Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Prof. Michael Huberman
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the distinguished...
The Electronic Silk Road
How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today’s electronic Silk Roads ferry information across continents, enabling individuals and corporations...
by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable...
Financial Statecraft
The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governments-most notably the United States-came increasingly to use their power over imports and exports to influence the behavior of other countries. But trade is not the only way in which nations interact economically. Over...
The Innovation Illusion
How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn...
Chairman of the Fed
William McChesney Martin Jr., and the Creation of the Modern American Financial System
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first biography of William McChesney Martin, Jr. (1906-1998), the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange and the chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Truman to Nixon. The extent of Martin’s influence on the course of American economic history was significant:...
The Natural Gas Market
Sixty Years of Regulation and Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States. All have been unsuccessful, resulting in nationwide gas shortages or massive gas surpluses and costing the nation scores of billions of dollars. In addition,...
by Prof. Robert E. Litan, Prof. Carl J. Schramm
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Sex and the Office
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the...
by Professor Lawrence M. Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M. Friedman offers a monumental history of American law in the twentieth century.
The first general history of its kind, American Law in the Twentieth Century describesthe explosion of law over the past...
Against the Profit Motive
The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
by Joseph Turow
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. That is the scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted in the 1990s, with his hypothetical online newspaper The Daily...
by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A quarter century of trickle-down economics has failed. Economic inequality in the United States has dramatically increased. Many, alas, seem resigned to this growing chasm between rich and poor. But what would happen, ask Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, if America were to make good on its promise of...