

The oldest members of the Baby-Boomer generation are now crossing the threshold of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare with extensive and significant implications for these programs' overall spending and fiscal sustainability. Yet the aging...

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Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-1623 An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets

White Paas Martha, Paas John Roger, Schoolfield George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146769, Yale University Press, July 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-1623, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a particular focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. The volume...

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Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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Political Science

Politics of the Food Supply U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy

Winders Bill, Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181869, Yale University Press, March 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they h...

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Explorations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903378, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
400 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 105 tables, 73 line illus.

The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, "Explorations in the Economi...

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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.

The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...

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