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Economics
House of Debt
How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
“A concise and powerful account of how the great recession happened and what should be done to avoid another one.”—Wall Street Journal
2015 232 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones 449 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-27165-1 $15.00
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After the Flood
How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought
Edited by Edward L. Glaeser, Tano Santos, and E. Glen Weyl
“A coherent, thought-provoking, and well-written analysis of the causes of the recent financial crises.”—Alberto Bisin, New York University
2017 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables 450 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-44354-6 $55.00
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Big Med
Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America
David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns
“Dranove and Burns point out how big medicine is failing, and how it can be reformed. This book is wonderfully informed and thoughtfully presented.”—David Cutler, Harvard University
2021 336 p. 6 x 9 2 figures, 3 tables 451 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66807-9 $35.00
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden
“McCloskey and Carden show how much better off everyone is today compared to everyone who lived before, and how this is explained not by the usual suspects . . . but simply by the practice of liberty. . . . This is a work for economists, historians, and anyone who wants to understand why the world has become so much better for human beings in the last 250 years.” —Stephen Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs
Edited by Benjamin Lee and Randy Martin
“Derivatives have been a transformative financial innovation but have multiplied risks and complexities. Lee and Martin make an important contribution tracing the history of derivatives, how they work, and why they are important beyond technical finance.” —Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics
2016 312 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 6 line drawings 453 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-39283-7 $32.00
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Clashing over Commerce
A History of US Trade Policy
Douglas A. Irwin
“Irwin outlines [the] long evolution of trade politics from the mercantilist 1640s to the present, when Trump has made trade controversial again by arguing for a renewal of protectionist policies. [His] chronicle—lengthy, detailed, and readable—traces the winding trail that has brought us to the liberal world trading order we enjoy today.”—Wall Street Journal
2019 862 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 21 line drawings, 17 tables 454 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67844-3 $27.50
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Selling Power
Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities Before 1940
John L. Neufeld
“Neufeld’s account of the development of electricity markets in the United States clearly outlines the problems stemming from the industry’s character as a natural monopoly. Chronicling the responses of public officials over time, he explains why each response occurred within the context of political struggle and carefully explains how some policy responses, while solving a current problem, created future problems as the industry evolved and technology changed.”—Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
2016 336 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 26 line drawings, 9 tables 455 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39963-8 $64.00
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Foxconned
Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government
Lawrence Tabak
“A gripping and necessary postmortem on one of the biggest economic development fiascos of our time. Tabak applies a critical lens on the enormous quasi-public industry of business recruitment and how it can be exploitative—shockingly so—especially in job-starved postindustrial regions.”—Angie Schmitt, author of Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
From the National Bureau of Economic Research
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
An Agenda
Edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
2019 648 p. 6 x 9 74 line drawings, 21 tables 457 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-61333-8 $130.00 Your Price: $30.00
U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy
Edited by Richard B. Freeman and Hal Salzman
2018 320 p. 6 x 9 39 line drawings, 61 tables 458 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46833-4 $140.00 Your Price: $30.00
Risk Topography
Systemic Risk and Macro Modeling
Edited by Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy
2014 288 p. 6 x 9 28 line drawings, 14 tables 459 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-07773-4 $118.00 Your Price: $36.00
Well Worth Saving
How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership
“The recent foreclosure crisis rekindled interest in the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC). . . . With Well Worth Saving, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden offer a new history of the program alongside an economic analysis of its costs and benefits. This is a highly useful, well-organized, and interesting book which will be of great interest and use both to researchers and policy makers.”—Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
“Impressive. . . . In this slim volume, the authors have produced a skillful short- and long-term analysis of both mortgage markets and a significant New Deal agency.” —Economic History Review
2013 192 p. 6 x 9 14 line drawings, 10 tables 460 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08244-8 $41.00
