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July 2007

BOOKS

Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications, Ninth World Congress, vols. 3, edited by Richard Blundell, Whitney K. Newey & Torsten Persson. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 419p. (330.0151 A247 v. 3)

Allen, Franklin & Douglas Gale. Understanding financial crises. Oxford University Press, 2007. 303p. (338.542 A425)

Athreya, Krishna B. & Soumendra N. Lahiri. Measure theory and probability theory. Springer, 2007. 618p. (513.83 A865)

Brown, Clair, John Haltiwanger & Julia Lane. Economic turbulence: is a volatile economy good for America? University of Chicago Press, 2006. 197p. (338.54 B877)

Caballero, Ricardo J. Specificity and the macroeconomics of restructuring. The MIT Press, 2007. 331p. (339 C112)

Economics and psychology: a promising new cross-disciplinary field, edited by Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer. The MIT Press, 2007. 286p. (330.19 E19)

Egan, Timothy. The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 340p. (978 E28)

Environmental policy and corporate behaviour, edited by Nick Johnstone. Edward Elgar, for the OECD, 2007. 278p. (658.4 E61)

Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. The MIT Press, 2007. 503p. (338.06 F491)

Freeman, Richard B. America works: the exceptional U.S. labor market. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 191p. (331.1 F855)

Goodhart, Charles & Boris Hofmann. House prices and the macroeconomy: implications for banking and price stability. Oxford University Press, 2007. 234p. (339.31 G652)

Hardin, James W. & Joseph M. Hilbe. Generalized linear models and extensions, 2nd ed. Stata Press, 2007. 387p. (519.5 H263 2nd)

Jaramillo, Carlos F. & Daniel Lederman. Challenges of CAFTA: maximizing the benefits for Central America. The World Bank, 2006. 289p. (382.9 J37)

Lay, Steven R. Convex sets and their applications, Dover, 2007; reprint of 1982 Wiley ed. 244p. (516.08 L426)

Lequiller, Francois & Derek Blades. Understanding national accounts. OECD, 2006. 425p. (339.3 L613)

McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and creative destruction. Harvard University Press, 2007. 719p. (330.12 M132)

Mexican immigration to the United States, edited by George J. Borjas. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 2007. 338p. (325.73 M611)

NBER international seminar on macroeconomics 2005, edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel and Christopher A. Pissarides. The MIT Press, for the NBER, 2007. 402p. (332.042 N277 2005)

The new comparative economic history: essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, edited by Timothy J. Hutton, Kevin M. O'Rourke & Alan M. Taylor. The MIT Press, 2007. 417p. (330.9 N532)

Park, Yung Chul. Economic liberalization and integration in East Asia: a post-crisis paradigm. Oxford University Press, 2006. 276p. (330.95 P236)

Perspectives on innovation, edited by Franco Malerba & Stefano Brusoni. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 498p. (338.06 P467)

Regenwetter, Michel, et al. Behavioral social choice: probabilistic models, statistical inference, and applications. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 240p. (302.13 R333)

Rudestam, Kjell E. & Rae R. Newton. Surviving your disseration a comprehensive guide to content and process, 3rd ed. Sage Publications, 2007. 315p. (808.02 R915 3rd)

Taylor, Michael. Rationality and the ideology of disconnection. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 218p. (302.13 T244)


September 2007

BOOKS

Abel, Andrew B., Ben S. Bernanke & Dean Croushore. Macroeconomics. Pearson Addison Wesley, 2007. 641p. (339 A139 6th)

Bossaerts, Peter & Bernt A. Odegaard. Lectures on corporate finance, 2nd ed. World Scientific, 2006. 248p. (658.1 B745 2nd)

Campbell, Arthur, et al. Solutions manual to accompany Contract Theory (Bolton/Dewatripoint). The MIT Press, 2007. 140p. (346.02 C187)

Cahuc, Pierre & Andre Zylberberg. Labor economics. The MIT Press, 2004. 844p. (331 C132)

Capello, Roberta. Regional economics. Routledge, 2007. 322p. (330.9 C238)

Caplan, Bryan. The myth of the rational voter: why democracies choose bad policies. Princeton University Press, 2007. 276p. (324.6 C244)

Clark, Gregory. A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world. Princeton University Press, 2007. 420p. (330.9 C593)

Dam, Kenneth W. The law-growth nexus: the rule of law and economic development. Brookings Institution Press, 2006. 323p. (349.73 D154)

Davey, B.A. & H.A. Priestley. Introduction to lattices and order, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 298p. (512.865 D248 2nd)

Electric choices: deregulation and the future of electric power, edited by Andrew N. Kleit. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. 242p. (338.43 E43)

Friedman, Thomas L. The world is flat: a brief history of the 21st century, further updated and expanded. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 660p. (303.48 F911

Great depressions of the twentieth century, edited by Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007. 475p. (338.54 G786)

Immigrants and their international money flows, edited by Susan Pozo. Upjohn Institute, 2007. 156p. (325.73 I33)

Lang, Serge. Complex analysis, 4th ed. Springer, 1999. 485p. (515.9 L271 4th)

Link, Albert N. & Donald S. Siegel. Innovation, entrepreneurship, and technological change. Oxford University Press, 2007. 219p. (338.064 L756)

MacAvoy, Paul. The unsustainable costs of partial deregulation. Yale University Press, 2007. 181p. (338.4 M117)

Mishan, E.J. & Euston Quah. Cost-benefit analysis, 5th ed. Routledge, 2007. 316p. (330.155 M678 5th)

NBER macroeconomics annual 2006, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff & Michael Woodford. The MIT Press, for the NBER, 2007. 472p. (339 N277 2006)

Nyhoff, Larry R. & Sanford C. Leestma. FORTRAN 90 for engineers and scientists. Prentice-Hall, 1997. 1071p. (005.3 N994)

Perloff, Jeffrey M., Larry S. Karp & Amos Golan. Estimating market power and strategies. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 340p. (338.8 P451)

The shadow workforce: perspectives on contingent work in the United States, Japan, and Europe, edited by Sandra E. Gleason. Upjohn Institute, 2006. 347p. (331.25 S524)

Van Overtveldt, Johan. The Chicago School: how the University of Chicago assembled the thinkers who revolutionized economics and business. Agate, 2007. 432p. (330.15 V272)

Zaloom, Caitlin. Out of the pits: traders and technology from Chicago to London. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 224p. (332.62 Z22)


October 2007

BOOKS

Barrett, Scott. Why cooperate? The incentive to supply global public goods. Oxford University Press, 2007. 258p. (363 B274)

Burgan, Mary. What ever happened to the faculty? Drift and decision in higher education. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 238p. (378.1 B954)

Caves, Richard E. Multinational enterprise and economic analysis, 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 391p. (338.8 C376 3rd)

Fagin, Ronald. Reasoning about knowledge. The MIT Press, 1995. 517p. (153.4 F155)

Fair trade: the challenges of transforming globalization, edited by Laura T. Reynolds, Douglas Murray & John Wilkinson. Routledge, 2007. 240p. (382.1 F163)

Fiscal policy and management in East Asia, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 2007. 458p. (339.52 F528)

Florens, Jean-Pierre, Velayoudom Marimoutou & Anne Peguin-Feissolle. Econometric modeling and inference. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 496p. (330.018 F632)

Frydman, Roman. Imperfect knowledge economics: exchange rates and risk. Princeton University Press, 2007. 340p. (339.01 F947)

Greene, William H. Econometric analysis, 6th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 1178p. (330.0182 G812 6th)

Handbook of industrial organization, vol. 3, edited by Mark Armstrong and Robert H. Porter. Elsevier North Holland, 2007. 916p. (338.6 H236 v.3)

Handbook of international trade, vol. 2: economic and legal analyses of trade policy and institutions, edited by E. Kwan Choi and James C. Hartigan. Blackwell, 2005. 575p. (382 H237 v.2)

Kaldor, Nicholas. Causes of growth and stagnation in the world economy. Cambridge University Press, 1996. 230p. (330.9034 K14)

Metrick, Andrew. Venture capital and the finance of innovation. Wiley, 2007. 568p. (332.041 M594)

Nicholson, Walter & Christopher Snyder. Microeconomic theory: basic principles and extensions. Thomson Southwestern, 2008. 740p. (338.001 N623 10th)

Palacios Lleras, Miguel. Investing in human capital: a capital markets approach to student funding. Cambridge University Press, 2004. (378.3 P153)

Press, William H., et al. Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing, 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 1235p. (001.64 P935 3rd)

Rebonato, Riccardo. Plight of the fortune tellers: why we need to manage financial risk differently. Princeton University Press, 2007. 272p. (332.6 R292)

Rodrik, Dani. One economics -- many recipes: globalization, institutions, and economic growth. Princeton University Press, 2007. 263p. (338.9 R697)

Salvatore, Dominick. International economics, 9th ed. Wiley, 2007. 838p. (382 S182 9th)

Social security programs and retirement around the world: fiscal implications of reform, edited by Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 2007. 541p. (368.4 S677f)

Sherman, Roger. Market regulation. Pearson Addison Wesley, 2008. 918p. (338.8 S553)

Shiryaev, A.N. Probability, 2nd ed. Springer, 1996. 621p. (519.5 S558 2nd)

The state of state reform in Latin America, edited by Eduardo Lora. Stanford University Press/The World Bank, 2007. 446p. (320.98 S797)

Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers, 7th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2007. 466p. (808.02 T929 Ref)

Williamson, Stephen D. Macroeconomics, 3rd ed. Pearson Addison Wesley, 2008. 692p. (339 W732 3rd)


November-December 2007

BOOKS

Barzun, Jacques. From dawn to decadence: 500 years of Western cultural life; 1500 to the present. Harper Collins, 2000. 877p. (940.2 B296)

Baumol, William J., Robert E. Litan & Carl J. Schraum. Good capitalism, bad capitalism, and the economics of growth and prosperity. Yale University Press, 2007. 321p. (330.12 B347)

Beard, Charles A. An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. Dover, 2004; reprint of the 1913 ed. 330p. (330.973 B368)

Chernow, Barbara A. Beyond the internet: successful research strategies. Bernan Press, 2007. 138p. (Reference)

Developments on experimental economics: new approaches to solving real-world problems, edited by Sobei H. Oda. Springer, 2007. 262p. (330.07 D489)

Findlay, Ronald & Kevin H. O'Rourke. Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium. Princeton University Press, 2007. 592p. (382.09 F494)

From resource allocation to stratgegy, edited by Joseph L. Bower & Clark G. Gilbert. Oxford University Press, 2005. 482p. (658.12 F931)

Goyal, Sanjeev. Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks. Princeton University Press, 2007. 289p. (302.3 G724)

Gramlich, Edward M. Subprime mortgages: America's latest boom and bust. Urban Institute Press, 2007. 108p. (332.7 G745)

Greenberg, Edward. Introduction to Bayesian econometrics. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 205p. (330.018 G798)

Handbook of international trade, volume 1, edited by E. Kwan Choi and James Harrigan. Blackwell, 2003. 435p. (382 H237 v.1)

Handbook of law and economics, volume 1, edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell. Elsevier North-Holland, 2007. 864p. (349.73 H236 v.1)

Hansen, Lars Peter & Thomas J. Sargent. Robustness. Princeton University Press, 2008. 435p. (330.0151 H249)

Krueger, Alan B. What makes a terrorist?: economics and the roots of terrorism. (Lionel Robbins Lectures). Princeton University Press, 2007. 180p. (303.6 K94)

Maddison, Angus. Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 A.D.: essays in macro-economic history. Oxford University Press, 2007. (330.9034 M178)

Mathews, John H. & Kurtis D. Fink. Numerical methods using MATLAB, 4th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. 680p. (519.4 M429 4th)

Montgomery, Douglas C. Design and analysis of experiments, 6th ed. Wiley, 2005. 643p. (001.434 M787 6th)

Razin, Assaf & Efraim Sadka. Foreign direct investment: analysis of aggregate flows. Princeton University Press, 2007. 144p. (332.67 R278)

Recktenwald, Gerald. Numerical methods with MATLAB: implementation and application. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2000. 786p. (519.4 R298)

Sheshinksi, Eytan. The economic theory of annuities. Princeton University Press, 2007. 163p. (368.37 S554)

Smith, Vernon L. Rationality in economics: constructivist and ecological forms. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 364p. (330.07 S663)

Taxing capital income, edited by Henry J. Aaron, Leonard E. Burman, and C. Eugene Steuerle. Urban Institute Press, 2007. 336p. (336.242 T234)

Tomz, Michael. Reputation and international cooperation: sovereign debt across three centuries. Princeton University Press, 2007. 299p. (336.36 T662)

Waldfogel, Joel. The tyranny of the market: why you can't always get what you want. Harvard University Press, 2007. 204p. (381 W163)


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