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Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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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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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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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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Foundations of Macroecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Smith Felisa A., Gittleman John L., Brown James H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115474, ISBN: HB: 9780226115337, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
824 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ec...

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Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress

Jorgenson Dale W., Landefeld J. Steven, Schreyer Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226121338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 line drawings, 121 tables

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measure...

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Generalized Microeconomics

Hlavacek Jiri, Hlavacek Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024620244, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
208 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 71 graphs, 7 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The generalization of microeconomics enables model descriptions of economic rationality, even in fields that standard microeconomics more or less avoids, like nonprofit sectors of market e...

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Economics of Food Price Volatility

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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Economic Regulation and Its Reform What Have We Learned?

Rose Nancy L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226138022, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 line drawings, 30 tables

The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in broad segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, inc...

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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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