Authors:Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn L. Shaw, Fredri
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: economic, bureau, research, conference, report, national, approaches, firms, employees, quantitative, qualitative, analysis
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0226042871
ISBN-13: 9780226042879

The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, The Analysis of Firms and Employees presents new findings about these impacts by examining the interaction between the internal workings of businesses and outside influences from the market using data from countries around the globe. The result is enhanced insight into the dynamic interrelationship between firms and workers.A distinguished team of researchers here examines the relatio

Authors:Geoffrey Cantor, Marc Swetlitz,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: darwinism, challenge, tradition, jewish
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226092771
ISBN-13: 9780226092775

Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed the life sciences and made profound claims about human origins and the human condition, topics often viewed as the prerogative of religion. As a result, evolution has provoked a wide variety of religious responses, ranging from angry rejection to enthusiastic acceptance. While Christian responses to evolution have been studied extensively, little scholarly attention has been paid to Jewish reactions. Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism is the first extended meditation on the Jewish engagement with this crucial and controversial theory.

Author: Lawrence B. Glickma
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: activism, america, consumer, history, power, buying
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-07-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0226298655
ISBN-13: 9780226298658

Far from ephemeral consumer trends, buying green and avoiding sweatshop-made clothing represent the most recent points on a centuries-long continuum of American consumer activism. A sweeping and definitive history of this political tradition, Buying Power traces its lineage back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary patriots inaugu

Author: Alex Preda
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: modern, capitalism, markets, boundaries, finance, framing
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0226679314
ISBN-13: 9780226679310

As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods. In Framing Finance, Alex Preda looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is not only commonplace, but critical, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably. As Preda discovers through extensive research, the public was once much more skeptical. For investing to become accepted, a deep-seated prejudice against speculation had to be overcome, and Preda reve

Author: Jonathan Silvertow
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: seeds, history, natural, invisible, orchard
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226757730
ISBN-13: 9780226757735

The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco de mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of life on earth. With An Orchard Invisible, Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied and surprising as the earth’s flora itself. Beginning with the evolution of the first seed plant from fernlike ancestors more than 360 million years ago, Silvertown carries his tale through epochs

Author: DAVID A. WISE
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: research, conference, report, economic, bureau, economics, aging, national, developments
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0226903354
ISBN-13: 9780226903354

The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years. Retirement systems must therefore adapt to meet the demands of the largest aging population in our nation’s history. In Developments in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise and a distinguished group of analysts examine the economic issues that will confront policy makers as they seek to design policies to protect the economic and physical health of these older Americans. The volume looks at such topics as factors influencing work a

Author: Martin Feldstei
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: research, project, report, economic, bureau, social, security, national, privatizing
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0226241017
ISBN-13: 9780226241012

This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. While social security encounters enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying retirement benefits in systems based on individual saving in funded accounts. The book begins with an introductory paper by Martin Feldstein that provides a powerful argument for reform by overviewin