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New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production

Marsh Peter T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...

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America

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Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012 Volume 9

Giavazzi Francesco, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226053271, ISBN: HB: 9780226053134, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for over thirty years. The topics covered in this year's volume fall into four categories: exchange rates, global business cycles, the financial crisis, and unemploy...

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Housing and the Financial Crisis

Glaeser Edward L., Sinai Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226030586, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 125 line drawings, 68 tables

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no differ...

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Why Are You Here and Not Somewhere Else Selected Writings

Davis Harry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226111131, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Harry L. Davis joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1963, and he has since become one of the most influential figures in business education in the United States and abroad. He helped develop the first core leade...

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Global Rivalries Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade

Quark Amy A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050676, ISBN: HB: 9780226050539, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 line drawings, 12 tables

As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it's no sur...

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Great Inflation The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking

Bordo Michael D., Orphanides Athanasios

ISBN: HB: 9780226066950, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 tables, 10 halftones, 84 line illus.

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation...

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Philosophy

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World Without Wall Street?

Morin Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780857420312, Seagull Books, June 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm

As the aftershocks of the latest economic meltdown reverberate throughout the world, and people organize to physically occupy the major financial centers of the West, few experts and even fewer governments have dared to consider a world without the p...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012 Volume 27

Acemoglu Daron, Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226052809, ISBN: HB: 9780226052779, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-seventh edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues a tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic researc...

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Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to E-Commerce

Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226709369, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 24 halftones

From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. With its blue-collar work ethic and an economic history that extends into virtually every segment of American industry, it...

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