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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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Business & Economics
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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Business & Economics
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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Business & Economics
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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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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Business & Economics
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Economics for Humans Second Edition
Nelson Julie A.
ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...
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Africa
Political Science
Critical Terms for the Study of Africa
Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline
ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...
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Islam
Business & Economics
Beyond Debt Islamic Experiments in Global Finance
Rudnyckyj Daromir
ISBN: PB: 9780226552088, ISBN: HB: 9780226551920, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change – yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. "Beyond Debt" describes e...
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Business & Economics
Fighting Financial Crises Learning from the Past
Gorton Gary B., Tallman Ellis W.
ISBN: HB: 9780226479514, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables
If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close...
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Anthropology
Business & Economics
Tight Knit Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion
Krause Elizabeth L.
ISBN: PB: 9780226558073, ISBN: HB: 9780226557915, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps
The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in "Tig...
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