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Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

Freeman Mark, Pearson Robin, Taylor James

ISBN: HB: 9780226261874, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 18 line illus.

Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their orig...

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Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 19

Somin Ilya, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226767635, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
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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Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

Allen Douglas W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226014746, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 2 line illus.

Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Eur...

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Criminology

Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs

Cook Philip J., Ludwig Jens, McCrary Justin

ISBN: HB: 9780226115122, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 tables, 55 line illus.

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished...

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Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

Costa Dora L., Lamoreaux Naomi R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116341, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 69 tables, 27 line illus.

The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. Probing the long-t...

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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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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226556741, ISBN: HB: 9780226556659, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 2 line illus.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an e...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076591, ISBN: HB: 9780226076577, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2011
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In light of the very public debate on the federal budget this year between Democrats and Republicans, the economic ramifications of tax policy are now more than ever a focus of national attention. This volume is thus an invaluable tool, publishing cu...

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Ancient World

Economic Origins of Roman Christianity

Ekelund Robert B. Jr., Tollison Robert D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226200026, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 1 line illus.

In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically,...

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Secret of Successful Acquisitions Abandoning the Myth of Board Influence

Farschtschian Farsam

ISBN: PB: 9783593394381, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
192 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the fact that mergers and acquisitions are a crucial part of the modern business landscape, the factors that can make the difference between success and failure remain little understood – as evidenced by the disappointing outcomes of the majo...

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