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Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America

Sklansky Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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Business & Economics

Strategy Navigating the Complexity of the New World

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: PB: 9783593398105, ISBN: HB: 9783593506111, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
400 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 117 colour illus.

In "Strategy", Fredmund Malik once again offers executives in the business world the tools they need to lead their companies. Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, Malik outlines the problems confronting companies...

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Business & Economics

Selling Power Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940

Neufeld John L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226399638, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison'...

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Business & Economics

Strategy for Managing Complex Systems A Contribution to Management Cybernetics for Evolutionary Systems

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593505398, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 halftones, 22 tables

"Strategy for Managing Complex Systems" demonstrates that management and management theory have strong foundations in systems science, and most specifically in the cybernetics of truly complex – organismic, self-organizing, and evolving – systems. As...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 23

Zywicki Todd J., Greve Michael S., Hazlett Thomas W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226337913, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary series that applies world class economic and legal scholarship to the work of the Supreme Court of the United States. Contributions typically provide an economic an...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226262574, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2015
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 59 halftones, 229 line drawings, 136 tables

Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability in...

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Business & Economics

Side Effects and Complications The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform

Mulligan Casey B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226285603, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 colour plates, 4 halftones, 47 tables

The Affordable Care Act will have a dangerous effect on the American economy. That may sound like a political stance, but it's a conclusion directly borne out by economic forecasts. In "Side Effects and Complications", preeminent labor economist Case...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 22

Greve Michael, Hazlett Thomas, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226166667, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
316 pp., 23x15 cm

"Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that seeks to provide a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad ranging and contributions employ explicit o...

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Business & Economics

General

Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...

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