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Business & Economics

Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation

Ricks Morgan

ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...

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Business & Economics

Managing Performing Living Effective Management for a New World – Second Edition

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593502632, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates

In this completely revised and enlarged edition of his classic book, management expert Fredmund Malik offers managers sound professional advice for improving skills in organization, decision-making, supervising, budgeting, and numerous other manageme...

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Education

Myth of Achievement Tests The GED and the Role of Character in American Life

Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226324807, ISBN: HB: 9780226100098, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 153 line drawings, 34 tables

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of...

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Education

Manufacturing Morals The Values of Silence in Business School Education

Anteby Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226323510, ISBN: HB: 9780226092478, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure facu...

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Business & Economics

Meaning of Money in China and the United States The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Martin Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780990505020, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 1 halftone, 1 figure

When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic is of perennial interest – and never more so than...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy

Hulten Charles R., Reinsdorf Marshall B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226204260, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 45 line drawings, 81 tables

More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress

Jorgenson Dale W., Landefeld J. Steven, Schreyer Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226121338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 line drawings, 121 tables

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measure...

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Business & Economics

Maucher and Malik on Management Maxims of Corporate Management – Best of Helmut Mauche's Speeches, Essays and Interviews

Maucher Helmut, Malik Fredmund, Farschtschian Farsam

ISBN: HB: 9783593500256, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
356 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

They are maxims of the successful corporate leader: good managers always focus on their companies, never on themselves; good managers view themselves as being servants to, rather than masters of, the whole; and good managers run their businesses with...

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Business & Economics

Mutiny and Its Bounty Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery

Murphy Patrick J., Coye Ray W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170283, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery – so common in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, mor...

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Earth Sciences

Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example

Reissberg Anja Christina

ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...

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