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Law

Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection

Calabresi Guido

ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...

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Business & Economics

Fama Portfolio Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama

Fama Eugene F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426846, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
584 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innov...

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Business & Economics

Forging Capitalism Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance

Klaus Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300223590, ISBN: HB: 9780300181944, Yale University Press, January 2017
296 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's "Forging Capitalism"...

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Five Life Decisions How Economic Principles and 18 Million Millennials Can Guide Your Thinking

Michael Robert T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226354446, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 tables

Choices matter. And in your teens and twenties, some of the biggest life decisions come about when you feel the least prepared to tackle them. Economist Robert T. Michael won't tell you what to choose. Instead, he'll show you how to make smarter choi...

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Christianity

Faithonomics Religion and the Free Market

Brekke Torkel

ISBN: HB: 9781849046367, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Faithonomics" uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be anal...

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From Boom to Bubble How Finance Built the New Chicago

Weber Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226294483, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 5 line drawings, 10 tables

During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and co...

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Business & Economics

Foundations of Macroecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Smith Felisa A., Gittleman John L., Brown James H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115474, ISBN: HB: 9780226115337, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
824 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ec...

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Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis

Alesina Alberto, Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780226018447, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
704 pp., 23x15 cm, 120 tables, 30 halftones, 108 line illus.

The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multiplie...

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Business & Economics

From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226922713, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are...

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America

Founding Choices American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Irwin Douglas A., Sylla Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226384757, ISBN: HB: 9780226384740, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 17 line illus.

The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to com...

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