2022 Princeton University Press

How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. ...

2022 Princeton University Press

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies'money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains ...

2022 Princeton University Press

Fueled by populism and the frustrations of the disenfranchised, the past few years have witnessed the widespread rejection of the economic and political order that Western countries built up after 1945. Political debates have turned ...

2022 Princeton University Press

The elder Plinys Natural History (77 CE), an astonishing compilation of 20,000 'things worth knowing,' was avowedly intended to be a repository of ancient Mediterranean knowledge for the use of craftsmen and farmers, but this ...

2022 Princeton University Press

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economy The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ...

2022 Princeton University Press

To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to ...

2022 Princeton University Press

With nationalism on the rise around the world, many worry that nationalistic attitudes could lead to a surge in deadly conflict. To combat this trend, federations like the European Union have tried to build inclusive ...

2022 Princeton University Press

Fiscal crises and sovereign default repeatedly threaten the stability and growth of economies around the world. Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador provide a unified and tractable theoretical framework that elucidates the key economics behind sovereign ...

2022 Princeton University Press

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America's leading intelligence experts Spying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, ...

2022 Princeton University Press

In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing the Concert of Europe. This new coalition planted the seeds for ...

2022 Princeton University Press

In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new Peoples Republic of China was how much they did not know. The government of ...

2022 Princeton University Press

An introduction to data science or statistics shouldnt involve proving complex theorems or memorizing obscure terms and formulas, but that is exactly what most introductory quantitative textbooks emphasize. In contrast, Thinking Clearly with Data focuses, ...

2021 Princeton University Press

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the ...

2021 Princeton University Press

Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio examines this question by profiling and interviewing ten of the most prominent figures in ...

2021 Princeton University Press

Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens form opinions on international trade. While dominant explanations in economics emphasize personal self-interest'and whether individuals gain or lose financially as a result of trade'this book ...

2021 Princeton University Press

Historical accounts of democracys rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer'democratic practices were present ...

2021 Princeton University Press

The classic work on qualitative methods in political science Designing Social Inquiry presents a unified approach to qualitative and quantitative research in political science, showing how the same logic of inference underlies both. This stimulating ...

2021 Princeton University Press

A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars ...

2021 Princeton University Press

In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the worlds working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so ...

2021 Princeton University Press

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms In the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called ...