Lawrence F. Katz Book order

A century ago, it as given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, they are more female college graduates than ever before, yet challenges persist at work and at home. Claudia Goldin traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing with true equity for dual-career couples remains frustratingly out of reach. Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, with valuable, are not enough. 'Career and Family' explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equality.

The US and China are in fact each other's most important partner in trade among many aspects. In this book, Lau looks through various economic statistics of the past few decades and shows us that while the real effects of the China-US trade war in 2018 are not negligible, they are relatively manageable for both nations.

Presents an analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. This book proposes that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century.

This text includes an overview of the Chinese economic reform, which commenced in 1979, identifying the factors responsible for its success. Alternative scenarios for the development of the Chinese economy in the 21st century are also presented and interpreted.