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Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table
The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Hawai'i Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change
ISBN: HB: 9780226592091, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history. The Hawaiian archipelago was the last major land area on the planet to be settled, with Polynesians making the long voyage just under a millennium ago. Our understa...
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£45,00
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Land of Milk and Butter How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry
ISBN: HB: 9780226549507, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 29 line drawings, 25 tables
How and why does Denmark have one of the richest, most equal, and happiest societies in the world today? Historians have often pointed to developments from the late nineteenth century, when small peasant farmers worked together through agricultural c...
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£49,00
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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2018 Volume 19
ISBN: HB: 9780226645247, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2019
250 pp., 23x15 cm
This volume highlights the interaction between public policy and innovation. The first chapter documents the dramatic globalization of R&D and how this development has affected the efforts of  U. S. multinationals to operate on the global technology...
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Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development
ISBN: HB: 9780226426365, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables
Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estima...
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£97,50
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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2017 Volume 18
ISBN: HB: 9780226575872, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
160 pp., 23x15 cm
The eighteenth annual volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the Economy focuses on research that explores the interplay between new technologies and organizational structures, such as networks and corporations. In...
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Stories of Capitalism Inside the Role of Financial Analysts
ISBN: PB: 9780226523422, ISBN: HB: 9780226523392, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables
The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to for...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
ISBN: PB: 9780226392837, ISBN: HB: 9780226392660, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings
Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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What They Do with Your Money How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix it
ISBN: HB: 9780300194418, Yale University Press, June 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren't told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance indus...
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