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Political Arithmetic Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

Fogel Robert William, Fogel Enid M., Guglielmo Mark, Grotte Nathaniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226256610, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case – economists simply didn't have the nec...

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Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 20

Somin Ilya, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226767642, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
300 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Supreme Court Economic Review" is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for scholarship in law and economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy. Its approach is broad-ranging, and the contributions it brings togeth...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2012 Volume 13

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226053585, ISBN: HB: 9780226053448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm

There is considerable debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has intensified as...

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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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America

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226491493, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 8 tables, 12 halftones

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies – in...

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General

Business & Economics

Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Business & Economics

Capitalizing China

Fan Joseph P. H., Morck Randall

ISBN: HB: 9780226237244, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 tables, 51 line illus.

China's economic boom over the last two decades has taken many analysts by surprise, given the ongoing role of central government planning. Its current growth trajectory suggests that the size of its economy could soon surpass that of the United Stat...

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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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Business & Economics

Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Edwards Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780226004662, ISBN: HB: 9780226184784, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources – and a history of productivity and wealth – in recent decades the region has fallen further and further b...

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Business & Economics

Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...

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