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The Road from Mont Pèlerin
Edited by Philip Mirowski
Edited by Dieter Plehwe
Hardcover June 2009
A Nation of Counterfeiters
Stephen Mihm
Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.
Paperback May 2009
Selling Sounds
David Suisman
Hardcover May 2009
Starved for Science
Robert Paarlberg
Foreword by Norman Borlaug
Foreword by Jimmy Carter
In Starved for Science Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current opposition to farm science in prosperous countries.
Paperback May 2009
To Serve God and Wal-Mart
Bethany Moreton
Hardcover May 2009
Worst-Case Scenarios
Cass R. Sunstein
Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
Paperback May 2009
Indian Work
Daniel H. Usner
Hardcover April 2009
Republic of Debtors
Bruce H. Mann
Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.
Paperback April 2009
Shaping the Industrial Century
Alfred D. Chandler
The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century. He argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearly every major chemical and pharmaceutical firm, demonstrating why some companies forged ahead while others failed.
Paperback April 2009
Access
Laura Frost
Michael R. Reich
Foreword by Tadataka Yamada
Paperback March 2009
Beyond Facts
Edited by Inter-Amer Dev Bank
Hardcover March 2009
A Line Drawn in the Sand
Phyllis J. Kanki
Richard G. Marlink
Paperback March 2009
Unclogging the Arteries
Mauricio Mesquita Moreira
Christian Volpe
Juan Blyde
Paperback March 2009
Government by Contract
Edited by Jody Freeman
Edited by Martha Minow
Explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce capacities as well as legal, economic, and political concerns.
Hardcover February 2009
The Origins of Europe's New Stock Markets
Elliot Posner
Posner explores the causes of Europe’s emergence as a global financial power, addressing classic and new questions about the origins of markets and their relationship to politics and bureaucracy.
Hardcover February 2009
Capitalists, Workers, and Fiscal Policy
Thomas R. Michl
Drawing on the work of the classical-Marxian economists and their modern successors, this book sets forth a new model of economic growth and distribution, and applies it to two major policy issues: public debt and social security.
Hardcover January 2009
Institutional Foundations of Public Finance
Edited by Alan J. Auerbach
Edited by Daniel N. Shaviro
Auerbach integrates economic and legal perspectives on taxation and fiscal policy, offering a provocative assessment of the most important issues in public finance today.
Hardcover January 2009
Tapping the Riches of Science
Roger L. Geiger
Creso M. Sá
American universities are under increasing pressure to maximize their economic contributions. This book offers a rigorous and far-sighted explanation of this controversial and little-understood movement.
Hardcover January 2009
Horses at Work
Ann Norton Greene
Greene argues for recognition of horses’ critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American industrial power, and a new understanding of the reasons for their replacement as prime movers.
Hardcover November 2008
Practical Idealists
Alissa Wilson
Ann Barham
John Hammock
This book will help you make the choices that matter and live your life as a practical idealist. Through examples and exercises, this book explores how to clarify your values and passions, gain relevant skills, find work, use college and graduate school effectively, manage finances, and build a community of support.
Paperback November 2008
The Economic Structure of International Law
Joel P. Trachtman
This book presents policymakers and scholars with an over-arching analytical model of international law, one that demonstrates the potential of international law, but also explains how policymakers should choose among different international legal structures.
Hardcover November 2008
Institutions and Economic Performance
Edited by Elhanan Helpman
Explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. This book is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
Hardcover November 2008
The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy
Edited by Elhanan Helpman
Edited by Dalia Marin
Edited by Thierry Verdier
Presents a new research program that is transforming the study of international trade. Until a few years ago, models of international trade did not recognize the heterogeneity of firms and exporters, and could not provide good explanations of international production networks. Now such models exist and are explored in this volume.
Hardcover November 2008
Killing for Coal
Thomas G. Andrews
This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.
Hardcover October 2008
Total Cure
Harold S. Luft
Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.
Hardcover October 2008
Governing the Metropolis
Edited by Eduardo Rojas
Edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura
Edited by Jose Miguel Fernandez Guell
Translated by Sarah Schineller
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Paperback September 2008
Taxation and Latin American Integration
Edited by Vito Tanzi
Edited by Luiz Villela
Edited by Alberto Barreix
In South and Central America, a movement toward further economic integration has begun. In the hope of helping to make the process smoother, and to foster a better understanding of the policy actions required, the Inter-American Development Bank studied the impact of trade integration on taxes. Twelve of these studies are collected here in this book.
Paperback September 2008
Governing Nonprofit Organizations
Marion R. Fremont-Smith
Fremont-Smith argues that the rules that govern how nonprofits operate are inadequate, and the regulatory mechanisms designed to enforce the rules need improvement. Despite repeated instances of negligent management, self-interest at the expense of the charity, and outright fraud, nonprofits continue to receive minimal government regulation.
Paperback September 2008
Innovation Corrupted
Malcolm S. Salter
In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron’s collapse.
Hardcover June 2008
The Race between Education and Technology
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. During the first eight decades of the twentieth century, the increase of educated workers was higher than the demand for them. This boosted income for most people and lowered inequality. However, the reverse has been true since about 1980. The authors discuss the complex reasons for this educational slow-down and what might be done to ameliorate it.
Hardcover June 2008
Free Riding
Richard Tuck
A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.
Hardcover June 2008
Privatization for the Public Good?
Edited by Alberto Chong
Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.
Paperback May 2008
The Warping of Government Work
John D. Donahue
The divergent paths of public and private employment have intensified a long-standing pattern: elite workers spurn public jobs, while less skilled workers cling to government work as a refuge from a harsh private economy. The Warping of Government Work documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing, or accommodating, the divide between public and private work.
Hardcover May 2008
Adam's Fallacy
Duncan K. Foley
This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.
Paperback April 2008
The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
J. Megan Greene
The rapid growth of Taiwan’s postwar “miracle” economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan’s developmental state.
Hardcover April 2008
The ABCs of RBCs
George McCandless
The ABCs of RBCs is the first book to provide a basic introduction to Real Business Cycle (RBC) and New-Keynesian models. It is designed to teach the economic practitioner or student how to build simple RBC models. Matlab code for solving many of the models is provided, and careful readers should be able to construct, solve, and use their own models.
Hardcover March 2008
The Business of Lobbying in China
Scott Kennedy
Based on over 300 in-depth interviews with company executives, business association representatives, and government officials, this study identifies a wide range of national economic policies influenced by lobbying, including taxes, technical standards, and intellectual property rights. These findings have significant implications for how we think about Chinese politics and economics, as well as government-business relations in general.
Paperback March 2008
Starved for Science
Robert Paarlberg
Foreword by Norman Borlaug
Foreword by Jimmy Carter
In Starved for Science Paarlberg explains why poor African farmers are denied access to productive technologies, particularly genetically engineered seeds with improved resistance to insects and drought. He traces this obstacle to the current opposition to farm science in prosperous countries.
Hardcover March 2008
Outsiders?
Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 2008 Report
Edited by Gustavo Márquez
Despite decades of reform and global integration, many people in Latin America claim they are worse off. This book argues that democratization, macroeconomic stabilization, and globalization have disrupted the traditional labor-market-based paths of integration based on public and formal employment and made those left behind more vulnerable to the traditional forces of discrimination and exclusion.
Paperback March 2008
The Economic History of Byzantium
Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou
Paperback March 2008
China during the Great Depression
Tomoko Shiroyama
The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is not merely to show that China could not escape the consequences of drastic declines in financial flows and trade but also to offer a new perspective for understanding modern Chinese history.
Hardcover March 2008
Brand New China
Jing Wang
One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Wang's experiences in the disparate worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy allow her to share a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system.
Hardcover January 2008
The Dismal Science
Stephen A. Marglin
Insurance may be an efficient way of organizing resources, but the deep social and human ties that constitute community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations. This book dissects the ways in which the foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which individuals are isolated from one another and social connections are impoverished. Marglin presents an account of how this happened and an argument for righting the imbalance that this ideology has fostered.
Hardcover January 2008
Identification for Prediction and Decision
Charles F. Manski
This book is a full-scale exposition of Manski's new methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. He recommends that researchers ask first what can be learned from data alone, and then what can be learned when data are combined with credible weak assumptions. Each chapter juxtaposes developments of methodology with empirical or numerical illustrations.
Hardcover January 2008
Valuing Children
Nancy Folbre
While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.
Hardcover January 2008
Worst-Case Scenarios
Cass R. Sunstein
Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.
Hardcover November 2007

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