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Public Health

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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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2011 Volume 12

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473406, ISBN: HB: 9780226473390, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors look at policies that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scien...

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Business & Economics

Intended and Unintended Effects of US Agricultural and Biotechnology Policies

Graff Zivin Joshua S., Perloff Jeffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226988030, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 56 tables, 47 line illus.

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of...

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Business & Economics

Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

Allen Douglas W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226014746, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 2 line illus.

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Eur...

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Business & Economics

Innovation and the State Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland

Breznitz Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168334, Yale University Press, May 2011
288 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 11 black&white illus.

The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different bu...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2010 Volume 11

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473383, ISBN: HB: 9780226473376, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Innovation Policy and the Economy" series provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Issues covered in Volume 11 are an exploration of innovation challenges in the health care...

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Philosophy

Business & Economics

Immaterial

Gorz Andre

ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...

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Business & Economics

International Differences in Entrepreneurship

Lerner Josh, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226473093, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 tables, 52 line illus.

Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market....

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2009 Volume 10

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473345, ISBN: HB: 9780226473338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2010
176 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to ache...

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Philosophy

Business & Economics

Individualism and Economic Order

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226320939, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned e...

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