SUBJECT INDEX:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS:

Creative Industries: Richard E. Caves; This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic: artists have strong views; the muse whispers erratically; and consumer approval remains highly uncertain until all costs have been incurred. To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China: Kang Chao; Hardcover 1977

Family Capitalism: Harold James; In Family Capitalism, Harold James tells how "iron masters" of a classical industrial cast were succeeded by new generations who wanted to shift to information-age systems technologies, and how families and firms wrestled with social and economic changes that occasionally tore them apart. Finally, the author shows how the trajectories of the firms were influenced by political, military, economic, and social events and how these firms illuminate a European model of "relationship capitalism."; Hardcover 2006

Killing for Coal: Thomas G. Andrews; This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.” In a story of transformation, Andrews illuminates the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers’ strikes over the course of nearly half a century.; Hardcover 2008

The Labor Wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: James Brennan; The labor wars in Cordoba have been mythologized as a Latin American equivalent to the French student strikes of May-June 1968 and the Italian "hot summer" of the same period. Brennan demonstrates that the pronounced militancy and even political radicalism of the Cordoban working class were due not only to Argentina's changing political culture but also to the dynamic relationship between the factory and society during those years.; Hardcover 1998

The Sound of the Whistle: Steven Ericson; In this detailed study of the development of the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period, Steven Ericson explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations during Japan's modern transformation.; Hardcover 1996

Switching Channels: Richard E. Caves; Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.; Hardcover 2005

The Tyranny of the Market: Joel Waldfogel; Economists have long counseled reliance on markets rather than on government to decide a wide range of questions, in part because allocation through voting can give rise to a "tyranny of the majority." Markets, by contrast, are believed to make products available to suit any individual, regardless of what others want. But the argument is not generally correct. In markets, you can't always get what you want. This book explores why this is so and its consequences for consumers with atypical preferences.; Hardcover 2007

Unclogging the Arteries: Mauricio Mesquita Moreira; Christian Volpe; Juan Blyde; This book explores the impact of transport costs on trade in Latin America and the Caribbean, and argues that transport costs have assumed an unprecedented strategic importance to the region. It concludes that a broader and more balanced trade agenda would bring the long-neglected issue of transport costs to the center of the policy debate.; Paperback 2009