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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2010 Volume 11

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473383, ISBN: HB: 9780226473376, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Innovation Policy and the Economy" series provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Issues covered in Volume 11 are an exploration of innovation challenges in the health care...

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Law

Regulation versus Litigation Perspectives from Economics and Law

Kessler Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226432205, ISBN: HB: 9780226432182, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 54 tables, 19 line illus.

The efficacy of various political institutions is the subject of intense debate between proponents of broad legislative standards enforced through litigation and those who prefer regulation by administrative agencies. This book explores the trade-off...

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America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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Demography and the Economy

Shoven John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226754727, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
448 pp., 23.2x15.6 cm, 61 tables, 140 line illus.

Demographics is a vital field of study for understanding social and economic change and it has attracted attention in recent years as concerns have grown over the aging populations of developed nations. Demographic studies help make sense of key aspe...

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Front Page Economics

Suttles Gerald D., Jacobs Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226781983, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
258 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 illus.

In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In "Front P...

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Philosophy

Business & Economics

Immaterial

Gorz Andre

ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...

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Business & Economics

Globalization at Risk Challenges to Finance and Trade

Hufbauer Gary Clyde, Suominen Kati

ISBN: HB: 9780300154092, Yale University Press, November 2010
288 pp., 28.8x23.4 cm, 18 black&white illus.

History has declared globalization the winner of the twentieth century. Globalization connected the world and created wealth unimaginable in the wake of the Second World War. But the financial crisis of 2008-09 has now placed at risk the liberal econ...

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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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Business & Economics

Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds

Byron William J.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662216, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
291 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing on his five decades of leadership experience, William Byron outlines in this volume the theory, practice, and purpose of leadership. Intuition, humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, and sound speaking and writing skills are all essentia...

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Labor in the New Economy

Abraham Katharine G., Spletzer James R., Harper Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226001432, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2010
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 tables, 174 line illus.

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the...

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