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Hoxby Caroline M., Strange Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780226574585, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 96 line drawings, 72 tables

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in "Productivi...

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Power Formula for LinkedIn Success Kick-start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search

Breitbarth Wayne

ISBN: PB: 9781626346208, Bookport, Greenleaf Book Group, July 2019
248 pp., 21.3x14 cm

4th edition of the world's most popular LinkedIn handbook – completely revised and updated, including tips for the mobile app. Many LinkedIn books focus solely on creating a killer profile. But LinkedIn is not a spectator event. You can't just show...

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Playing the Game The History of Adidas

Karlsch Rainer, Kleinschmidt Christian, Lesczenski Jorg, Sudrow Anne

ISBN: HB: 9783791358307, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
400 pp., 25x23 cm, 160 colour illus.

Founded in a small town in Bavaria, Germany, the adidas brand has, for nearly a century, been outfitting international sports stars and pop culture icons such as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, and Run-DMC as well as everyday men, women, and children...

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Playful Entrepreneur How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times

Dodgson Mark, Gann David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233926, Yale University Press, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x14 cm

How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encou...

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Prosperity without Greed How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism

Wagenknecht Sahra, Pickel Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9783593507583, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...

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Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World

Batran Alexander, Erben Agnes, Schulz Ralf, Sperl Franziska

ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4. 0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4. 0 as sim...

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Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

Ramanna Karthik

ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables

Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...

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Politics of Value Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

Collins Jane L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446141, ISBN: HB: 9780226446004, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires...

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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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Political Arithmetic Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

Fogel Robert William, Fogel Enid M., Guglielmo Mark, Grotte Nathaniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226256610, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case – economists simply didn't have the nec...

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