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Great Inflation The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking

Bordo Michael D., Orphanides Athanasios

ISBN: HB: 9780226066950, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
592 pp., 23x15 cm, 35 tables, 10 halftones, 84 line illus.

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation...

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Philosophy

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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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012 Volume 27

Acemoglu Daron, Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226052809, ISBN: HB: 9780226052779, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-seventh edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues a tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic researc...

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Business & Economics

Chicago Business and Industry From Fur Trade to E-Commerce

Reiff Janice L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226709369, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 24 halftones

From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. With its blue-collar work ethic and an economic history that extends into virtually every segment of American industry, it...

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Political Science

Good Italy, Bad Italy Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

Emmott Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300197167, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Once Italy was Europe's own emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is a major threat to the future of the Euro, and of the European Union as a whole, as a political sy...

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Business & Economics

Mutiny and Its Bounty Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery

Murphy Patrick J., Coye Ray W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170283, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery – so common in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, mor...

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Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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Business & Economics

Fiscal Policy after the Financial Crisis

Alesina Alberto, Giavazzi Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780226018447, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
704 pp., 23x15 cm, 120 tables, 30 halftones, 108 line illus.

The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multiplie...

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Business & Economics

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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Business & Economics

Realeconomik The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (and How to Avert the Next One)

Yavlinsky Grigory, Bouis Antonina W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192391, ISBN: HB: 9780300159103, Yale University Press, March 2013
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions that many prefer to brush aside: if economists and other scholars, politicians, and business professionals understand the causes of economic crises, as they claim, then why do such damaging crises...

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