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The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and RecollectionIn a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, "economic analysis of law,"...
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House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on EarthA gripping tale of 150 years of scientific adventure, research, and discovery at the Yale Peabody Museum This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum...
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Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of EuropeA world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The...
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Christianity and the New Spirit of CapitalismOne of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining...
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The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's FutureAre we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will innovation and markets yield greater prosperity In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals...
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Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and WealthAn important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answers some of the most pressing economic questions of our time Today's great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere--in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor's...
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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the SeventiesIn this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory--the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose...
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability"My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today's environmental reality is linked powerfully with other realities, including growing social inequality and neglect and the erosion of democratic governance and popular control. . . . As citizens...
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Smart Energy Policy: An Economist's RX for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure EnergyWhile everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap, and secure, these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or (in the case of oil) secure. This timely book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of...
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On Classical EconomicsA reexamination of classical economic theory and methods, by a senior economist of international stature Thomas Sowell's many writings on the history of economic thought have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and books, and these writings have been praised, reprinted, and translated...
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Crunch!: A History of the Great American Potato ChipFrom Cranberry Pie to Point Bock Beer Cake, from Roast Mallard to Friday Fish Fry, from Latvian peppercakes to Wild Rice with Italian Sausage, this cookbook is bursting with the flavor of Wisconsin's varied cultures and communities. These nearly 100 recipes were demonstrated during...
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Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indianaas Down-Home CafesWhat happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions,...
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Cafe Wisconsin: A Guide to Wisconsin's Down-Home CafesCafe Wisconsin returns in a new, updated version that provides a sure-bet guide to Wisconsin's best small town, home-cooking cafes. For this second edition, author Joanne Raetz Stuttgen traveled more than 12,000 miles in six months, revisiting old business districts and main streets in...
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Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey CoastThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been...
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean PortGaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the...
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The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed...
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Peasant Cooperation and Capitalist Expansion in Central PeruThis book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists. The area studied--the Mantaro Valley of central Peru--is one of the most densely populated and...
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Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political EconomyFrom its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally,...
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Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the BorderPrior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and...
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Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a...
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