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Euro The Battle for the New Global Currency

Marsh David

ISBN: PB: 9780300176742, Yale University Press, July 2011
352 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 22 black&white illus.

In this new, fully revised and updated edition, Marsh tells how complacency and recklessness have holed the Euro below the waterline, with Greece, Ireland and Portugal rescued from ruin via hastily assembled bail-out packages, amid rising resentment...

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Secret of Successful Acquisitions Abandoning the Myth of Board Influence

Farschtschian Farsam

ISBN: PB: 9783593394381, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
192 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the fact that mergers and acquisitions are a crucial part of the modern business landscape, the factors that can make the difference between success and failure remain little understood – as evidenced by the disappointing outcomes of the majo...

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Ecology

Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present

Libecap Gary D., Steckel Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2010 Volume 7

Clarida Richard H., Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9780226107387, ISBN: HB: 9780226107363, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
500 pp., 22x15 cm, 60 line illus.

Covers such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, global business cycles, currency carry trades, asymmetric shocks in currency unions, and studies of the recent financial crisis.

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What's Next? A View from the World's Leading Economists

Hale David, Hale Lyric

ISBN: PB: 9780300170313, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 45 charts, tables & graphs

The world spins in economic turmoil, and who can tell what will happen next? Cold numbers and simple statistical projections don't take into account social, financial, or political factors that can dramatically alter the economic course of a nation o...

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Innovation and the State Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland

Breznitz Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168334, Yale University Press, May 2011
288 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 11 black&white illus.

The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different bu...

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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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