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Invisible China How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
ISBN: HB: 9780226739526, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures, 2 tables
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China...
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£22,00
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Willful How We Choose What We Do
ISBN: HB: 9780300246438, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Why do we do the things we do? The classical view of economics is that we are rational individuals, making decisions with the intention of maximizing our preferences. Behaviorists, on the other hand, see us as relying on mental shortcuts and conformi...
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How We Cooperate A Theory of Kantian Optimization
ISBN: PB: 9780300233339, Yale University Press, June 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Game theory assumes that people are self-interested and works from this premise to explain competitive behavior. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for coope...
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£45,00
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Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables
Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...
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£26,50
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£36,00
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Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables
Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...
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£22,50
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£32,00
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Political Origins of Inequality Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All
ISBN: HB: 9780226236797, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a problem of the rich world. Inequality between rich and poor countries, and rich and poor people the world over, is much greater than within countries like America and Britain. It is t...
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Unbalanced The Co-Dependence of America and China
ISBN: PB: 9780300212655, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The modern-day Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship was built on a set of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable co-dependence....
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£16,99
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Economic Regulation and Its Reform What Have We Learned?
ISBN: HB: 9780226138022, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2014
704 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 line drawings, 30 tables
The past thirty years have witnessed a transformation of government economic intervention in broad segments of industry throughout the world. Many industries historically subject to economic price and entry controls have been largely deregulated, inc...
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£88,50
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Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...
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£24,00
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£73,00
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