Libros de: Princeton University Press
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American Default "The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold"
Edwards, Sebastian
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691161884
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy
The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet ... -
Small Wars, Big Data "The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict"
Berman, Eli Felter, Joseph H. Shapiro, Jacob N.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691177076
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight todays conflicts more effectively
The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play ... -
Totally Random "Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement)"
Bub, Jeffrey Bub, Tanya
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691176956
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanics
Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics--entanglement: what it is, what ... -
A Culture of Growth "The Origins of the Modern Economy "
Mokyr, Joel.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691180960
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made ... -
How Growth Really Happens "The Making of Economic Miracles through Production, Governance, and Skills"
Best, Michael H.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691179254
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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A groundbreaking study that shows how countries can create innovative, production-based economies for the twenty-first century
Achieving economic growth is one of today's key challenges. In this groundbreaking book, Michael Best argues that to ... -
Currency Power "Understanding Monetary Rivalry"
Cohen, Benjamin
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691181066
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the ...
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A World of Struggle "How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy"
Kennedy, David
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691180878
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a ...
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#Republic "Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media"
Sunstein, Cass R.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691180908
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy'and what can be done about it
As the Internet ... -
Unelected Power "The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State"
Tucker, Paul
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691176734
- Páginas: 656
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good
Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside ... -
Pricing Lives "Guideposts for a Safer Society"
Viscusi, Kip W.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691179216
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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How societys undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk'and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it
Like it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. ... -
Radical Markets "Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society"
Posner, Eric A. Weyl, E. Glen
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691177502
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all
Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in ... -
The Opinion of Mankind "Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith"
Sagar, Paul
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691178882
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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How David Hume and Adam Smith forged
a new way of thinking about the modern state
What is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best ... -
Marx's Inferno "The Political Theory of Capital"
Roberts, William Clare
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691180816
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Marxs Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marxs Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was ...
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To Dare More Boldly "The Audacious Story of Political Risk"
Hulsman, John C.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691172194
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Ten lessons from history on the dos and donts of analyzing political risk
Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to ... -
The Tyranny of Metrics
Muller, Jerry Z.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691174952
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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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 ... -
The Mystery of the Kibbutz "Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World"
Abramitzky, Ran
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691177533
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declined
The kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income ... -
American Empire "A Global History"
Hopkins, A.G.
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691177052
- Páginas: 960
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head
American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of ... -
The Origins of Happiness "The Science of Well-Being Over the Life Course "
Clark, Andrew Flèche, Sarah Layard, Richard Powdthavee, Nattavudh Ward, George
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691177892
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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What makes people happy? Why should governments care about peoples well-being? How would policy change if well-being were the main objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and ...
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Continuous-Time Models in Corporate Finance, Banking, and Insurance "A User's Guide"
Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago Rochet ,Jean-Charles
Princeton University Press (2018)
- EAN: 9780691176529
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2018
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Continuous-Time Models in Corporate Finance synthesizes four decades of research to show how stochastic calculus can be used in corporate finance. Combining mathematical rigor with economic intuition, Santiago Moreno-Bromberg and Jean-Charles Rochet analyze corporate decisions ...
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The Moral Economists "R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism"
Rogan, Tim
Princeton University Press (2017)
- EAN: 9780691173009
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2017
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A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens
Whats wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led ...