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Public Health

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs

Aizcorbe Ana, Baker Colin, Berndt Ernst R., Cutler David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables

Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

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Business & Economics

America

How Our Days Became Numbered Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual

Bouk Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226564869, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers", American capitalism embraced "risk" – and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predi...

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Business & Economics

Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development

Lamoreaux Naomi R., Wallis John Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780226426365, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 26 line drawings, 21 tables

Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estima...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

World in Guangzhou Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace

Mathews Gordon, Dan Lin Linessa, Yang Yang

ISBN: PB: 9780226506104, ISBN: HB: 9780226506074, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...

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Business & Economics

Prosperity without Greed How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism

Wagenknecht Sahra, Pickel Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9783593507583, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2017 Volume 18

Stern Scott, Lerner Josh

ISBN: HB: 9780226575872, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2018
160 pp., 23x15 cm

The eighteenth annual volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Innovation Policy and the Economy focuses on research that explores the interplay between new technologies and organizational structures, such as networks and corporations. In...

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Business & Economics

Wrong Turnings How the Left Got Lost

Hodgson Geoffrey M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226505886, ISBN: HB: 9780226505749, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state interven...

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Business & Economics

Polonica

Start-Up Poland The People Who Transformed an Economy

Cienski Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780226306810, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poland in the 1980s was filled with shuttered restaurants and shops that bore such imaginative names as "bread", "shoes", and "milk products", from which lines could stretch for days on the mere rumor there was something worth buying. But you'd be ha...

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Business & Economics

America

Finance in America An Unfinished Story

Brine Kevin R., Poovey Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226502182, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance – and revealed it to be far more arcane and influential than most people could ever have imagined. Any hope of avoiding future crises, it's clear, rest on understa...

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Anthropology

Business & Economics

Stories of Capitalism Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

Leins Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226523422, ISBN: HB: 9780226523392, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to for...

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