2019 Princeton University Press

The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators'from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent ...

2019 Princeton University Press

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality'a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the worlds great ...

2019 Princeton University Press

Which countries grow faster economically'those with strong beliefs in heaven and hell or those with weak beliefs in them? Does religious participation matter? Why do some countries experience secularization while others are religiously vibrant? In ...

2019 Princeton University Press

Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine'it isn't. Not Working is about those who cant find full-time work at a decent wage'the underemployed'and how their plight is contributing ...

2019 Princeton University Press

The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by ...

2019 Princeton University Press

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political ...

2019 Princeton University Press

David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as 'the Great Infidel' for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to ...

2019 Princeton University Press

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the worlds biggest problems There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the worlds most difficult problems, such ...

2019 Princeton University Press

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on ...

2019 Princeton University Press

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers ...

2019 Princeton University Press

Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented ...

2019 Princeton University Press

While work in international relations has closely examined the decline of great powers, not much attention has been paid to the question of their rise. The upward trajectory of China is a particularly puzzling case. ...

2019 Princeton University Press

From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with ...

2019 Princeton University Press

From a pioneer in experimental economics, an expanded and updated edition of a textbook that brings economic experiments into the classroom Economics is rapidly becoming a more experimental science, and the best way to convey ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists cant agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes'and failures'of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitts bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple ...

2019 Princeton University Press

An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession'but not our economics. In The End of Theory, ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing ...