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Barley, Gold, or Fiat Toward a Pure Theory of Money
ISBN: HB: 9780300188158, Yale University Press, December 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading systems a...
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£100,00
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Education Policy in Developing Countries
ISBN: PB: 9780226078717, ISBN: HB: 9780226078687, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 36 tables
Almost any economist will agree that education plays a key role in determining a country's economic growth and standard of living, but what we know about education policy in developing countries is remarkably incomplete and scattered over decades and...
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£35,00
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£97,00
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Globalization in an Age of Crisis Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226030753, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2013
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 60 line drawings, 12 tables
Along with its painful economic costs, the financial crisis of 2008 raised concerns over the future of international policy making. As in recessions past, new policy initiatives emerged, approaches that placed greater importance on protecting nationa...
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£88,50
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 27
ISBN: HB: 9780226097794, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2013
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taxation policy was a central part of the policy debates over the "fiscal cliff". Given the importance of fiscal issues, it is vital for rigorous empirical research to inform the policy dialogue. In keeping with the NBER's tradition of carrying out r...
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£45,00
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Economy of Words Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks
ISBN: PB: 9780226087627, ISBN: HB: 9780226087597, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
Markets are artifacts of language – so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have be...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences
ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....
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£24,00
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£68,50
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Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720
ISBN: HB: 9780300162462, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 240 colour images, 15 black&white illus.
The world's first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch c...
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£57,00
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Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is
ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...
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£22,00
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America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...
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£26,00
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Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables
The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...
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£31,00
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