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Business & Economics
Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 28
Brown Jeffrey R.
ISBN: HB: 9780226208299, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The papers in Volume 28 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" illustrate the depth and breadth of the research by NBER research associates who study taxation and government spending programs.   The first paper explores whether closely held firms are used a...
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How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education
Brown Jeffrey R., Hoxby Caroline M.
ISBN: HB: 9780226201832, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 54 line drawings, 49 tables
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in differe...
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Business & Economics
End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China
Butollo Florian
ISBN: PB: 9783593501772, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
400 pp., 21x13.9 cm, 40 illus., 35 tables
The Chinese government and international observers argue that China's economy must overcome its excessive dependence on exports if substantial growth in domestic consumption is to be achieved and sustained in the future. But this shift can only occur...
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Education
"So What Are You Going to Do with That?" Finding Careers Outside Academia (Third Edition)
Basalla Susan, Debelius Maggie
ISBN: PB: 9780226200408, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student lo...
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Political Science
Politics of Information Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America
Baumgartner Frank R., Jones Bryan D.
ISBN: PB: 9780226198125, ISBN: HB: 9780226198095, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 figures, 8 tables
How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search". If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need...
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Jewish Studies
Jewish Rhetorics History, Theory, Practice
Bernard-Donals Michael, Fernheimer Janice W.
ISBN: PB: 9781611686401, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors' definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance...
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Happiness and the Law
Bronsteen John, Buccafusco Christopher, Masur Jonathan S.
ISBN: HB: 9780226075495, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 4 tables
Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each another. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people's quality of life. To do this, i...
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America
Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
Brooks Charlotte
ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...
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Christianity
Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)
Brown Peter
ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...
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Psychology
After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
Burnham John C.
ISBN: PB: 9780226211862, ISBN: HB: 9780226081373, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of...
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