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Business & Economics

Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America

Sklansky Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...

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Cultural Studies

Business & Economics

Building Nature's Market The Business and Politics of Natural Foods

Miller Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501376, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks,...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 31

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226539270, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in "Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31" are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dar...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses Current Knowledge and Challenges

Haltiwanger John, Hurst Erik, Miranda Javier, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226454078, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 85 line drawings, 121 tables

Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company l...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Business & Economics

Money Problem Rethinking Financial Regulation

Ricks Morgan

ISBN: PB: 9780226528120, ISBN: HB: 9780226330327, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 10 line drawings, 2 tables

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many central questions remain unanswered. Should money creation be considered a 'public' or 'private' activity –...

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Business & Economics

Procurement 4.0 A Survival Guide in a Digital, Disruptive World

Batran Alexander, Erben Agnes, Schulz Ralf, Sperl Franziska

ISBN: HB: 9783593506692, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Although digitalization or smart manufacturing might be considered a driving factor behind Procurement 4. 0 – the latest conceptualization of how modern companies procure goods and services – it is far too shortsighted to view Procurement 4. 0 as sim...

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Business & Economics

Political Standards Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy

Ramanna Karthik

ISBN: PB: 9780226528090, ISBN: HB: 9780226210742, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 10 tables

Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in ways that compromise these core principles, to the det...

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Business & Economics

NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2016 Volume 31

Eichenbaum Martin, Parker Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226490199, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2017
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The thirty-first edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" features theoretical and empirical research on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics. The first two papers are rigorous and data-driven analyses of the European financial crisis. Th...

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Business & Economics

Fama Portfolio Selected Papers of Eugene F. Fama

Fama Eugene F.

ISBN: HB: 9780226426846, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
584 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innov...

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