Bettering Humanomics
A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey’s latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more “human” science.
2021 144 p. 6 x 9
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76592-1 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00
The Money Illusion
Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
Scott Sumner
The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar.
2021 392 p. 6 x 9 78 line drawings, 10 tables
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77368-1 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.
2022 192 p. 6 x 9
2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81944-0 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00
Leveraged
The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
Edited by Moritz Schularick
An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 79 line drawings, 17 tables
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81693-7 $55.00 Your Price: $44.00
Bankers in the Ivory Tower
The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education
Charlie Eaton
Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.
2022 232 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 2 tables
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72042-5 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00
Private Virtues, Public Vices
Philanthropy and Democratic Equality
Emma Saunders-Hastings
A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.
2022 256 p. 6 x 9
7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81615-9 $30.00 Your Price: $24.00
A Problem of Fit
How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities
Phillip B.
Levine
A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing—how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities.
2022 176 p. 6 x 9 10 line drawings, 13 tables
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81855-9 $25.00 Your Price: $20.00
Fighting Financial Crises
Learning from the Past
Gary B. Gorton and Ellis W. Tallman
An overview of US financial crises between 1873 and 1914 that offers lessons for handling current and future crises.
2021 256 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 12 tables
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78620-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Border Within
The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson
An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 2 tables 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27022-7 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00
A Political Economy of Justice
Edited by Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons
Defining a just economy in a tenuous socialpolitical time.
2022 400 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings
11 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81844-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Bonds of Inequality
Debt and the Making of the American City Destin Jenkins
The Bonds of Inequality offers a penetrating look at the bond market’s role in postwar municipal politics, revealing the bone-deep connections between democracy, racism, and capitalism.
2021 320 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 10 tables
10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72154-5 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
Big Med
Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America
David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns
Big Med is all around us, and bigger is not better. In fact, it’s destroying our health. Dranove and Burns break down how we got here and the steps needed to cultivate a system of better care for all.
2021 336 p. 6 x 9 2 figures, 3 tables
12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66807-9 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
Hayek
A Life, 1899–1950
Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger
The definitive account of the distinguished economist’s formative years.
2022 824 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones
13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81682-1 $50.00 Your Price: $40.00
Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19 F. A. Hayek
A new edition of F. A. Hayek’s three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume.
2022 624 p. 6 x 9
15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78195-2 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
A Philosopher’s Economist
Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
Reconsiders the centrality and legacy of Hume’s economic thought and serves as an important springboard for reflections on the philosophical underpinnings of economics.
2020 328 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-59744-7 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00
Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
Dietrich Vollrath
Vollrath challenges our long-held assumption that growth is the best indicator of an economy’s health.
2022 296 p. 6 x 9 52 figures, 7 tables
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82004-0 $19.00 Your Price: $15.20
Capital in the Nineteenth Century
Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode
Gives permanence and context to Gallman’s influential economic research on growth theory.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 13 line drawings, 132 tables 17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82103-0 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00
Trading Freedom
How Trade with China Defined Early America
Dael A. Norwood
Trading Freedom explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic.
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones, 2 line drawings 19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81558-9 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00
Bankrupt in America
A History of Debtors, Their Creditors, and the Law in the Twentieth Century
Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Bradley A. Hansen
The authors track changes in federal bankruptcy law, ultimately showing how bankruptcy became a central element of the safety net for ordinary Americans.
2020 224 p. 6 x 9 18 line drawings, 8 tables
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67956-3 $55.00 Your Price: $44.00
Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy
India 1947 and Beyond Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy
An essential history of India’s economic growth since 1947 and the legal reforms that have allowed it to settle in the shadow of the stagnating effects of colonial rule.
2022 272 p. 6 x 9 4 line drawings, 14 tables 20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79900-1 $45.00 Your Price: $36.00
Foxconned
Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government
Lawrence Tabak
Powerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide.
2021 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 2 tables
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74065-2 $27.50 Your Price: $22.00
Bulls Markets
Chicago’s Basketball Business and the New Inequality
Sean Dinces
An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicago—arguably for the worse.
2022 336 p. 6 x 9 46 halftones, 25 tables
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82102-3 $35.00 Your Price: $28.00
Insurance Era
Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
Caley Horan
Insurance Era charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing neoliberalism into everyday life.
2021 264 p. 6 x 9 13 halftones
22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78438-0 $40.00 Your Price: $32.00
Crap
A History of Cheap Stuff in America
Wendy A. Woloson
Crap is not necessarily crappy: the cheap crap that makes up our lives is surprisingly insightful, offering a new way to understand ourselves—our values and our desires in the American capitalist culture.
2020 416 p. 6 x 9 11 color plates, 105 halftones
24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66435-4 $29.99 Your Price: $23.99
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
Edited by Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern
2022 648 p. 6 x 9 255 line drawings, 51 tables
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81078-2 $135.00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
Edited by Axel Börsch-Supan and Courtney C. Coile
2021 672 p. 6 x 9 558 line drawings, 33 tables
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-67410-0 $145.00
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The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Ina Ganguli, Shulamit Kahn, and Megan MacGarvie
2020 176 p. 6 x 9 58 line drawings, 48 tables
27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-69562-4 $130.00
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Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel
2021 776 p. 6 x 9 143 figures, 102 tables
28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72817-9 $130.00
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Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior
Edited by Wolfram Schlenker
2019 432 p. 6 x 9 130 figures, 57 tables
32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61980-4 $130.00
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Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics
Edited by Katharine G. Abraham, Ron S. Jarmin, Brian C. Moyer, and Matthew D. Shapiro 2022 488 p. 6 x 9 115 line drawings, 64 tables
33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80125-4 $130.00
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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34
Edited by Robert A. Moffitt
2020 256 p. 6 x 9
34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-70811-9 $60.00
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Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
Volume 2
Edited by Matthew J. Kotchen, James H. Stock, and Catherine D. Wolfram 2021 175 p. 6 x 9
35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80237-4 $60.00
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Innovation and Public Policy
Austan Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones
2022 272 p. 6 x 9 24 line drawings, 11 tables
36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80545-0 $135.00
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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2020
Volume 35
Economics
of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Edited by Petra Moser
2021 304 p. 6 x 9 75 line drawings, 69 tables
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77905-8 $135.00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Working Longer
Edited by Courtney C. Coile, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise
2019 576 p. 6 x 9 320 figures, 19 tables
30 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61929-3 $130.00
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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment
Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and James M. Poterba
2021 480 p. 6 x 9 104 line drawings, 51 tables
31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80058-5 $135.00
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Edited by Martin Eichenbaum and Erik Hurst
2021 512 p. 6 x 9
37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80268-8 $90.00
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Tax Policy and the Economy,
Volume 35
Edited by Robert A. Moffitt 2021 256 p. 6 x 9
38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80285-5 $60.00
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