Economics & Public Policy Extra

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Why capitalism survives crises : the shock absorbers / edited by Paul Zarembka.
Bingley : JAI, 2009.
ECONOMICS F 11 ZAR

Building bridges : China’s growing role as infrastructure financier for sub-Saharan Africa / Vivien Foster [et al] 
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009.
ECONOMICS L 89 FOS

Consumer credit fundamentals / Steven Finlay.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
ECONOMICS R 40 FIN

Mostly harmless econometrics : an empiricist’s companion / Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2009.
ECONOMICS R 14 ANG

Rejecting rights / Sonu Bedi.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
HUMAN RIGHTS A 241 BED

The causes of war / David Sobek.
Cambridge : Polity, c2009.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XE 15 SOB

The right to rule : how states win and lose legitimacy / Bruce Gilley.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
PUBLIC POLICY JC 497 GIL

Local government today / J.A. Chandler.
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
PUBLIC POLICY JS 3111 CHA

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