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Cultural Studies

Business & Economics

Building Nature's Market The Business and Politics of Natural Foods

Miller Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501376, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks,...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Business & Economics

Better Bankers, Better Banks Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment

Hill Claire A., Painter Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there's no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copi...

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Business & Economics

Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Sabin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300198973, Yale University Press, November 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the la...

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Business & Economics

Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Colarelli Stephen M., Arvey Richard D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226127156, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings

In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines – including an emphasis on adaptation, evo...

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Business & Economics

Barley, Gold, or Fiat Toward a Pure Theory of Money

Quint Thomas, Shubik Martin

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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Business & Economics

Better Capitalism Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy

Litan Robert E., Schramm Carl J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146783, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerg...

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America

Business & Economics

Building a Market The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960

Harris Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226317663, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 62 halftones, 5 line illus.

Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable t...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Collins Jane L., Mayer Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226114064, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 line drawings, 3 tables, 16 halftones

"Both Hands Tied" studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisc...

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