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Front Page Economics

Suttles Gerald D., Jacobs Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226781983, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
258 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 illus.

In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In "Front P...

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Philosophy

Business & Economics

Immaterial

Gorz Andre

ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...

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Business & Economics

Globalization at Risk Challenges to Finance and Trade

Hufbauer Gary Clyde, Suominen Kati

ISBN: HB: 9780300154092, Yale University Press, November 2010
288 pp., 28.8x23.4 cm, 18 black&white illus.

History has declared globalization the winner of the twentieth century. Globalization connected the world and created wealth unimaginable in the wake of the Second World War. But the financial crisis of 2008-09 has now placed at risk the liberal econ...

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Business & Economics

Law

Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 18

Somin Ilya, Zywicki Todd J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226767628, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
300 pp., 23x15 cm

"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 together ap...

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Business & Economics

Next-Generation Leadership A Toolkit for Teens and Twenty- and Thirty-Year-Olds

Byron William J.

ISBN: PB: 9781589662216, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
291 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing on his five decades of leadership experience, William Byron outlines in this volume the theory, practice, and purpose of leadership. Intuition, humility, empathy, simplicity of lifestyle, and sound speaking and writing skills are all essentia...

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Business & Economics

Labor in the New Economy

Abraham Katharine G., Spletzer James R., Harper Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226001432, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2010
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 tables, 174 line illus.

As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the...

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Business & Economics

Turbulence Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers

Greenberg Edward S., Grunberg Leon, Moore Sarah, Sikora Patricia B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154610, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downs...

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Business & Economics

Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia

Ito Takatoshi, Rose Andrew K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386850, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 figures, 82 tables, 1 halftone

Recent studies show that almost all industrial countries have experienced dramatic decreases in both fertility and mortality rates. This situation has led to aging societies with economies that suffer from both a decline in the working population and...

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Business & Economics

Out of the Pits Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

Zaloom Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226978147, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
238 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

In "Out of the Pits", Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finan...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226076744, ISBN: HB: 9780226076737, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Tax Policy and the Economy" publishes current academic research findings on taxation and government spending that have both immediate bearing on policy debates and longer-term interest. The papers in this volume range from topics as broad as the rel...

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