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Captive Audience The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Crawford Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205701, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-base...

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Ecology

Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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Business & Economics

Barley, Gold, or Fiat Toward a Pure Theory of Money

Quint Thomas, Shubik Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300188158, Yale University Press, December 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading systems a...

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Business & Economics

Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720

Goetzmann William N., Labio Catherine, Rouwenhorst K. Geert, Young Timothy G., Shiller Robert J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300162462, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 240 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

The world's first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch c...

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Business & Economics

Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is

Baumol William J., Malach Monte, Pablos-Mendez Ariel, Gomory Wu Lilian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Business & Economics

New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production

Marsh Peter T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...

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Business & Economics

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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General

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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