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    The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition
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    The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, Third Edition

    The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them - now completely updated and expanded Today's labor markets are witnessing seismic changes brought on by such factors as rising self-employment, temporary...
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    A War on Global Poverty
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    A War on Global Poverty

    A War on Global Poverty provides a fresh account of U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty in the 1970s and 1980s. From the decline of modernisation programs to the rise of microcredit, Joanne Meyerowitz looks beyond familiar histories of...
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    The Inglorious Years
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    The Inglorious Years

    How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms.In the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old...
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    Adam Smith's America
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    Adam Smith's America

    The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national...
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    A Crisis of Beliefs
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    A Crisis of Beliefs

    How beliefs shape financial markets and expose the economy to major risksThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman and...
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    An Infinite History
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    An Infinite History

    *Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award**Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University*"Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers*An innovative history of deep social and...
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    Empires of Vice
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    Empires of Vice

    During the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from imposing a tax on a peculiar...
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    Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
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    Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue

    Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts- and, in repressing it, ended up burning...
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    Migration and Democracy
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    Migration and Democracy

    In the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances-money sent by migrants back to their home countries-and how these resources shape...
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    The Political Economy of the Special Relationship
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    The Political Economy of the Special Relationship

    How America's global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with BritainThe rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter in a larger story about the postwar...
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    The Nobel Factor
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    The Nobel Factor

    How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the worldOur confidence in markets comes from economics, and our confidence in economics is underpinned by the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was first...
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    Big Mind
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    Big Mind

    How collective intelligence can transform business, government, and our everyday livesA new field of collective intelligence has emerged in recent years, prompted by digital technologies that make it possible to think at large scale. This "bigger...
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    Straight Talk on Trade
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    Straight Talk on Trade

    An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is...
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    Under the Influence
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    Under the Influence

    From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter future. Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behaviour, sometimes...
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    Painting by Numbers
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    Painting by Numbers

    A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canon. Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to...
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    The Autocratic Middle Class
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    The Autocratic Middle Class

    How middle class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy. Yet in post-Soviet countries like Russia, where the...
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    Plagues upon the Earth
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    Plagues upon the Earth

    How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from...
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    Outside the Box
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    Outside the Box

    Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money...
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    The Myth of Independence
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    The Myth of Independence

    An in-depth look at how politics and economics shape the relationship between Congress and the Federal ReserveBorn out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the...
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    The Currency of Politics
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    The Currency of Politics

    In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains difficult to articulate its...
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    Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
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    Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceSunday Times Best Business Books of 2020 New York Times Notable 100Science News Favorite Books of 2020 Inside Higher Ed, Best Books of 2020...
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    Patient Capital
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    Patient Capital

    How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problemsThere has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change and...
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    The Party and the People
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    The Party and the People

    Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance...
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    Democracy and Prosperity
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    Democracy and Prosperity

    A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global...
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    Porcelain
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    Porcelain

    A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China - but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king...
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    The Deportation Machine
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    The Deportation Machine

    The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first...
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    Currency Power
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    Currency Power

    Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political,...
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    Darkness by Design
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    Darkness by Design

    An expose of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced...
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    What's the Matter with Delaware?
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    What's the Matter with Delaware?

    How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us.The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why...
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    Digital Cash
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    Digital Cash

    The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators-from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrenciesBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is...
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    Our Great Purpose
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    Our Great Purpose

    Hanley shows how Smith set forth a vision of the worthy life that is uniquely suited to people today. Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see...
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    How Growth Really Happens
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    How Growth Really Happens

    A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century. Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to...
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    Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior
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    Markets, Games, and Strategic Behavior

    From a pioneer in experimental economics, an expanded and updated edition of a textbook that brings economic experiments into the classroom Economics is rapidly becoming a more experimental science, and the best way to convey insights from this research...
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    The Wealth of Religions
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    The Wealth of Religions

    How religious beliefs and practices can influence the wealth of nationsWhich countries grow faster economically-those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them? Does religious participation matter? Why do some countries...
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    How the Internet Became Commercial
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    How the Internet Became Commercial

    In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible...
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    Why Philanthropy Matters
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    Why Philanthropy Matters

    Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation--and the world--has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an...
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    The Infidel and the Professor
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    The Infidel and the Professor

    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for...
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    How Global Currencies Work
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    How Global Currencies Work

    A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency--the British...
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    The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default
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    The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default

    An integrated approach to the economics of sovereign defaultFiscal crises and sovereign default repeatedly threaten the stability and growth of economies around the world. Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador provide a unified and tractable theoretical...
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    Unelected Power
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    Unelected Power

    Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the...
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    The Globalization of Inequality
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    The Globalization of Inequality

    In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging...
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    The Story of Silver
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    The Story of Silver

    How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American...
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    Reputation
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    Reputation

    A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary life Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by...
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    Beyond the Invisible Hand
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    Beyond the Invisible Hand

    One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has,...
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    The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
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    The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

    Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly...
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    The Moral Economists
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    The Moral Economists

    A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted...
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    Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
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    Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean

    How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutionsFrom around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This...
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    Capital and Collusion
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    Capital and Collusion

    Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries? Capital and Collusion explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects. Hilton Root examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty,...
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