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 ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it ...

2019 Princeton University Press

From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about it Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed'and those that dont Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its way Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedmans prediction ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined ...

2019 Princeton University Press

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today This is the story of silvers transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations ...

2019 Princeton University Press

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They ...