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Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-1623 An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets

White Paas Martha, Paas John Roger, Schoolfield George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146769, Yale University Press, July 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-1623, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a particular focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. The volume...

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Social Choice and Individual Values

Arrow Kenneth J., Maskin Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300179316, Yale University Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new preface by the author a...

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Clariant Clareant The Beginnings of a Specialty Chemicals Company

Balint Anna

ISBN: HB: 9783593393742, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 62 halftones, 4 colour illus.

From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This, the first book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successf...

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Crisis and Control Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation

Mayntz Renate

ISBN: PB: 9783593396712, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
299 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein sh...

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Odd Couple International Trade and Labor Standards in History

Huberman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300158700, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labour standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labour and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more a country can competitively partici...

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Solidarity in Strategy Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Spillman Lyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226769578, ISBN: HB: 9780226769561, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually...

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Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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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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China's Growing Role in World Trade

Feenstra Robert C., Wei Shang-Jin

ISBN: PB: 9780226239743, ISBN: HB: 9780226239712, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 104 line illus.

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source o...

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Education

American Universities in a Global Market

Clotfelter Charles T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226110479, ISBN: HB: 9780226110448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 85 tables, 72 line illus.

In higher education, the United States is the preeminent global leader, dominating the list of the world's top research universities. But there are signs that America's position of global leadership will face challenges in the future, as it has in ot...

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