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No Freedom Without Regulation The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis

Singer Joseph William

ISBN: HB: 9780300211672, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world's most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong...

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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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Education

Myth of Achievement Tests The GED and the Role of Character in American Life

Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226324807, ISBN: HB: 9780226100098, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 153 line drawings, 34 tables

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of...

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Education

Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

Anteby Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...

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Changing Frontier Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

Jaffe Adam B., Jones Benjamin F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226286723, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 97 line drawings, 66 tables

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of t...

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World the Game Theorists Made Game Theory and Cold War Culture

Erickson Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226097176, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings

In recent decades game theory – the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals – has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altru...

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Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 22

Greve Michael, Hazlett Thomas, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226166667, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
316 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...

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Business & Economics

Hungry Bengal War, Famine and the End of Empire

Mukherjee Janam

ISBN: HB: 9781849044318, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial...

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Other People's Houses How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business

Taub Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300212709, ISBN: HB: 9780300168983, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded c...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2014 Volume 29

Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226268736, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2015
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-ninth edition of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual continues its tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. Two papers in this year's issue deal with recent economic performance...

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