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Biography & Memoires
Business & Economics
Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World
Diner Hasia R.
ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...
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Business & Economics
Political Science
Essay on the Principle of Population
Malthus Thomas Robert, Stimson Shannon C.
ISBN: PB: 9780300177411, Yale University Press, February 2018
624 pp., 20.8x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Malthus's "Essay on the Principle of Population" remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989....
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Business & Economics
America
How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
Bouk Dan
ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...
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Business & Economics
Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development
Lamoreaux Naomi R., Wallis John Joseph
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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Anthropology
Business & Economics
World in Guangzhou Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace
Mathews Gordon, Dan Lin Linessa, Yang Yang
ISBN: PB: 9780226506104, ISBN: HB: 9780226506074, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...
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Business & Economics
Prosperity without Greed How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism
Wagenknecht Sahra, Pickel Andreas
ISBN: PB: 9783593507583, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...
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Business & Economics
Innovation Policy and the Economy 2017 Volume 18
Stern Scott, Lerner Josh
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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Business & Economics
Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost
Hodgson Geoffrey M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226505886, ISBN: HB: 9780226505749, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state interven...
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Business & Economics
Polonica
Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy
Cienski Jan
ISBN: HB: 9780226306810, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as "bread", "shoes", and "milk products", from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you'd be ha...
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America
Finance in America An Unfinished Story
Brine Kevin R., Poovey Mary
ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings
The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...
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