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Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720

Goetzmann William N., Labio Catherine, Rouwenhorst K. Geert, Young Timothy G., Shiller Robert J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300162462, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 240 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

The world's first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch c...

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Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is

Baumol William J., Malach Monte, Pablos-Mendez Ariel, Gomory Wu Lilian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...

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America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Fishback Price V., Rose Jonathan, Snowden Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...

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New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production

Marsh Peter T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...

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Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012 Volume 9

Giavazzi Francesco, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226053271, ISBN: HB: 9780226053134, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for over thirty years. The topics covered in this year's volume fall into four categories: exchange rates, global business cycles, the financial crisis, and unemploy...

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Housing and the Financial Crisis

Glaeser Edward L., Sinai Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226030586, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 125 line drawings, 68 tables

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no differ...

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Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else Selected Writings

Davis Harry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226111131, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leade...

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Global Rivalries Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade

Quark Amy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050676, ISBN: HB: 9780226050539, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 line drawings, 12 tables

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it's no sur...

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