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Hidden Wealth of Nations The Scourge of Tax Havens

Zucman Gabriel, Lavender Fagan Teresa

ISBN: PB: 9780226422640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at wh...

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Hubris Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

Desai Meghnad

ISBN: PB: 9780300219494, ISBN: HB: 9780300213546, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswer...

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Craft

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How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line

Shapiro Emilie

ISBN: HB: 9781454709336, GMC Group, Lark, April 2016
192 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, colour illus.

To develop a successful jewellery line, designers have to be more than just creative artists – they have to understand the ins and outs of running a craft business. Emilie Shapiro's detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handma...

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America

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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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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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Asia

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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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House of Debt How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

Mian Atif, Sufi Amir

ISBN: PB: 9780226271651, ISBN: HB: 9780226081946, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 line drawings

The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years...

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Business & Economics

Hard Times The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

Clark Tom, Heath Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300212747, ISBN: HB: 9780300203776, Yale University Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres...

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Political Science

How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education

Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables

The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...

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Biography & Memoires

Business & Economics

Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power

Klein Mason

ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...

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