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Turbulence Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers

Greenberg Edward S., Grunberg Leon, Moore Sarah, Sikora Patricia B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154610, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downs...

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Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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Out of the Pits Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Zaloom Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226978147, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
238 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finan...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076744, ISBN: HB: 9780226076737, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tax Policy and the Economy" publishes current academic research findings on taxation and government spending that have both immediate bearing on policy debates and longer-term interest. The papers in this volume range from topics as broad as the rel...

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Mathematics

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple

Vinogradov Viatcheslav V.

ISBN: PB: 9788024616575, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
364 pp., 23x15 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! As the field of economics becomes ever more specialized and complicated, so does the mathematics required of economists. With "Mathematics for Economists", expert mathematician Viatcheslav...

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Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Levine Phillip B., Zimmerman David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475813, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 tables, 19 line illus.

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects...

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Essence of Strategic Giving A Practical Guide for Donors and Fundraisers

Frumkin Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226266275, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
192 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 11 line illus.

In the face of global financial problems and stressed government budgets, the ability of private philanthropy to step in and help solve public problems – and support vital private institutions as well – has perhaps never been more important. But how...

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Law

Uncommon Sense Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism

Becker Gary S., Posner Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041025, ISBN: HB: 9780226041018, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2009 Volume 24

Acemoglu Daron, Rogoff Kenneth, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226002101, ISBN: HB: 9780226002095, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2010
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 line illus.

The "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" provides a forum for important debates in contemporary macroeconomics and major developments in the theory of macroeconomic analysis and policy that include leading economists from a variety of fields. The papers and...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2009 Volume 6

Reichlin Lucrezia, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226707501, ISBN: HB: 9780226707495, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2010
500 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 line illus.

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) has met annually in Europe for thirty years. The papers included in this volume discuss openness and the fall and rise of stock market correlations between 1890 and 2001; defaults, unde...

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