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Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Fishback Price V., Rose Jonathan, Snowden Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...

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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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Business & Economics

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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Wealth and Poverty of Regions Why Cities Matter

Polese Mario

ISBN: PB: 9780226673165, ISBN: HB: 9780226673158, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 halftones, 23 line illus.

As the world becomes more interconnected through travel and electronic communication, many believe that physical places will become less important. But as Mario Polese argues in "The Wealth and Poverty of Regions", geography will matter more than eve...

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Women Studies

Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Iversen Torben, Rosenbluth Frances

ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...

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What's Next? A View from the World's Leading Economists

Hale David, Hale Lyric

ISBN: PB: 9780300170313, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 45 charts, tables & graphs

The world spins in economic turmoil, and who can tell what will happen next? Cold numbers and simple statistical projections don't take into account social, financial, or political factors that can dramatically alter the economic course of a nation o...

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Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes Can the United States Compete in Global Telecommunications?

Frieden Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780300152135, Yale University Press, May 2010
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the myriad ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications. Despite the appearance of robust competition and entrepreneurism in U. S. telecom markets, there is very little of...

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