Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 698-700
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
The University

Dennis Epple of Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business reviews “Information, Incentives, and Education Policy,” by Derek A. Neal. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Based on lectures presented at the Grossman Prize Lecture Series in economics at the University of Chicago, explains key economic insights concerning the role of education in modern societies and analyzes important public policy questions that surround the funding and regulation of schools.”

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Harm Principle ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The University ◽  
The Harm Principle

Jonathan Guryan of University of Chicago reviews “Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls” by Jim Leitzel,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Provides an interdisciplinary lens for examining vice policy, focusing on traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. Discusses the harm principle; addiction--rational and otherwise; the robustness principle; prohibition; taxation, licensing, and advertising controls; commercial sex; the Internet and vice; and free trade and federalism. Leitzel teaches public policy and economics at the University of Chicago. Index.”

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
The University ◽  
Disadvantaged Families ◽  
Fair Chance

Katrine V. Loken of University of Bergen reviews, “Giving Kids a Fair Chance” by James J. Heckman. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twelve papers examine birth into disadvantaged families as the main source of inequality in America today. Papers focus on giving kids a fair chance; aiding the life cycle; the sources of inequality; the role of schools in solving social problems; and the most effective ways to invest public resources. Heckman is the corecipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.”

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Machu Picchu ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The University ◽  
Literary Encounters ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Randy Malamud, The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist. Chicago/Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2018, vii + 236 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1783208746, $29.50 (paperback).Mark Rice, Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth Century Peru (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), xvi + 253 pp., ISBN 978-1-4696-4353-3, $28.75 (paperback).Jeffrey Mather, Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form (New York: Routledge, 2020), ix + 182 pp., ISBN 978-1-03-208815-0, US $48.95 (paperback).

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