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Institutional Revolution Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World
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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Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development Transforming the Industrial State
ISBN: HB: 9780300169720, Yale University Press, October 2011
752 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 65 black&white illus.
In this book Nicholas Ashford and Ralph Hall offer a unified, transdisciplinary approach for achieving sustainable development in industrialized nations. They present an insightful analysis of the ways in which industrial states are currently unsusta...
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£108,00
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Pivotal Decade How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
ISBN: PB: 9780300171501, Yale University Press, October 2011
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory – the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose pract...
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£25,00
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Controlling Crime Strategies and Tradeoffs
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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£102,00
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Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy
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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£102,00
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Wealth and Poverty of Regions Why Cities Matter
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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£39,00
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Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...
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£24,00
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Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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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£37,50
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25
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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£48,00
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity
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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