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Political Origins of Inequality Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226236797, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem of the rich world. Inequality between rich and poor countries, and rich and poor people the world over, is much greater than within countries like America and Britain. It is t...

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Income Inequality Why it Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice

Drennan Matthew P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209587, Yale University Press, November 2015
168 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan disc...

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Capital and Interest

Hayek F. A., White Lawrence H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226274874, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in "Capital and Interest" see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sop...

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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Erickson Paul, Klein Judy L., Daston Lorraine, Lemov Rebecca, Sturm Thomas, Gordin Michael D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings

In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...

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From Boom to Bubble How Finance Built the New Chicago

Weber Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226294483, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 5 line drawings, 10 tables

During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and co...

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Public Health

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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Side Effects and Complications The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform

Mulligan Casey B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226285603, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 colour plates, 4 halftones, 47 tables

The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it's a conclusion directly borne out by economic forecasts. In "Side Effects and Complications", preeminent labor economist Case...

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Better Bankers, Better Banks Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

Hill Claire A., Painter Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copi...

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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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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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