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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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Law

Collateral Knowledge Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets

Riles Annelise

ISBN: PB: 9780226719337, ISBN: HB: 9780226719320, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through...

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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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Accelerating Energy Innovation Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson Rebecca M., Newell Richard G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226326832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
288 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 9 tables, 1 halftone, 31 line illus.

Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2010 Volume 25

Acemoglu Daron, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002132, ISBN: HB: 9780226002125, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
440 pp., 23x15 cm

"The NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of macroeconomics, addressing central issues within the discipline. These issues range from short-run macroeconomic fluctuations to international economic...

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Public Health

Explorations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903378, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
400 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 105 tables, 73 line illus.

The next two decades will mark a new phase in the demographic transition of the United States as baby boomers become eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Drawing on evidence from the United States and other nations, "Explorations in the Economi...

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Public Health

Economic Aspects of Obesity

Grossman Michael, Mocan Naci

ISBN: HB: 9780226310091, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2011
408 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 98 tables, 4 halftones, 30 line illus.

In the past three decades, the number of obese adults in the United States has doubled and the number of obese children almost tripled, which may lead to increased medical expenditures, productivity loss, and stress on the health care system. Economi...

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Middle East

Business & Economics

Abu Dhabi Oil and Beyond

Davidson Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041539, ISBN: HB: 9781850659785, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Abu Dhabi is a new economic superpower that will soon wield enormous influence across both developing and developed worlds. The principal emirate of the United Arab Emirates federation commands over 8 percent of global oil rese...

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Earth Sciences

Business & Economics

Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

Simmons Kevin M., Sutter Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781878220998, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2011
282 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 28 tables, 30 halftones

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, Simmons and S...

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Business & Economics

Commodity Prices and Markets

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386898, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2011
352 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 77 figures, 58 tables

Fluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects, such as inflation and low rates of economic growth".Commodity Prices and Markets" advances our understanding of th...

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