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Public Health

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer

Coile Courtney, Milligan Kevin, Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226619293, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables

Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...

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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2019 Volume 20

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226707273, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2020
256 pp., 23x15 cm

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Business & Economics

CEO Leadership Navigating the New Era in Corporate Governance

Cole Thomas A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226665160, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Corporate governance for public companies in the United States today is a fragile balance between shareholders, board members, and CEOs. Shareholders, who are focused on profits, put pressure on boards, who are accountable for operations and profitab...

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Political Science

Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy

Vormann Boris, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...

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America

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Engineered to Sell European Emigres and the Making of Consumer Capitalism

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226660158, ISBN: HB: 9780226660011, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 1 table

The mid-twentieth-century marketing world influenced nearly every aspect of American culture – music, literature, politics, economics, consumerism, race relations, gender, and more. In "Engineered to Sell", Jan L. Logemann traces the transnational ca...

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Business & Economics

Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior

Schlenker Wolfram

ISBN: HB: 9780226619804, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 130 figures, 57 tables

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of...

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Asia

Geocultural Power China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Winter Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780226658353, ISBN: HB: 9780226658216, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 maps, 11 line drawings

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of...

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Business & Economics

Capital in the Nineteenth Century

Gallman Robert E., Rhode Paul W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226633114, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 line drawings, 132 tables

When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926-1998) gathered...

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Business & Economics

Economics of Artificial Intelligence An Agenda

Agrawal Ajay K., Gans Joshua S., Goldfarb Avi

ISBN: HB: 9780226613338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
648 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings, 21 tables

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. I...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645865, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently...

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