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Philosophy

Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics

Heath Eugene, Kaldis Byron

ISBN: PB: 9780226443850, ISBN: HB: 9780226443713, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how gove...

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Business & Economics

Conceptualizing Capitalism Institutions, Evolution, Future

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419695, ISBN: HB: 9780226168005, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 5 tables

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual...

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Ecology

Business & Economics

Natural Capital Valuing the Planet

Helm Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780300219371, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables-like species-keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables-like oil and gas-can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures ou...

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Business & Economics

Capital and Interest

Hayek F. A., White Lawrence H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226274874, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings

Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek's career, the writings collected in "Capital and Interest" see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sop...

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Business & Economics

Better Bankers, Better Banks Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

Hill Claire A., Painter Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copi...

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Business & Economics

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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Business & Economics

Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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Business & Economics

Generalized Microeconomics

Hlavacek Jiri, Hlavacek Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024620244, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
208 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 71 graphs, 7 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The generalization of microeconomics enables model descriptions of economic rationality, even in fields that standard microeconomics more or less avoids, like nonprofit sectors of market e...

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Business & Economics

Economy of Words Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks

Holmes Douglas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226087627, ISBN: HB: 9780226087597, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

Markets are artifacts of language – so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have be...

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General

Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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