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Darwin's Conjecture The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution

Hodgson Geoffrey M., Knudsen Thorbjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780226005782, ISBN: HB: 9780226346908, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 line drawings, 3 tables, 1 halftone

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the...

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Capitalizing China

Fan Joseph P. H., Morck Randall

ISBN: HB: 9780226237244, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 tables, 51 line illus.

China's economic boom over the last two decades has taken many analysts by surprise, given the ongoing role of central government planning. Its current growth trajectory suggests that the size of its economy could soon surpass that of the United Stat...

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From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226922713, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 2 line illus.

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are...

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Left Behind Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

Edwards Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780226004662, ISBN: HB: 9780226184784, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources – and a history of productivity and wealth – in recent decades the region has fallen further and further b...

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Right Corporate Governance Effective Top Management for Mastering Complexity

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593396958, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2012
324 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 colour illus.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management – one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. Malik's book is written for...

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Better Capitalism Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy

Litan Robert E., Schramm Carl J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146783, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerg...

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Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy

Fullerton Don, Wolfram Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226269146, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 tables, 1 halftone, 27 line illus.

Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As natio...

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Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries

Arrunada Benito

ISBN: HB: 9780226028323, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 line illus.

Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights. When these efforts succeed, owners feel secure enough to invest in their property and banks are able use it as coll...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 26

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923451, ISBN: HB: 9780226923444, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2012
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is no question that the US is facing significant fiscal challenges".Tax Policy and the Economy" research papers make valuable contributions to our understanding of the economic effects of alternative approaches. The papers collected in Volume 2...

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Building a Market The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960

Harris Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226317663, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 62 halftones, 5 line illus.

Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, consumer magazines, a cable t...

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