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Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World The Capacity to Work at Older Ages

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226442877, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2017
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 188 line drawings, 127 tables

In recent years, the retirement age for public pensions has increased across many countries, and additional increases are in progress or under discussion in many more. The seventh stage of an ongoing research project studying the relationship between...

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Business & Economics

Down and Out in the New Economy How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today

Gershon Ilana

ISBN: HB: 9780226452142, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to ch...

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Philosophy

Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics

Heath Eugene, Kaldis Byron

ISBN: PB: 9780226443850, ISBN: HB: 9780226443713, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how gove...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2016 Volume 17

Greenstein Shane M., Lerner Joshua, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226489858, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2017
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's "Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the int...

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Business & Economics

Politics of Value Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

Collins Jane L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226446141, ISBN: HB: 9780226446004, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires...

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Business & Economics

Navigating into the Unknown A New Way for Management, Governance, and Leadership

Malik Fredmund

ISBN: HB: 9783593505824, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2017
152 pp., 17.5x11 cm, 2 colour plates

As we face times of rapid social and technological change, the future may seem like a horizon approaching too quickly. In a few years, almost everything will be different: what we do, how we do it, and why we do it; how we produce and consume; how we...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 30

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226441139, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The research papers in Volume 30 of "Tax Policy and the Economy" make significant contributions to the academic literature in public finance and provide important conceptual and empirical input to policy design. In the first paper, Gerald Carlino and...

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Business & Economics

After the Flood How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought

Glaeser Edward L., Santos Tano, Weyl E. Glen

ISBN: HB: 9780226443546, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables

The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets – and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking cri...

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Business & Economics

Noise Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

Preda Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226427485, ISBN: HB: 9780226427348, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though – the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make t...

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Business & Economics

Conceptualizing Capitalism Institutions, Evolution, Future

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419695, ISBN: HB: 9780226168005, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 5 tables

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism's relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual...

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