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Business & Economics

Education, Skills, and Technical Change Implications for Future US GDP Growth

Hulten Charles R., Ramey Valerie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226567808, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 165 line drawings, 61 tables

Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can hum...

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Business & Economics

General

Economics of Poverty Traps

Barrett Christopher B., Carter Michael, Chavas Jean-Paul, Carter Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...

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Currency Statecraft Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition

Cohen Benjamin J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226587721, ISBN: HB: 9780226587691, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currency gains international appeal...

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Cigarettes, Inc. An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism

Enstad Nan

ISBN: PB: 9780226533315, ISBN: HB: 9780226533285, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Too often, notions of capitalist change rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity – for good or ill – to the rest of the world. In "Cigarettes, Inc"., Nan Enstad creates an in...

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Political Science

Billionaires and Stealth Politics

Page Benjamin I., Seawright Jason, Lacombe Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226586120, ISBN: HB: 9780226586090, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 22 tables

In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to "drain the swamp". But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to hi...

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Belt and Road A Chinese World Order

Macaes Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9781787380028, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agr...

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Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency 250 Milestones in the History of Economics

Medema Steven G.

ISBN: HB: 9781454930082, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2018
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

This beautiful, authoritative volume in the popular Milestones series looks at the vital intersection between business, finance and money. From the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece and the moral contemplations of Medieval Europe to deregulat...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It)

Greenfield Kent

ISBN: HB: 9780300211474, Yale University Press, October 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, Law

Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in "Citizens United" that corporations can claim the same free speech rights as humans. Should corporations be able to claim rights of free speech, religious consc...

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Playful Entrepreneur How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times

Dodgson Mark, Gann David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233926, Yale University Press, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x14 cm

How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encou...

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