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Book SynopsisDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb. In Eating the Ocean, Brian Payne explores how government-funded marketing encouraged consumers to increase their seafood consumption, and how this advertising endeavour contributed to the collapse of the nation’s fisheries.Trade Review“Eating the Ocean offers insights into an important – but entirely neglected – aspect of the many wrongheaded fisheries policies of the twentieth century that have culminated in the dreadful situation of so many of the world’s current fisheries. Brian Payne makes a clear and very well-documented case that it was the focus on consumption that led to overproduction, overfishing, and a tremendous waste of resources.” Jennifer Hubbard, Toronto Metropolitan University and author of A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898–1939“The chapters in this book seamlessly blend into each other, making for a coherent whole, and Payne makes good use of his extensive array of sources. The narrative is laid out in an absorbing way as Payne takes great care to assign agency and voice to a vast set of actors, involved more or less directly in the fisheries business. appreciated. This study will surely find an audience outside the fisheries history specialization. It makes for an engaging reading for students and scholars of environmental, economic, and food and nutrition history, and gender and media studies, as well as those generally interested in the history of consumerism.” H-Environment

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Book SynopsisThis study examines claims that vulnerability existed in Western economic relations with the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from 1970-1990, describing historical evidence that refutes these assumptions and highlights the weaknesses in their arguments.

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Book SynopsisThe first all-inclusive, single-volume guide to the history of modern Japan-conveniently divided into easy-to-use sections that provide a narrative, topical compendium, resource guide, and selected documentsTrade ReviewThis is a very good book... [Allinson's] historical narrative is excellent. It is spare in the trivia that hinder general readers, and rich in analysis and interpretation. -- Louis G. Perez Journal of Asian History In the Columbia Guide, Gary Allinson has given us an innovative and reliable narrative and usable reference tools for Japan's modern history. It has practical value as an introduction to the study of Japan and as a reference volume for Japanologists. -- Thomas W. Burkman The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsI: Historical Narrative 1. Preserving Autonomy, 1850--1889 2. Integrating the Nation, 1890--1931 3. Fighting for Development, 1932--1973 4. Adapting to Affluence, 1974--Present II: Topical Compendium 1. Japan 2. Emperors 3. Political Leaders 4. Military Leaders 5. Business Leaders 6. Business Associations, Enterprises, and Firms 7. Bureaucracy 8. State-Guided Organizations 9. Political Parties 10. Opposition Movements 11. Education 12. Male Writers 13. Female Writers III: Resource Guide 1. Printed Resources 2. Visual Resources 3. Electronic Resources

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn its celebration of individuality, portraiture became a fundamental art form of American democracy. Karl Kusserow and his colleagues explore one of the most important portrait collections in the country. Beginning with Matthew Pratt's portrait of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden and John Trumbull's great full-length image of Alexander Hamilton it showcases U.S. presidents and titans of finance, painted by many of the era's prominent portraitists. There is fascinating material here for readers of many interests: history, biography, business, architecture, and art. In our age of Occupy Wall Street, and its issues of money and power, this book couldn't be more timely. -- John Wilmerding, Professor emeritus of American Art, Princeton University This volume provides a rare look at institutional portraits and their meanings and uses. Journal of American History An impressive collection of essays about an important but neglected collection of art. -- John Ott CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction, by Karl Kusserow Portraiture's Use, and Disuse, at the Chamber of Commerce and Beyond, by Karl Kusserow The Capitalist Portrait, by Paul Staiti Exercising Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce and the Community of Interest, by Elizabeth Blackmar Portraits in the Great Hall: The Chamber's "Voice" on Liberty Street, by Daniel Bluestone "The Whole Lustre of Gold": Framing and Displaying Power at the Chamber of Commerce, by David L. Barquist Memory, Metaphor, and Meaning in Daniel Huntington's Atlantic Cable Projectors, by Karl Kusserow Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA rigorous study. -- Anna Fifield Financial Times This book belongs on the list of required reading. -- Claudia Rosett New York Sun This is a haunting, exasperating, sobering look at an ongoing tragedy. -- Terry Hong The Bloomsbury Review The quality of analysis and prose is consistently high throughout. -- Brian Myers Acta Koreana A comprehensive and penetrating account. Swarthmore College Bulletin A readable, well-researched, and insightful analysis... Highly recommended. Choice Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform offers a systematic bird's eye view of the fundamental causes and consequences of North Korea's famine. -- Chung Min Lee Asia Policy Backed by data treated with appropriate caution, Haggard and Noland cogently present the sad North Korean story... [An] impressive work. The Lancet Famine in North Korea is as good as the best of its genre. -- Raghav Gaiha Development and Change [An] essential book. -- Stephen Devereux Journal of Economic Literature This book will be of interest to those in the Korean studies field as well as among humanitarian and public policy circles -- Suzy Kim The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Foreword, by Amartya Sen Preface 1. Introduction: Famine, Aid, and Markets in North Korea Part I. Perspectives on the famine 2. The Origins of the Great Famine 3. The Distribution of Misery: Famine and the Breakdown of the Public Distribution System Part II. The Dilemmas of Humanitarian Assistance 4. The Aid Regime: The Problem of Monitoring 5. Diversion 6. The Political Economy of Aid Part III: Dealing with a Changing North Korea 7. Coping, Marketization, and Reform: New Sources of Vulnerability 8. Conclusion: North Korea in Comparative and International Perspective Appendix 1: Illicit Activities Appendix 2: The Scope of the Humanitarian Aid Effort Appendix 3: The Marketization Balance Sheet Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran is a work of great originality and a major innovation in the historiography of Iran and surrounding regions. -- Carter Findlay, Ohio State University, and author The Turks in World History An excellent book that stands out for its innovative and perceptive research. -- Ehsan Yarshater, editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica In an extraordinary mix of erudite scholarship and elegant presentation, Richard W. Bulliet reveals Abbasid Iran's central place in world history during two key centuries. His skill in unlocking the balance of structural change and human agency makes this book a brilliant model for all students of social change. -- Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh, and author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture This book is not only an almost unique example of highly readable historiography; it is a masterpiece of methodology and precise argumentation. Richard W. Bulliet remarks that his personal affections as a historian have not been for heroes but for ordinary men and women. Therefore he is constantly in search for those determinants which influence immediately and permanently the decisions of these people. His methods to trace these determinants are absolutely brilliant and may serve as models not only for the Middle East but for any part of our world. -- Bert Fragner, Institute of Iranian Studies/Austrian Academy of Sciences Bulliet offers an innovative, provocative analysis that demonstrates the considerable significance of the era for Iranian, Islamic and world history. Choice This slim volume is packed with ideas. It contains a highly original, creative, thought-provoking, and clear argument -- Michael Morony Speculuma Journal of Medieval Studies A fine history of Iran... Any college-level Middles East studies collection needs this in-depth survey. Midwest Book Review Bulliet writes with candor about the difficulties of attempting this kind of history and offers a tantalizing invitation to others. Technology and Culture I would describe Bulliet's approach as innovative... Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate WorldTable of ContentsPreface 1. How to Identify a Cotton Boom 2. Islam and Cotton 3. The Big Chill 4. Of Turks and Camels 5. A Moment in World History Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeith Roberts knows his history and is highly informed on the nature of today's comparable instruments and institutions. By placing his story within changing political, social, and cultural settings and by presenting it in a fascinating, well-written way unencumbered by technical jargon, he opens a new field in the discipline of business history. -- Alfred D. Chandler, emeritus, Harvard Business School, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for history Business history has largely ignored the ancient world, while in fact there is considerable evidence that business played an important in it. This book provides an accessible, well written validation of this argument. -- Karl Moore, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University An excellent book. Booklist Roberts's well-documented, readable book provides valuable insight into the past and lessons for the present...highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by William H. McNeill Preface List of Terms Introduction 1 Business in the Ancient Middle East 1. The Beginning 2. Middle Eastern Empires, 1600-323 B.C.E. 2 Business in Ancient Greece 3. Markets and Greece 4. Business in Athens 5. Hellenistic History: Prologue to Revolution 6. The Hellenistic Business Environment 7. Hellenistic Business 3 Business in Ancient Rome 8. The Early Roman Republic 9. The Late Roman Republic, 201-31 B.C.E. 10. The Principate, 31 B.C.E.-192 C.E. 11. Roman Society 12. Roman Businesses 13. The Downfall of Ancient Business Concluding Note Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeith Roberts knows his history and is highly informed on the nature of today's comparable instruments and institutions. By placing his story within changing political, social, and cultural settings and by presenting it in a fascinating, well-written way unencumbered by technical jargon, he opens a new field in the discipline of business history. -- Alfred D. Chandler, emeritus, Harvard Business School, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for history Business history has largely ignored the ancient world, while in fact there is considerable evidence that business played an important in it. This book provides an accessible, well written validation of this argument. -- Karl Moore, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University An excellent book. Booklist Roberts's well-documented, readable book provides valuable insight into the past and lessons for the present...highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by William H. McNeill Preface List of Terms Introduction 1 Business in the Ancient Middle East 1. The Beginning 2. Middle Eastern Empires, 1600-323 B.C.E. 2 Business in Ancient Greece 3. Markets and Greece 4. Business in Athens 5. Hellenistic History: Prologue to Revolution 6. The Hellenistic Business Environment 7. Hellenistic Business 3 Business in Ancient Rome 8. The Early Roman Republic 9. The Late Roman Republic, 201-31 B.C.E. 10. The Principate, 31 B.C.E.-192 C.E. 11. Roman Society 12. Roman Businesses 13. The Downfall of Ancient Business Concluding Note Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWarren Buffett has talked extensively about his investment philosophy but unfortunately less so on actual investments. By digging up long forgotten annual reports and sharing his own thoughtful insights, Yefei Lu does an excellent job of filling in the missing pieces of the puzzle in understanding how Buffett invests. -- Robert Vinall, CEO, RV Capital In the crowded market for books about Warren Buffett, portfolio manager Yefei Lu has written a uniquely valuable, information-packed volume. This instant classic analyzes twenty of Buffett's most notable investments, starting in 1958 and continuing through to today. A must read! -- John Mihaljevic, publisher, The Manual of Ideas A simple and useful analysis of Warren Buffett's twenty key investments over the course of his fifty-plus-years career. Lu has done a great job in illustrating the key factors that Buffett paid attention to in assessing the risk-reward profile of each investment. There are many lessons to be learned in this book for anyone interested in long-term investing. -- John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, Exor S.p.A. Yefei Lu does us all a great favor in making it so easy to follow him as he looks back at the key investments Buffett made throughout his career. Lu provides his own analysis of what Buffett would have seen, and invites us to sit in Buffett's shoes ourselves by providing as much primary source information as possible-a monumental research effort by any measure. One even has the feeling of reaching certain critical investment insights, right alongside Buffett, that greatly influenced his development as an investor. -- Joel Cohen, MIT Investment Management Company For serious investors and analysts eager to transcend the cult of personality around Buffett and discern what actually makes him great, this study comes highly recommended. Publishers Weekly Recommended for any investor or student seeking financial expertise. Library Journal [Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett] provide[s] great insights into deep value investing. Seeking Alpha By examining twenty of Warren Buffett's investments over a fifty-year period from 1960 through 2011, Yefei Lu discusses Buffett's likely analysis of each one and the lessons to be learned from them. Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett should appeal to value investors and those wanting to benefit from Buffett's investment experience. -- M. Ali Khan, Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University uniquely valuable, information-packed volume... By digging up long forgotten annual reports and sharing his own thoughtful insights, Yefei Lu does an excellent job filling in the missing pieces of the puzzle in understanding how Buffest invests. Value Walk The most detailed analysis to date of Buffet's long-term investment portfolio. Value Walk Lu's work is a must-have for anyone teaching or studying finance. Even if you have a shelf full of books about Warren Buffett and his investing style, this is an excellent edition... Essential. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Partnership Years (1957-1968) 1. 1958: Sanborn Map Company 2. 1961: Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company 3. 1964: Texas National Petroleum Company 4. 1964: American Express 5. 1965: Berkshire Hathaway Part II: The Middle Years (1968-1990) 6. 1967: National Indemnity 7. 1972: See's Candies 8. 1973: The Washington Post 9. 1976: GEICO 10. 1977: The Buffalo Evening News 11. 1983: Nebraska Furniture Mart 12. 1985: Capital Cities/ABC 13. 1987: Salomon Inc.-Preferred Stock Investments 14. 1988: Coca-Cola Part III: The Late Years (1990-2011) 15. 1989: US Air Group 16. 1990: Wells Fargo 17. 1998: General Re 18. 1999: MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company 19. 2007-2009: Burlington Northern 20. 2011: IBM Part IV: Lessons Learned 21. Evolution of Buffett's Investment Strategy 22. What We Can Learn from Buffett Appendix A Appendix B Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that commercial surveillance has played in monitoring Americans' economic lives.Trade ReviewWho deserves credit? Who is a prime borrower, and who is subprime? The stakes of these questions could not be higher: loans are essential to the education, transport, and housing of millions. Lauer has written a compelling history of how businesses assess creditworthiness, from nineteenth-century trade associations to contemporary data science mavens. Lucid and packed with fascinating detail, Creditworthy is an essential guide to the intersection of finance and surveillance. -- Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Clearly written, well researched, and wide ranging, Creditworthy provides a fresh account of the evolution of credit agencies in the United States. By combining insights from business history and cultural studies, Lauer probes the sometimes unsettling role of corporate surveillance in the making of financial identity. -- Richard R. John, Columbia University At last! A book that drills down into the history of consumer credit-scoring and demonstrates its massive contribution to our daily experience of contemporary surveillance. Not just a vital chronicle of a hitherto hidden history but a principled account of what happens when human value is reduced to monetizing consumer details. Creditworthy penetrates to the core of contemporary capitalism's disturbing obsession with personal data. -- David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada Consumer credit reporting is ubiquitous, but its pioneering role in the surveillance of consumers has been poorly understood-until now. Josh Lauer has dug deep into the historical sources and marshaled his findings into a rich and cohesive narrative that encompasses business dynamics, social norms, technology, and regulation. This book will become the indispensable source on the history of both consumer credit reporting and the surveillance society. -- Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford Josh Lauer has written an important book for anyone interested in the history of consumer credit. Long before there were FICO scores, consumers' creditworthiness was being assessed and considered. Without the developments Lauer documents in this notable work, it is unlikely consumer credit would have exploded as it did in the early twentieth century. A must read! -- Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley [A] fascinating study of the credit-rating industry's central role in creating the 'modern surveillance society.' ... Lauer's top-down economic history is a thorough, enlightening, and long-overdue contribution to the field. Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “A Bureau for the Promotion of Honesty”: The Birth of Systematic Credit Surveillance2. Coming to Terms with Credit: The Nineteenth- Century Origins of Consumer Credit Surveillance3. Credit Workers Unite: Professionalization and the Rise of a National Credit Infrastructure4. Running the Credit Gantlet: Extracting, Ordering, and Communicating Consumer Information5. “You Are Judged by Your Credit”: Teaching and Targeting the Consumer6. “File Clerk’s Paradise”: Postwar Credit Reporting on the Eve of Automation7. Encoding the Consumer: The Computerization of Credit Reporting and Credit Scoring8. Database Panic: Computerized Credit Surveillance and Its Discontents9. From Debts to Data: Credit Bureaus in the New Information EconomyEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn expansive analysis of investing triumphs and failures, with a discussion of what investing will (and should) look like in the future.Trade ReviewA tour de force look at investment from previously unseen perspectives. -- Barry Ritholtz, columnist for Bloomberg View and the Washington Post This important, well-written, and engaging book covers 4,000 years of investing history with an emphasis on the last fifty years, where so much has been happening. Full of insights, interesting people, and enduring wisdom. -- Charley Ellis, author of What It Takes and Winning the Loser's Game Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing have delivered a truly impressive history of investments and the investment-management business, starting from its earliest origins in the ancient world to its most recent and innovative forms, for example, the hedge funds, private-equity pools, and other forms of alternative investments in the twenty-first century. It is not only a complete history but a well-organized and analytical one, built with continual reference to the important principles of business and investing. -- Jay Light, dean emeritus, Harvard Business School For most of recorded history few people had wealth, and there were few options for investing it. Reamer and Downing show how that changed dramatically over the past two to three centuries. Today the vast middle classes of developed countries have joined the rich in having massive amounts of wealth to invest. Asset classes available to investors have proliferated, as have professional investment managers. This well-researched book is at once a welcome addition to the literature of financial history and a guide to navigating the complex world of modern investment. -- Richard Sylla, New York University Stern School of Business An easy-to-read primer on stock market investment, traced back from today to Greek and Roman times so that we may understand how we arrived at the present system of investment management and investment products. -- Janette Rutterford, Open University and University of York The substance is priceless, the chronology first-rate, and the writing style impeccable. I didn't expect to read it with such care, but Reamer and Downing drew me into their net and captured me. A splendid book that will be part of serious research on finance and mutual funds for decades to come, maybe even longer. -- John C. Bogle, founder of Vanguard A reader's time and energy devoted to it are likely to yield competitive returns. Institutional Investor Worthy and useful. Financial History [Reamer and Downing] are right that the democratization of investment is, on the whole, good news. The Economist The merit of this book is that it helps us reflect on the essential role that investment plays in human enterprise. It encourages the reader to think of investment as providing a mechanism for economic and social change. Economic History Review [Investment: A History's] value lies in providing a historical context for today's investment landscape. And it does that in a remarkably interesting way. Reading the MarketsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Investment Challenge 1. A Privilege of the Power Elite 2. The Democratization of Investment: Joint-Stock Companies, the Industrial Revolution, and Public Markets 3. Retirement and Its Funding 4. New Clients and New Investments 5. Fraud, Market Manipulation, and Insider Trading 6. Progress in Managing Cyclical Crises 7. The Emergence of Investment Theory 8. More New Investment Forms 9. Innovation Creates a New Elite Conclusion: Investment in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about a host of revolutionary technologies that have transformed society.Trade ReviewJoe Carlen delves in primary and secondary sources, including texts on modern management, and presents them in readable and attractive prose. A Brief History of Entrepreneurship is a light and enjoyable read. -- Ali Kahn, Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University This enjoyable book is full of great stories and practical ideas that any entrepreneur can use to be more successful faster. -- Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth Covering millennia and the whole planet, Carlen provides us with the fascinating story of how those individuals taking risks in the search for profits not only adapted and responded to seemingly unsurmountable challenges but also (and more importantly) shaped the world we live in. -- Marcelo Bucheli, author of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 A Brief History of Entrepreneurship is an unbelievably enthralling and inspirational book, especially so for enthusiasts, practitioners and students of entrepreneurship and business. -- Sapphire Ng Impeccable Business Entrepreneurs will come to better understand who they are and what they do by reading this book... Highly recommended. CHOICE Carlen's enlightening book considers many aspects of the historical development of entrepreneurship and will attract business-minded readers. Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. "One Shekel of Your Private Silver" 2. The Pirates of Phoenicia 3. The Reluctant Romans 4. An Enterprising Faith 5. Flying Money and Capitalist Monks 6. Western Europe and a "New World" of Profit 7. Captains of the Revolution 8. The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity 9. Flattening the World and Colonizing Space Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. It contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. Determinants of Health explains how the economic choices people make influence health and health behaviors.Trade ReviewA volume of Grossman's selected works is long overdue. One of the founders of the field of health economics, he has been an incredibly prolific researcher, and there is enormous value to having his seminal papers available in book form. -- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University They say that success has many fathers - and one clear share of paternity for the incredibly successful field of health economics belongs to Mike Grossman. His work on health capital defined the framework for economists' modeling health outcomes, and his broad empirical agenda has led the way in applying the model. And his research agenda on addictive behaviors paved the way for the entry of this area into mainstream health economics. This book is a terrific chance for those inside and outside the field to reflect on Mike's many accomplishments. -- Jonathan Gruber, MIT Michael Grossman is one of the founders of the field of health economics, who has contributed enormously to our understanding of the demand for health, the relationship between education and health, determinants of infant health, and the economics of risky health behaviors. This volume of his best, most often-cited articles (which are required reading in graduate courses in health economics) is long overdue. I use and cite these papers routinely, and this volume will have a prominent place on my bookshelf, next to the works of Gary Becker. -- John Cawley, Cornell University, coeditor of the Journal of Health Economics This volume collects papers that rest on and flow from Michael Grossman's seminal 1972 model of health capital. The coherent and impressive body of work informs and serves as a "hypothesis generating machine." Discerning readers will be inspired to push the frontier of knowledge about the rational production of health. -- Dean Lillard, The Ohio State University Michael Grossman was the original intellectual leader in the economics of population health and health behaviors, and his leadership internationally has persisted over five decades. This book assembles his work from disparate sources in one place. His commentaries on his studies provide helpful perspective, especially for relative newcomers to the field. However, even old-timers are likely to discover papers relevant to their own work that they wish they had read previously. -- Frank Sloan, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by John MullahyIntroduction and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. The Demand for Health: Theoretical Underpinnings and Empirical ResultsIntroduction to Part 11. On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health, by Michael Grossman2. The Human Capital Model, by Michael GrossmanAfterword to Part 1Part 2. The Relationship between Health and SchoolingIntroduction to Part 23. The Correlation between Health and Schooling, by Michael Grossman4. An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence, by Robert A. Shakotko, Linda N. Edwards, and Michael Grossman5. Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan, by Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman, and Ted Joyce6. Women’s Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey, by Mehmet Alper Dinçer, Neeraj Kaushal, and Michael GrossmanAfterword to Part 2Part 3. Determinants of Infant Health with Special Emphasis on Public Policies and ProgramsIntroduction to Part 37. Variations in Infant Mortality Rates among Counties of the United States: The Roles of Public Policies and Programs, by Michael Grossman and Steven Jacobowitz8. Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the United States: A Reduced Form Model, by Hope Corman and Michael Grossman9. Birth Outcome Production Functions in the United States, by Hope Corman, Theodore J. Joyce, and Michael Grossman10. Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City, by Michael Grossman and Theodore J. Joyce11. The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan, Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Jin-Tan LiuAfterword to Part 3Part 4. The Economics of Unhealthy BehaviorsIntroduction to Part 412. The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking, by Eugene M. Lewit, Douglas Coate, and Michael Grossman13. Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age, and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities, by Henry Saffer and Michael Grossman14. Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol Use, by Douglas Coate and Michael Grossman15. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption, by Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman, and Kevin M. Murphy16. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction, by Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman, and Kevin M. Murphy17. An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels, by Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, and Ismail Sirtalan18. The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach, by Michael Grossman and Frank J. Chaloupka19. An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, by Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Henry Saffer20. Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity, by Shin-Yi Chou, Inas Rashad, and Michael Grossman21. Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths, by Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin, and Roy WadaAfterword to Part 4ReflectionsIndex

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Book SynopsisA seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body of health economics literature.Trade ReviewA most remarkable study, which ranks among the very most important and pioneering ones in health economics. -- Gary S. Becker A seminal work in health economics, which led to a major stream of literature dealing with the determinants of the health status of the population. -- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University Grossman's The Demand for Health did for health economics what Gary Becker's Human Capital did for labor economics by describing the broad, integrative power of human capital theory. -- Robert Michael, University of Chicago The Demand for Health revolutionized economists' theorizing about health. -- Arleen A. Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles The Demand for Health quickly had a major impact on health economics and has continued to inspire streams of research ever since. -- Victor Fuchs, Stanford University A pathbreaking work on the demand for health, the production of health, and health capital. -- John Mullahy, University of Wisconsin An elegant study in the tradition of Becker, using micro-economic methods to explore an area of non firm capital formation, and then ingeniously exploiting survey data to test some interesting theoretical propositions. -- J. D. Pole Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A ground breaking work which has produced a model that is theoretically sound, intuitively appealing, and yields significantly testable implications. -- Ronald Anderson The Journal of Economic Literature Grossman's theoretical model, which is a major innovation, treats the demand for health (and the derived demand for medical care) as determined in the context of a life-cycle model of human capital investment. -- David Salkever American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsList of TablesForeword to the 2017 EditionForeword to the 1972 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Summary1. A Stock Approach to the Demand for Health2. The Shadow Price of Health3. The Pure Consumption Model4. An Empirical Formulation of the Model5. Empirical Results: The Norc Sample6. Joint Production and the Mortality DataAppendix A. Utility MaximizationsAppendix B. Derivation of Investment Model FormulasAppendix C. Derivation of Consumption Model FormulasAppendix D. Statistical Properties of the ModelAppendix E. Additional Empirical ResultsAppendix F. Sources and Methods: Mortality AnalysisNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisChina’s dismantling of the Mao-era commune system under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment. Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and laid the foundation for future rapid growth.Trade ReviewIn this thought-provoking volume, Eisenman offers a unique analysis of China's most important local institution in Mao's time: the people's commune. * Choice *Mr. Eisenman calls for readers to look anew at one of the darker periods of human history. It's a worthy intellectual exercise and a useful check on lazy approaches to China's modern history. * Wall Street Journal *Joshua Eisenman brings a refreshing perspective to the field because his book challenges the mainstream evaluation – both inside and outside China – of the era of Mao Zedong. -- Mobo Gao * China Information *The book is well researched, drawing on careful readings of government documents, newspapers and other materials from the period. -- Li Zhang * Journal of Asian Studies *Incredibly well-researched . . . Red China’s Green Revolution is a fascinating book. -- Fabio Lanza * Asia Maior *This book is unquestionably well-researched. -- Brian DeMare * Journal of Chinese History *Exceptionally written. -- John A. Donaldson * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Red China’s Green Revolution is a great book. It develops an innovative and contrarian interpretation of China’s rural communes, describing a technological revolution that occurred in China’s countryside in the 1970s. What makes this book truly outstanding is that Eisenman provides new perspectives on the importance of commune organization and incentive structures, as well as a reassessment of what Maoism meant in the lives of ordinary rural people. One after another, he drags into the sunshine topics that have been overshadowed in recent years by over-simplification and myth-making. The book concludes with a compelling new narrative of elite politics in the late 1970s that explains why the commune was ultimately abolished. -- Barry Naughton, Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs, University of California, San DiegoThis is a truly important book. Eisenman shows how the People’s Communes created contemporary China, both through what they built and through what they destroyed. His work is of enormous significance for anyone trying to understand China’s road from revolution to reform. -- Odd Arne Westad, S. T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard UniversityRed China’s Green Revolution revolutionizes our understanding of the Maoist period and history's biggest experiment with collective agriculture. It challenges the widely held view that the commune was a failure that required privatization, and thus calls into question the very basis by which structural reforms have been legitimated and propagated to shape economic development, not just in China, but around the globe. Everyone who studies contemporary China—and, indeed, the entire neo-liberal project—must confront this book. -- Marc Blecher, James Monroe Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies, Oberlin CollegeRed China’s Green Revolution totally remakes our understanding of Chinese economic development on the eve of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms. This carefully documented study shows that rather than being a total failure on the verge of collapse, the commune system introduced under Mao actually resulted in considerable increases in agricultural productivity, which provided a positive foundation for Deng’s economic reforms. Joshua Eisenman opens the way for an important reconsideration of how political motivations, rather than economic concerns, were a main driver behind Deng’s reforms. -- Edward A. McCord, George Washington UniversityJoshua Eisenman questions the conventional wisdom that China’s communes, which were failing institutions in the Great Leap Forward of 1958, continued to be so. Eisenman offers hard data to refute the conventional, quasi-official story that before 1978 China’s rural economy was in dire straits, requiring neoliberal efficiencies to fix it. -- Lynn T. White, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and IllustrationForeword, by Lynn T. White IIIPrologue: China’s Missing Institution1. Introduction: Assessing Commune Productivity Part I: Creating China’s Green Revolution2. Institutional Origins & Evolution 3. China’s Green Revolution Part II: Sources of Commune Productivity 4. Economics: Super-Optimal Investment 5. Politics: Maoism 6. Organization: Size and Structure 7. Burying the Commune 8. Conclusion Appendix A. Essential Official Agricultural Policy Statements on the Commune, 1958–1983Appendix B. National and Provincial Agricultural Production Data, 1949–1979Appendix C. Essential Official Agricultural Policy Statements on the Commune, 1958–1983NotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating separate neighborhoods for black and white southerners.Trade ReviewHerbin-Triant tackles a surprisingly neglected aspect of the Jim Crow era—efforts to impose residential segregation in urban and rural areas. Insightfully integrating considerations of race and class and probing how they intersected with the defense of property rights, she sheds new light on attempts to legally separate blacks and whites. An important contribution to southern and American history. -- Eric Foner, Columbia UniversityPaying careful attention to social and legal processes in urban and rural contexts, Threatening Property refutes the often-unexamined notion that the rise of de jure segregation unified whites and subordinated blacks. In this pathbreaking study, Herbin-Triant reveals a crucial avenue of research for scholars and points the way forward. -- Kenneth Mack, author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights LawyerSkillfully combining local and transnational approaches, Threatening Property reveals the class struggle underlying campaigns for residential segregation in the South, shattering the myth of a unity of interests among white southerners. Following in the tradition of C. Vann Woodward, Elizabeth Herbin-Triant offers a nuanced and sophisticated analysis of Jim Crow’s contested career. -- Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil WarWhen Clarence Poe of the Progressive Farmer launched his 1913 campaign to segregate the rural south, it divided opinion in surprising ways. In her nuanced, well-supported, and crisply written social history, Elizabeth Herbin-Triant explores the intersection of race, class, and ideological fault lines in this story of strange bedfellows. -- Mark Schultz, author of The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim CrowHerbin-Triant provides significant insight into the broader national landscape during the Jim Crow era . . . Recommended. * Choice *This book is a must read for anyone interested in civil rights, urban development, or social policy in the South. It introduces ideas and areas that researchers can mine in future projects, and presents a model for studying public and private spaces in other states. * North Carolina Historical Review *This highly readable book should be of interest to many disciplines (urban sociology, geography, history, city planning) and to many lay readers as well. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Middling Whites in Postbellum North Carolina2. Fusion, Democrats, and the Scarecrow of Race3. Inspirations for Residential Segregation4. Separating Residences in the Camel City5. Jim Crow for the CountrysideConclusion: Planning for Residential Segregation After BuchananNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisToday, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.Trade ReviewAmerica's farmers and home buyers long suffered from limited access to mortgage credit. In this engaging book, Glock aptly shows how federal interventions to boost mortgage lending fostered powerful special interests, which subsequently created new imbalances in the economy. That's why we continue to have housing bubbles and crashes. -- Richard Sylla, coauthor of Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and DebtFrom one of the finest in a growing generation of historians writing at the intersection of finance and politics, we learn about the passions and the interests of financiers, politicians, intellectuals, reformers, and farmers who created the system of government-backed finance that has dominated the modern era. The Dead Pledge provides a new history that will guide our ongoing debates about the appropriate role of government in finance and finance in society. -- Peter Conti-Brown, author of The Power and Independence of the Federal ReserveJudge Glock's fascinating book, The Dead Pledge, provides a new perspective on the evolution of American capitalism and the development of modern financial institutions by exploring the intriguing theme of "economic balance" and its allure to a wide range of economic actors, academics, and policy makers from the Progressive Era through the New Deal. -- Walter Friedman, author of American Business History: A Very Short Introduction and Fortune Tellers: America's First Economic ForecastersIn this sweeping narrative, Glock brings together the histories of American finance, economic thought, and policy making. Glock reframes our conventional understanding of when and how the “financialization” of American capitalism took place, defining it as an early twentieth-century phenomenon. The modern mortgage market, he explains with lucid prose, developed in tandem with—and inseparably from—the modern American state. An engaging read, sure to provoke debate. -- Laura Phillips Sawyer, author of American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making the Land Liquid: The Roots of Land Banking2. The Special Privileges of the Federal Banks3. The Federal Land Banks and Financial Distress, 1916–19264. Falling Prices and Mortgage Crisis, 1926–19335. Herbert Hoover and the Urban-Mortgage Crisis in the Great Depression6. A New Deal for Farm Mortgages7. Housing, Heavy Industry, and the Forgotten New Deal Banking Act8. An Economy Balanced by MortgagesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisToday, the federal government underwrites a financial system built around mortgage lending. In The Dead Pledge, Judge Glock reveals the surprising origins of this entanglement in forgotten economic ideas and policies that held sway from the early twentieth century through the Great Depression.Trade ReviewAmerica's farmers and home buyers long suffered from limited access to mortgage credit. In this engaging book, Glock aptly shows how federal interventions to boost mortgage lending fostered powerful special interests, which subsequently created new imbalances in the economy. That's why we continue to have housing bubbles and crashes. -- Richard Sylla, coauthor of Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and DebtFrom one of the finest in a growing generation of historians writing at the intersection of finance and politics, we learn about the passions and the interests of financiers, politicians, intellectuals, reformers, and farmers who created the system of government-backed finance that has dominated the modern era. The Dead Pledge provides a new history that will guide our ongoing debates about the appropriate role of government in finance and finance in society. -- Peter Conti-Brown, author of The Power and Independence of the Federal ReserveJudge Glock's fascinating book, The Dead Pledge, provides a new perspective on the evolution of American capitalism and the development of modern financial institutions by exploring the intriguing theme of "economic balance" and its allure to a wide range of economic actors, academics, and policy makers from the Progressive Era through the New Deal. -- Walter Friedman, author of American Business History: A Very Short Introduction and Fortune Tellers: America's First Economic ForecastersIn this sweeping narrative, Glock brings together the histories of American finance, economic thought, and policy making. Glock reframes our conventional understanding of when and how the “financialization” of American capitalism took place, defining it as an early twentieth-century phenomenon. The modern mortgage market, he explains with lucid prose, developed in tandem with—and inseparably from—the modern American state. An engaging read, sure to provoke debate. -- Laura Phillips Sawyer, author of American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making the Land Liquid: The Roots of Land Banking2. The Special Privileges of the Federal Banks3. The Federal Land Banks and Financial Distress, 1916–19264. Falling Prices and Mortgage Crisis, 1926–19335. Herbert Hoover and the Urban-Mortgage Crisis in the Great Depression6. A New Deal for Farm Mortgages7. Housing, Heavy Industry, and the Forgotten New Deal Banking Act8. An Economy Balanced by MortgagesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRisk, Choice, and Uncertainty offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. George G. Szpiro examines economics from theories of optimal decision making to behavioral science.Trade ReviewIn Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty, George Szpiro presents a remarkably readable, nonmathematical account of the theory of choice between risky alternatives. -- Harry Markowitz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic SciencesRisk, Choice, and Uncertainty is a masterpiece of intellectual biography. In his best book to date, Szpiro’s wit and stylish writing make the history of thinking about thinking both intriguing and accessible. -- Sylvia Nasar, author of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusEconomic theory treats humans as "utility maximizers". But what is "utility"? 300 years ago, Daniel Bernoulli declared it as relative gain in wealth. Later it became an abstract scale for consistent preferences, but this postulated "rationality" has its own paradoxes and controversies as concerns actual behavior. George Szpiro's sweeping historical tour de force of this topic entertains, informs and delights. -- Bernhard von Stengel, Professor of Mathematics, game theorist, London School of Economics and Political ScienceRisk, Choice, and Uncertainty is a well-organized and pleasantly written account of the history of economics seen through the lens of individual decision making, ranging from expected utility to prospect theory. It will be of interest to a lay audience and curious students alike. -- Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity UniversityPresents a new approach to the history of economic thought, providing a study of how people make decisions. * Journal of Economic Literature *Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Happiness and the Utility of Wealth1. It All Began with A Paradox2. More Is Better . . .3. . . . at a Decreasing RatePart II. Mathematics Is the Queen of the Sciences . . . 4. The Marginalist Triumvirate5. Forgotten Precursors6. Betting on One’s Belief7. Games Economists Play8. Wobbly Curves9. Comparing the IncomparablePart III. . . . But Man Is the Measure of All Things10. More Paradoxes11. Good Enough12. Sunk Costs, the Gambler’s Fallacy, and Other Errors13. Erroneous, Irrational, or Plain Dumb?NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Meals Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with vivid descriptions of conviviality, he offers a gastronomic rebuttal to the narrow worldview of mainstream economics.Trade ReviewMichael Symons succeeds brilliantly in a radical project: convincing readers to rethink a singular ‘economics’ as multiple ‘economies’: bodily, household, market, political, and natural. His book draws on intellectual history, economic and social theories, and gastronomy, and it is richly illustrated with stories about meals. -- Janet Flammang, author of The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil SocietyAs an academic economist and former chef, this is a book I wish I had written. Symons’s work provides a unique contribution through its fusion of philosophy, economics, and food, arguing for the need to reject the acquisitive self-interest ethos of economics and instead return to a social-centric Epicurean philosophy. I for one would enjoy a seat at Symons’s table. -- Ted P. Schmidt, author of The Political Economy of Food and FinanceMeals Matter is a passionate call to create a more convivial world by centering food and its consumption. It combines a powerful challenge to action with a well-documented contribution toward our understanding of the cultural and social significance of food and foodways. -- Bertram M. Gordon, author of War Tourism: Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of HeritageA clearly written and exciting reappraisal of the development of Western economic thinking and when and where it goes awry. Meals Matter offers an original argument about the relationship of food, money, and economics that has the potential to upend many orthodoxies. -- David Sutton, author of Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and MemoryMeals Matter is compelling, original and sophisticated. The book would appeal to a scientific and lay audience seeking a deeper understanding of how society got to a point of extreme commodification of food, alienation from its sociocultural value, and the neglect of meals. * Nature Food *Meals Matter is a passionate and inspiring proposal for change. Symons’s suggestion that the 'festal core' of democracy needs to be resurrected is certainly correct. * The Australian *Table of ContentsPrologue: Meals Before Money1. It’s Not “the Economy, Stupid,” but More Than Five of ThemPart I: Insatiable Greed vs. Satiable Appetite2. In Greed They Trust3. Brillat-Savarin’s Quest for Table-PleasurePart II: Liberal Economics4. Epicurus and the Pleasure of the Stomach5. Cavendish, Hobbes, Locke, and Liberal Political Economy6. The City Sacks Versailles7. Making the MarketPart III: The Capture8. The Dismal Science9. Ludwig von Mises, Neoliberal Godfather10. Rationalization and Corporate Purpose11. The Creation of Homo EconomicusPart IV: Restoring Economics12. Free the Market! (It’s Been Captured by Capitalism)13. Value Families! (Economics Begins at Home)14. Get Political! (Bring Back Banquets)Epilogue: “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”AcknowledgmentsGlossary: List of IngredientsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.Trade ReviewYü’s book is a tour de force of interpretive and analytical scholarship using Western theory to illuminate the Chinese past. -- Gilbert Z. Chen * China Review International *[I] recommend the book for an upper-division undergraduate course in disciplines such as sociology and the history of religion, Chinese history, Asian studies, and comparative religion . . . There are clearly directions of research that scholars may pursue along the path paved by Yü. -- Bin Song * H-Buddhism *An undertaking only a scholar of the tallest order could have accomplished because the work is not one of “deliberate research,” but one that is built on the knowledge of a lifetime of reading, browsing, and thinking. The weight of this book and the sway of its argument lie heavily on the formidable scholarship of Ying-shih Yü. -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern ChinaThis English translation makes available a seminal text about the norms that sustained the rise of indigenous capitalism in late imperial China. Deeply grounded, compellingly argued, deftly framed in Weberian terms, and expertly edited, this work is a must-read for all who seek orientation in a big-picture understanding of Chinese capitalism over the past five centuries. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, author of Shanghai Splendor: Economic Ethics in the Making of Modern ChinaA welcome translation of Yü’s masterly analysis of early modern economic/commercial principles and practice in light of the reorientation of Chinese thought inward. This is intellectual history deeply grounded in real life through primary sources that at once engages Weberian concepts while elucidating the very different context of early modern Chinese society. -- Joanna Waley-Cohen, author of The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing DynastyYü’s book is the most original Chinese challenge to Max Weber’s theory of the roots of modern capitalism in the Protestant ethic. This English translation will stimulate discussion that is often hampered by either a lack of understanding of what Weber actually said or insufficient knowledge of Chinese inner-worldly asceticism. -- Hans van Ess, president, Max Weber FoundationEven though this book was written over thirty years ago, the questions it raises and the sources and arguments it provides are still quite relevant today, in fact even more so. Yü’s book was a classic when it appeared, and in translation, it will become a very timely intervention. -- Peter Perdue, author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central EurasiaThe English translation of Yü Ying-shih’s book, which is a welcome contribution to Western Chinese studies, should be a stimulation for intensifying investigation into the relationship between Chinese religiosity with its inner-worldly asceticism and mercantile spirit (or generally speaking economy) in China not only for Sinologists but also for researchers in religious studies, economic history and social sciences. -- Zbigniew Wesołowski * Monumenta Serica *This volume will prove invaluable to all those interested in Chinese religion as well as the theory of religion. Indeed, with the death of Yü just last year on the 1st of August, this volume is a fitting homage to his legacy. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsEditorial NoteEditor’s IntroductionAuthor’s IntroductionPart I: The Inner-Worldly Reorientation of Chinese Religions1. New Chan (Japanese pronunciation, Zen) Buddhism2. New Religious DaoismPart II: New Developments in the Confucian Ethic3. The Rise of New Confucianism and the Influence of Chan Buddhism4. Establishing the “World of Heaven’s Principles”: The “Other World” of New Confucianism5. “Seriousness Pervading Activity and Tranquility”: The Spiritual Temper of Inner-Worldly Engagement6. “Regarding the World as One’s Responsibility”: The Inner-Worldly Asceticism of New Confucianism7. Similarities and Differences Between Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan: The Social Significance of the Division in New ConfucianismPart III: The Spiritual Configuration of Chinese Merchants8. Ming and Qing Confucians’ View of “Securing a Livelihood”9. A New Theory of the Four Categories of People: Changes in the Relationship Between Scholars and Merchants10. Merchants and Confucian Learning11. The Mercantile Ethic12. “The Way of Business”ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.Trade ReviewYü’s book is a tour de force of interpretive and analytical scholarship using Western theory to illuminate the Chinese past. -- Gilbert Z. Chen * China Review International *[I] recommend the book for an upper-division undergraduate course in disciplines such as sociology and the history of religion, Chinese history, Asian studies, and comparative religion . . . There are clearly directions of research that scholars may pursue along the path paved by Yü. -- Bin Song * H-Buddhism *An undertaking only a scholar of the tallest order could have accomplished because the work is not one of “deliberate research,” but one that is built on the knowledge of a lifetime of reading, browsing, and thinking. The weight of this book and the sway of its argument lie heavily on the formidable scholarship of Ying-shih Yü. -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern ChinaThis English translation makes available a seminal text about the norms that sustained the rise of indigenous capitalism in late imperial China. Deeply grounded, compellingly argued, deftly framed in Weberian terms, and expertly edited, this work is a must-read for all who seek orientation in a big-picture understanding of Chinese capitalism over the past five centuries. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, author of Shanghai Splendor: Economic Ethics in the Making of Modern ChinaA welcome translation of Yü’s masterly analysis of early modern economic/commercial principles and practice in light of the reorientation of Chinese thought inward. This is intellectual history deeply grounded in real life through primary sources that at once engages Weberian concepts while elucidating the very different context of early modern Chinese society. -- Joanna Waley-Cohen, author of The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military Under the Qing DynastyYü’s book is the most original Chinese challenge to Max Weber’s theory of the roots of modern capitalism in the Protestant ethic. This English translation will stimulate discussion that is often hampered by either a lack of understanding of what Weber actually said or insufficient knowledge of Chinese inner-worldly asceticism. -- Hans van Ess, president, Max Weber FoundationEven though this book was written over thirty years ago, the questions it raises and the sources and arguments it provides are still quite relevant today, in fact even more so. Yü’s book was a classic when it appeared, and in translation, it will become a very timely intervention. -- Peter Perdue, author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central EurasiaThe English translation of Yü Ying-shih’s book, which is a welcome contribution to Western Chinese studies, should be a stimulation for intensifying investigation into the relationship between Chinese religiosity with its inner-worldly asceticism and mercantile spirit (or generally speaking economy) in China not only for Sinologists but also for researchers in religious studies, economic history and social sciences. -- Zbigniew Wesołowski * Monumenta Serica *This volume will prove invaluable to all those interested in Chinese religion as well as the theory of religion. Indeed, with the death of Yü just last year on the 1st of August, this volume is a fitting homage to his legacy. * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsEditorial NoteEditor’s IntroductionAuthor’s IntroductionPart I: The Inner-Worldly Reorientation of Chinese Religions1. New Chan (Japanese pronunciation, Zen) Buddhism2. New Religious DaoismPart II: New Developments in the Confucian Ethic3. The Rise of New Confucianism and the Influence of Chan Buddhism4. Establishing the “World of Heaven’s Principles”: The “Other World” of New Confucianism5. “Seriousness Pervading Activity and Tranquility”: The Spiritual Temper of Inner-Worldly Engagement6. “Regarding the World as One’s Responsibility”: The Inner-Worldly Asceticism of New Confucianism7. Similarities and Differences Between Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan: The Social Significance of the Division in New ConfucianismPart III: The Spiritual Configuration of Chinese Merchants8. Ming and Qing Confucians’ View of “Securing a Livelihood”9. A New Theory of the Four Categories of People: Changes in the Relationship Between Scholars and Merchants10. Merchants and Confucian Learning11. The Mercantile Ethic12. “The Way of Business”ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTill Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.Trade ReviewIn this astute and captivating analysis of disruptive economic change, Hilmar moves persuasively beyond the ‘morality’ and ‘economy’ binary to draw a timely lesson: it’s in the very fabric of social relations, even our memory of them, that we pursue moral worth and economic deservingness. Read this gem of a book that, yes, deserves wide attention. -- Nina Bandelj, coeditor of Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really WorksWhat if memory were not only about war, exile, trauma, and genocide? Hilmar’s inspiring work sets a new and crucial agenda for memory studies by highlighting the importance of economic memories for understanding contemporary societies. Deserved makes a clarion call for putting socioeconomic perspectives back into the study of remembrance. -- Sarah Gensburger, coauthor of Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn from the Past?Deserved is a fascinating journey into the turmoil of post-1989 transformation in Central Europe. On the basis of in-depth interviews, Hilmar reveals the moral grammar that surrounds the remembrance of economic ruptures and how the language of deservingness and inclusion makes up the fabric of society. -- Steffen Mau, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of BerlinDeserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of social memory, and Hilmar’s concept of ‘moral deservingness’ will become a useful tool for studying perception of other instances of economic changes. -- Joanna Wawrzyniak, coeditor of Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989The book is original, illuminating, and consistently insightful, and it shows a deep acquaintance with the literature on memory and social identity. As such Deserved is a highly valuable contribution to cultural sociology. * Understanding Society *A novel and conceptually rich take on the history and memory of the post-socialist transformations. * CEU Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Historical Trajectories2. Remembering Economic Change After 19893. Deserving and Undeserving Others4. The Social Experience of the Transformation PeriodEpilogue: How Right-Wing Populists Capture DeservingnessMethodological AppendixAcknowledgmentsCopyright AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTill Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.Trade ReviewIn this astute and captivating analysis of disruptive economic change, Hilmar moves persuasively beyond the ‘morality’ and ‘economy’ binary to draw a timely lesson: it’s in the very fabric of social relations, even our memory of them, that we pursue moral worth and economic deservingness. Read this gem of a book that, yes, deserves wide attention. -- Nina Bandelj, coeditor of Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really WorksWhat if memory were not only about war, exile, trauma, and genocide? Hilmar’s inspiring work sets a new and crucial agenda for memory studies by highlighting the importance of economic memories for understanding contemporary societies. Deserved makes a clarion call for putting socioeconomic perspectives back into the study of remembrance. -- Sarah Gensburger, coauthor of Beyond Memory: Can We Really Learn from the Past?Deserved is a fascinating journey into the turmoil of post-1989 transformation in Central Europe. On the basis of in-depth interviews, Hilmar reveals the moral grammar that surrounds the remembrance of economic ruptures and how the language of deservingness and inclusion makes up the fabric of society. -- Steffen Mau, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of BerlinDeserved is the first full-fledged theory of perception of economic justice in the field of memory studies. This book will resonate with the growing interest in economic aspects of social memory, and Hilmar’s concept of ‘moral deservingness’ will become a useful tool for studying perception of other instances of economic changes. -- Joanna Wawrzyniak, coeditor of Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989The book is original, illuminating, and consistently insightful, and it shows a deep acquaintance with the literature on memory and social identity. As such Deserved is a highly valuable contribution to cultural sociology. * Understanding Society *A novel and conceptually rich take on the history and memory of the post-socialist transformations. * CEU Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Historical Trajectories2. Remembering Economic Change After 19893. Deserving and Undeserving Others4. The Social Experience of the Transformation PeriodEpilogue: How Right-Wing Populists Capture DeservingnessMethodological AppendixAcknowledgmentsCopyright AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Offers fresh and deep insight into the critical nuances that civic leaders need to develop and implement strategies to use information and communication technology to make next-generation cities that help their people thrive."--Jon Gant, Director of the Center for Digital Inclusion

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Trade Review"A comprehensive and enlightening survey of the evolution of Lincoln's economic thought." --Reviews in American History"Boritt illuminates Lincoln's understanding of 'equality' as well as the meaning of the concept in Lincoln's political economy." -- New York Review of BooksThis is a rare book that deserves superlatives . . . brilliant and original" -- Pennsylvania Magazine of History"A major contribution." -- Journal of Economic History

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Book SynopsisCities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the Great Recession. This book looks at the capacity of local governments to mobilize resources efficiently and effectively, and the overall effects of the long-term economic downturn on quality of life.Trade Review"Particularly important at a time when cities and metros are compelled to innovate and problem-solve on their own, given the absence of federal and often state leadership."--Bruce Katz, coauthor of The Metropolitan Revolution"This book reveals the potential of metropolitan regions to cure, but also to transcend, endemic impasses beyond their respective borders. This well-written and insightful book is a must-read for scholars as well as policy makers."--Political Studies Review "In this book, Michael A. Pagano brings together a stellar set of multidisciplinary and multigenerational scholars to reconsider the urban agenda in the post–Great Recession era. They offer a coherent focus on local capacities for adaptation and change in dealing with core issues such as infrastructure, pensions, economic vitality, social safety nets, and collaborative initiatives."--Susan E. Clarke, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook on Urban Politics

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Offers fresh and deep insight into the critical nuances that civic leaders need to develop and implement strategies to use information and communication technology to make next-generation cities that help their people thrive."--Jon Gant, Director of the Center for Digital Inclusion

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Book SynopsisExplores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectivesTrade ReviewThis edited collection adds a welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate. One strength of the collection is the way in which it draws together research from a very diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds, meaning that even a reader who considers themselves to be an expert in this topic within a particular disciplinary field is likely to find something that provokes new questions and insights. * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter Y. Paik1. Debt Richard D. Wolff2. "I Consider It Un-American Not to Have a Mortgage": Immigrant Homeownership in Chicago Elaine Lewinnek3. Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance Mary Poovey4. On Debt Michael Allen Gillespie5. The Growth Imperative: Prosperity or Poverty Joel Magnuson6. Democracy's Debt: Capitalism and Cultural Revolution Stephen L. Gardner7. Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart Morris Berman8. Measures of Time: Exploring Debt, Imagination, and Real Nature Julianne Lutz Warren9. The Time of Living Dead Species: Extinction Debt and Futurity in Madagascar Genese Marie Sodikoff10. Unintended Consequences and the Epistemology of Fraud in Dickens and Hayek Eleanor Courtemanche11. The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern Michael Tratner12. China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt Donald D. Hester13. Debt's Moral Kennan Ferguson14. Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale Gerry Canavan

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Book SynopsisExplores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectivesTrade ReviewThis edited collection adds a welcome range of new perspectives on what has become a central issue for contemporary debate. One strength of the collection is the way in which it draws together research from a very diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds, meaning that even a reader who considers themselves to be an expert in this topic within a particular disciplinary field is likely to find something that provokes new questions and insights. * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter Y. Paik1. Debt Richard D. Wolff2. "I Consider It Un-American Not to Have a Mortgage": Immigrant Homeownership in Chicago Elaine Lewinnek3. Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance Mary Poovey4. On Debt Michael Allen Gillespie5. The Growth Imperative: Prosperity or Poverty Joel Magnuson6. Democracy's Debt: Capitalism and Cultural Revolution Stephen L. Gardner7. Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart Morris Berman8. Measures of Time: Exploring Debt, Imagination, and Real Nature Julianne Lutz Warren9. The Time of Living Dead Species: Extinction Debt and Futurity in Madagascar Genese Marie Sodikoff10. Unintended Consequences and the Epistemology of Fraud in Dickens and Hayek Eleanor Courtemanche11. The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern Michael Tratner12. China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt Donald D. Hester13. Debt's Moral Kennan Ferguson14. Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale Gerry Canavan

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Book SynopsisOffers ways of understanding the relationship between the financial system in Great Britain and other aspects of Victorian society and culture.Trade ReviewThis is a generous collection in every sense of the term, commendable for the breadth of its voices and for the wealth of information it offers both newcomers to and veterans of the study of Victorian finance. . . . Assembling contributions from top scholars in history and literature, Henry and Schmitt offer us a diverse and highly readable volume. Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2011 * Journal of British Studies *Serious, ample, and provocative, the essays are an important addition to the literature of nineteenth-century finance and offer constructive consideration of a fundamental feature of the practice and myths of capitalism as we continue to live with and in them. Vol. 52, No. 1 * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Finance, Capital, Culture Nancy Henry and Cannon SchmittPart 1. A Prehistory of Victorian Investment1. "Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon": Finance Capital, the Atlantic, and Slavery Ian BaucomPart 2. Cultures of Investment2. Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment Mary Poovey3. The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain Timothy Alborn4. Limited Liability, Market Democracy, and the Social Organization of Production in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain Donna Loftus5. Fair Enterprise or Extravagant Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian England David C. Itzkowitz6. Ladies of the Ticker: Women, Investment, and Fraud in England and America, 1850–1930 George RobbPart 3. Fictions of Investment7. Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime Minister Audrey Jaffe8. "Rushing into Eternity": Suicide and Finance in Victorian Fiction Nancy Henry9. Rumor, Shares, and Novelistic Form: Joseph Conrad's Nostromo Cannon SchmittAfterword Martin DauntonBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe history of a city and the evolution of a nationTrade Review[T]his is a story well told, a lucid and readable book about an interesting and complex city. * The Hindu *Lucidly written, beautifully illustrated and meticulously supported with facts and figures, this is an important addition to the academic literature on Gujarat. * Contemporary South Asia *[A]n important contribution to the urban histories of Asia and a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Ahmedabad and Gujarat [T]his is a compelling account of Ahmedabad, ably written by a historian whose long engagement with and affection for the city shine through without clouding his intellectual insights. Putting a human face on the city's leading figures who built the city and its institutions, caused or led movements, maintained calm or provoked violence, Spodek takes us on an engrossing rollercoaster ride through Ahmedabad's turbulent and complicated history in the twentieth century.... * H-Asia *Ahmedabad . . . provides an important contribution to the field as both an examination of a place conspicuously underrepresented in the urban history of the region and as an excellent piece of urban history that not only greatly informs our understanding of South Asian development, but also has application to a number of cities globally. * H-Urban *Because it is written in such a lucid and lively manner and because it treats so many of the critical themes of twentieth-century Indian history, Ahmedabad is also one of the books I would most strongly recommend to anyone who wants to understand South Asia's recent past. * Business History Review *Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India is an important and timely history of a city that has re-emerged at the forefront of debates around India's model of economic growth. * Urban History *[This book] will be of interest to scholars of urban history, local and national politics, and popular movements in South Asia.Feb. 2014 * JRNL ASIAN STUDIES *A city of extraordinary economic growth and innovation, horrendous communal violence and appalling poverty; Howard Spodek justifiably calls Ahmedabad a 'shock city' in his . . . book Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth Century India.Winter 2012 * IIAS Newsletter (Intnl Inst Asian Studies) *The strength of this first-rate, well-illustrated study is its thorough grounding in source material, an intimate knowledge of people and places, and its connections between Ahmedabad and such personalities as Gandhi, Vallabbhai Patel, and Anasuyaben Sarabhia . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This excellent study is the culmination of a half-century of research on a city in which Spodek first lived in 1964 and to which he continues to return. Spodek's lovingly told yet critical assessment of Ahmedabad reflects his deep affection for the place and many of its prominent twentieth-century residents. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The Gandhian Era, 1915–1950 1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad 2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership 3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress Political Machine 4. Anasuyaben Sarabhai Engages Ahmedabad's Working ClassesPart 2. The Westernizing City, 1950–1980 5. Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Build an Industrialized, Westernized, Prosperous, Cultured, World-Class Company Town 6. Indulal Yagnik Challenges the Gandhian ConsensusPart 3. Creativity and Chaos: Economic Restructuring—Political Violence—Culture Conflict, 1969– 7. Communal Violence, 1969 8. Chimanbhai Patel Provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974 9. The Mills Close, the TLA Falters, and the Municipal Corporation Goes Broke 10. Madhavsinh Solanki Invokes the Politics of Caste and Class 11. Ahmedabad 2000: The Capitalist City Out of Control 12. Godhra, the Gujarat Pogrom, and the ConsequencesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative, well-documented exposé of abuses of power at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) during the tenure of renowned chairman, Alan Greenspan.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Hitting a Tank with a Stick Chapter 2. The Burns Fed: Price Controls, Inflation, and the Watergate Cover-up with a Distinguished Professor at the Helm Chapter 3. The Master of Garblements Chapter 4. Spinning Mountains into Molehills Chapter 5. Valuable Secrets and the Return of Greenspan's "Prophetic Touch" Chapter 6. The Seventeen-Year Lie Chapter 7. Corrupted Airplanes and Computer Mice Chapter 8. Standing in the Door against Civil Rights Chapter 9. When Five Hundred Economists Are Not Enough Chapter 10. The Myth of Political Virginity Chapter 11. Pricking the Stock Market Bubble and Other Greenspan Policies Chapter 12. Bring the Fed into the Democracy Appendix: Excerpts from Waste and Abuse in the Federal Reserve's Payment System Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the most important themes of eighteenth-century Mexican social and economic history.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Monopoly, Tobacco, and Colonial Society 2. Monopoly Bureaucrats and Monopoly Finances: An Overview, 1765–1810 Part II 3. Tobacco and Paper: The Politics and Problems of Supply 4. Merchants, Rancheros, and Peasants: The Tobacco Planters of Orizaba and Córdoba Part III 5. Organization, Production, and Policies: The State Tobacco Manufactories, 1765–1810 6. To Serve in the King’s House: Work, Wages, and Manufactory Discipline in the Royal Tobacco Manufactories 7. Accommodation, Consensus, and Resistance: The Tobacco Manufactory Workers and the Colonial State, 1770–1810 8. Postscript Appendixes Notes Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how can we explain its prevalence?Table of Contents Foreword Preface 1. Approaching Labor Underutilization and Labor Marginality 2. Who Are the Marginal Workers? 3. How Do You Measure Underutilization? 4. Data, Methods, and Time Effects 5. The Idiosyncrasy Hypothesis: Employment of the Disabled 6. The Discrimination Hypothesis: Age 7. The Discrimination Hypothesis: Race and Sex 8. The Discrimination Hypothesis: Interactions 9. The Achievement Hypothesis: Effects of Training 10. The Structural Hypothesis: Marginal Jobs 11. Conclusions and Recommendations Appendices A. Data Adequacy and Methods B. Measuring Involuntary Part-time Employment C. Measuring Underutilization by Level of Income D. Measuring Mismatch Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the political and economic role of industrial entrepreneurs in postwar Mexico.Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction Part 1. Industrial Progress under Late and Dependent Development 2. The Pattern of Industrial Growth in Mexico 3. Dependent Industrialization in a Mixed Economy Part 2. The Political Role of Industrial Entrepreneurs in Mexico 4. State-Industry Relations: Disaggregating the Authoritarian State 5. The Political Ideology and Perceptions of Industrial Elites: Mexico and Venezuela Compared Part 3. Industrialists and Policymaking 6. A Typology of the Policy Process and a Case Study of the GATT Decision 7. Industrial Development Strategies and Petroleum Policy 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Sources of and Methods for Collecting Industrialization Data Appendix B: Selected “Mexicanized” Firms, 1967–1983 Appendix C: Selected Newly Established “Mexicanized” Firms, 1973–1979 Appendix D: Data Sources for Regression Analysis (Chapter 3) Appendix E: Questionnaire Mailed to Mexican and Venezuelan Industrialists, Summer 1980 Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the afterlives of things. Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany’s consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany’s modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige.Trade ReviewScholz explores the afterlife of Nazism as a repurposing and remythologizing process. Scholars have yet to learn how to account for the ‘affective legacies’ of the Third Reich, or even to realize that they existed. Scholz’s analysis of the postwar fabric of Nazi myth showcases a subject and an approach that could be of great consequence for contemporary German and, more generally, post-totalitarian scholarship." - Michael Geyer, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisCompares and contrasts the historical course of Britain and America, exploring the significance of their similarities and differences over a period of two centuries. This book includes wide-ranging analyses of such issues as industrialization and urbanization, democracy and politics.

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Book SynopsisSince humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. This book follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. It also discusses how we can and should embrace a global world.Trade Review"By unbundling the attributes of modern globalization and linking them to an almost endless chain of historical precedents, Mr. Chanda demystifies a phenomenon invested by its enemies with nearly satanic properties."—William Grimes, New York Times"A lively book that is packed with incident, anecdote and derring-do. . . . Mr. Chanda makes a solid and attractive case for globalisation and its potential as a force for good. But he also has a great deal of sympathy for globalisation's losers."—Economist"While most of us consider globalization to be a purely contemporary phenomenon—conjuring up images of multinational coffee chains and multilingual call centers—to Chanda it is as old as humanity itself, and as complex and unpredictable. . . . His encyclopedic survey of the forces and events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by lively anecdotes. . . ."—Ishaan Thardoor, Time"[An] engaging analysis. . . . This is a book filled with fascinating information. And Chanda makes the most of his training as both a journalist and a scholar, bringing to his tale a reporter's eye and sense of pacing as well as an impressive breadth of knowledge."—Jeffrey N. Wasserstein, Newsweek"With the perspective of a historian and the savvy of a political scientist, Chanda skillfully argues that globalization was, is and will always be inevitable. . . . Like a good mystery, Chanda's chronology is rich with surprises and moments of revelation."—Publishers Weekly"What stands out in Bound Together is its astonishing historical reach - which provides the basis for Chanda's examination of globalization."—Sam Mendelson, Financial World"To find a book that is prepared to venture into the lion's den, and actually say something new and interesting about a subject that has been done to death and contaminated by polemics is a rariety. To find a book that can say this with calm fluency and gentle argument is a pleasure . . . Bound Together does all this, and it does it in a literary style that is largely free of both economic theory and jargon."—Julius Sen, World Business"Well told, full of interesting details. . . . It should be prescribed reading for all those who think they are still living in a world of nation-states or who even want to migrate there in their minds."—Hans-Heinrich Nolte, Global HistoryReceived Honorable Mention for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the History category"Nayan Chanda has written an invaluable, and in my view unique, history of globalization—how the concept emerged, evolved, was defused, and has now come to define today's international system. I learned a ton from this book, and I've already written two books on the subject. Students will find its analyses and anecdotes easily accessible and experts will find its arguments original and provocative. It is a real contribution to the literature—a must-read for anyone interested in understanding or teaching this subject."—Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat"Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and entertaining anecdotes, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are today."—Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics"A magnificent and masterly achievement. Nayan Chanda has taken a buzzword of our era, globalization, and defined it in the full, rich, complex context of a phenomenon that has shaped humanity over the millennia. He conveys his prodigious knowledge with clarity, wit, and narrative verve, weaving themes from the history of science, politics, commerce, and religion into a coherent, compelling story."—Strobe Talbott, president, The Brookings Institution"Bound Together is a wonderful book that provides us with a rich and holistic perspective on globalization. The book is a must for every student of globalization."—R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd."Bound Together is destined to be a classic book for the 21st Century. Author Nayan Chanda has combined deep and far-ranging scholarship with a journalist’s touch for story telling to craft an enthralling narrative of humankind from our birth in Africa to our addiction to the Internet. Chanda is a true global citizen. His book should be read in every home, school, business and embassy in the world, and become a vital part of our common intellectual heritage."—Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and Director of Global Affairs, Occidental College, Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisWhen a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken?Trade Review“The book is well researched and clearly written, with a passionate concern for the impact of carbon disulphide on workers. . . this book will be very appealing to scholars as well as to general readers interested in the history of the rayon industry, the history of occupational health, or the unbridled use of toxic materials by industry.”—Peter Morris, Ambix"It is a fast paced and shocking tale. . . Rather than chart occupational health through a specific industry Fake Silk focuses on the substance, which permits a much broader and deeper reach into politics, economics, environmentalism and culture both in terms of both historical research and its audience."—Social History of Medicine“Action-packed . . . Reading Fake Silk, I could not help but wonder about the manufacturing process behind my T-shirt or the new dress hanging in my closet. Was someone harmed in the making of the kitchen sponge I just unwrapped?”—Science“Thanks to Paul Blanc’s extensively researched study we learn that. . . As the industry expanded, so did the number of victims suffering from the manufacturing process through exposure to the toxic solvent. They, as workers in the critical step, had suffered hallucinations and muscle and nerve dysfunction, and even died, from the toxic solvent carbon disulphide (disulfide). Their story is told sympathetically in this highly readable volume.” —Anthony S. Travis, Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group Newsletter“In a time when many occupational physicians in developed countries will not see much classical occupational disease, this book is a timely reminder of the risks resulting from poorly controlled workplace exposures. Read it as a warning to understand the background to what happened in the viscose rayon industry and to quicken consciences for future prevention.”—Ron McCaig, Journal of Occupational Medicine“Interesting and engaging” —Catherine Mills, The Review of English Studies "This book provides a much needed dimension often missing in histories of rayon-producing corporations. . . .many readers will appreciate the assembling of facts concerning carbon disulfide's use."— Mary Schoeser, Textile History"Paul Blanc's book compellingly chronicles the all-too-real dangers behind the production of ‘fake’ silk. A terrifying exposé of what happens when the textile business puts profits before health."—Alison Matthews David, author of Fashion Victims:The Dangers of Dress Past and Present“This is an essential read for all interested in the history of occupational disease and of our increasing knowledge, yet failure to implement, the controls needed to reduce the risk of preventable disease and premature death.”—Sir Anthony Newman Taylor, Imperial College, London“Blanc's meticulous research has yielded a calm and overwhelming indictment of the murderous treatment that rayon workers worldwide have endured at the hands of their corporate masters.”—Eric Frumin, Health and Safety Director, US trade union federation Change to Win“A shocking story. Blanc draws back the curtain on the corporate deceit and neglect connected to products that have come to epitomize modern life.”— Frederick Rowe Davis, author of Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology“A fascinating investigation into the colorful century-long history of a pernicious industrial hazard. A cautionary must-read for anyone who cares about eco-friendly living and integrity too.”—Don Katz, founder, Audible.com

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Book SynopsisA history of major financial crisesand how taxpayers have been left with the bill In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping and antifraud measures, and fiduciary responsibilities. Despite subsequent periodic changes in these regulations, the underlying bargain played a major role in preserving the stability of the financial markets as well as the larger economy. By the free-market era of the 1980s and 90s, however, Wall Street argued that rules embodied in New Dealera regulations to protect consumers and ultimately taxpayers were no longer neededand government agreed. This engaging history documents the country's financial crises, focusing on those of the 1920s, the 1980s, and the 2000s, and reveals how the two more recent crises arose from the neglect of this fundamental bargaiTrade Review“Day has written a sweeping account of financial calamities. She shows how often we’ve been wracked by crises, and how quickly we forget why, setting up the next one. Buckle in.”—Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics"Kathleen Day provides a panoramic and insightful analysis of financial booms and crashes that have shaped our nation’s history. She demonstrates that loose credit and weak regulation have played key roles in promoting every speculative boom since the 1920s. Her book is required reading for everyone who wants to understand how to prevent the next financial crisis."—Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George Washington University Law School"An essential narrative of the regulatory cycles that predate financial crises, Broken Bargain offers an important lesson in the dangers of amnesia as Washington once again embarks on deregulation, repeating the mistakes of the past."—Sheila Bair, founding Chair of the Systemic Risk Council and former Chair of the FDIC

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Book SynopsisA vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London's first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously reTrade Review“This book inexorably ties the lives of citizens to the life of the port, and you will never see London in the same light. It is enlightening, well-written, gripping and down-to-earth. This is a must-read for anyone whose ancestors lived in not just London but any busy port during the 18th century, by an author who really knows her stuff.”—Janet Dempsey, Who Do You Think You Are“This is a vivid evocation of the riverside life of eighteenth-century London, with sailors and landmen, rich and poor, bankers, merchants, stevedores, wharfingers and boatmen living and working cheek by jowl in the middle of the biggest and busiest port in the world. Many have glanced at this lost world from a distance, but few can equal Margarette Lincoln’s intimate knowledge of it.”—N. A. M. Rodger, author of The Command of the Ocean“[A] marvellous account . . . enlightening”—Steven Simon, Survival“Those of us who love south-east London will enjoy Margarette Lincoln’s Trading in War: London’s Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson, which uncovers the lost world of the London docks in the period when Britain first became a world empire based on maritime trade.”—Jonathan Sumption, Spectator, “Books of the Year”Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice“A rich and vibrant study of the riverside boroughs of London to the east of Tower Bridge, the world’s greatest maritime city, in an age of revolution and social change. Lincoln catches a transient world of moving people, changing work, and the integrated lives of sea captains and servants, shipwrights, stowaways and thieves.”—Andrew Lambert, author of Nelson and War at Sea in the Age of Sail“Written at a fine, taut pace, this account of the industrial and trading powerhouse of maritime London at the end of the eighteenth century demonstrates that living then was at times far from comfortable, even for those who prospered. This is a new and comprehensive social analysis, with wonderful stories taken from unusual sources. Here, too, is the underside of society, riot and murder, poverty and theft, alongside the economic vibrancy along the banks of the Thames, capitalists and workers taking advantage of the business stoked up by lengthy wars.”—Roger Knight, author of Britain Against Napoleon“A fascinating glimpse of a part of London that is so often overlooked. Margarette Lincoln takes us into the minutiae of the lives of ‘ordinary’ citizens, and shows how they are in fact far from ordinary: shipbuilders, sailors and explorers and many others who made Britain the leading maritime nation of the period. And even more remarkable, we get to know the women of this watery world, often the unsung heroines in turbulent times.”—Margaret Willes, author of The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

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