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Will You be Alive 10 Years from Now? "And Numerous Other Curious Questions in Probability"
Nahin, Paul J.
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691156804
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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What are the chances of a game-show contestant finding a chicken in a box? Is the Hanukkah dreidel a fair game? Will you be alive ten years from now? These are just some of the ...
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The Confidence Trap "A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present"
Runciman, David
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691148687
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In ...
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The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets
Boeri, Tito Van Ours, J.
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691158938
- Páginas: 464
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is ...
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Cities of Commerce "The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low"
Gelderblom, Oscar
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691142883
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. ...
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The Universe in Zero Words "The Story of Mathematics as Told Through Equations"
Mackenzie, Dana
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691160160
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. ...
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The Empire Trap "The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Prope"
Maurer, Noel
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691155821
- Páginas: 568
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property ...
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The Oil Curse "How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations"
Ross, Michael L.
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691159638
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Countries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, ...
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The Price of Rights "Regulating International Labor Migration"
Rush, Martin
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691132914
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant ...
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Mass Flourishing
Phelps, Edmund S.
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691158983
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper - and why the sources of that prosperity are under ...
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After Victory "Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order Af"
Ikenberry, John G.
Princeton University Press (2000)
- EAN: 9780691050911
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2000
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The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the World Wars in ...
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Lending to the Borrower from Hell "Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II"
Drelichman, Mauricio Voth, Hans-Joachim
Princeton University Press (2014)
- EAN: 9780691151496
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha de edición: 2014
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Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, ...
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Remembering Inflation
Granville, Brigitte
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691145402
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Today's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "Great Inflation" that spanned the late 1960s to early 1980s. Yet, in this book, Brigitte Granville makes the ...
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Empires in World History Power and the Politics of Difference
Burbank, Jane
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691127088
- Páginas: 528
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. "Empires in World History" departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives ...
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Exceptional People "How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future"
Goldin, Ian
Princeton University Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780691156316
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, ...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds "Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power"
Clark, Gordon L. Dixon, Adam D. Monk, Ashby H.B.
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691142296
- Páginas: 236
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and ...
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Competition Policy and Price Fixing
Kaplow, Louis
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691158624
- Páginas: 580
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings ...
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The European Economy Since 1945
Eichengreen, Barry
Princeton University Press (2008)
- EAN: 9780691138480
- Páginas: 520
- Fecha de edición: 2008
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In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's ...
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Economic Lives "How Culture Shapes the Economy"
Zelizer, Viviana
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691158105
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. ...
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Why Philanthropy Matters "How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Be"
Acs, Zoltan
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691148625
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation--and the world--has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy ...
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Human Capitalism "How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal"
Lindsey, Brink
Princeton University Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780691157320
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex ...
