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Sixty to Zero An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors - and the Detroit Auto Industry

Taylor Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300171518, Yale University Press, May 2011
254 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor writes in this in-depth dissection of the car manufacturer's undoing, GM's was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience a...

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Shared Capitalism at Work Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options

Kruse Douglas L., Freeman Richard B., Blasi Joseph R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226456676, ISBN: HB: 9780226056951, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 tables, 22 line illus.

The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effe...

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Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 18

Somin Ilya, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226767628, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
300 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad-ranging and the contributions it brings together ap...

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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Relationship to Youth Employment

Gruber Jonathan, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226309484, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 63 tables, 161 line illus.

Many countries have social security systems that are currently financially unsustainable. Economists and policy makers have long studied this problem and identified two key causes. First, as declining birth rates raise the share of older persons in t...

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Social Security A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives

Gokhale Jagadeesh

ISBN: HB: 9780226300337, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
374 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 tables, 34 line illus.

Many of us suspect that Social Security faces eventual bankruptcy. But the government projects its future finances using long outdated methods. Employing a more up-to-date approach, Jagadeesh Gokhale here argues that the program faces insolvency far...

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Political Science

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Text and Documents

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226321097, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
344 pp., 23x15 cm

"Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason" is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positiv...

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Small Talk The Art of Socialising

Schmidt Kathy, Rogers Marisha

ISBN: PB: 9781741106190, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2008
96 pp., 18.4x12.1 cm

An entertaining and useful book on how to look good, sound good and cope with all kinds of occasions and social situations. It includes chapters on body language, dress codes, speeches, listening, etiquette, giving gifts, school reunions and much mor...

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Business & Economics

Signing With Your Clients

Vold Florence

ISBN: PB: 9781563681110, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
330 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm

Especially for use with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients, "Signing with Your Clients" shows how to sign the questions and statements most frequently used by clinicians. More than 500 line drawings illustrate the signs for 237 sentences with translat...

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