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Distant Tyranny "Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800"
Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800Grafe, Regina
Princeton University Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780691144849
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic ...
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Google's PageRank and Beyond "The Science of Search Engine Rankings"
The Science of Search Engine RankingsLangville, Amy N. Meyer, Carl D.
Princeton University Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780691152660
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates these powerful rankings? ...
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The Darwin Economy "Liberty, Competiton and the Common Good"
Liberty, Competiton and the Common GoodFrank, Robert H.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691153193
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Who was the greater economist - Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, "New York Times" economics columnist and best-selling author ...
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Beauty Pays "Why Attractive People are More Successful"
Why Attractive People are More SuccessfulHamermesh, Daniel S.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691140469
- Páginas: 228
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much ...
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Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance
Veldkamp, Laura L.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691142203
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to ...
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The Sense of Dissonance "Accounts of Worth in Economic Life"
Accounts of Worth in Economic LifeStark, David
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691152486
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. ...
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Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance
Veldkamp, Laura L.
Princeton University Press (2023)
- EAN: 9780691248097
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2023
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Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to ...
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General Equilibrium Theory of Value
Balasko, Yves
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691146799
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance through pricing mechanisms. The mathematical ...
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Fault Lines "How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy"
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World EconomyRajan, Raghuram G.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691152639
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few ...
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This Time is Different "Eight Centuries of Financial Folly"
Eight Centuries of Financial FollyReinhart, Carmen M. Rogoff, Kenneth S.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691152646
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering - their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" ...
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The Tyranny of Utility "Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism"
Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of PaternalismGilles, Saint-Paul
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691128177
- Páginas: 174
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian - that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare - leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics ...
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The Poverty of Clio "Resurrecting Economic History"
Resurrecting Economic HistoryBoldizzoni, Francesco
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691144009
- Páginas: 228
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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"The Poverty of Clio" challenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative ...
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States of Credit "Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities"
Size, Power, and the Development of European PolitiesStasavage, David
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691140575
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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"States of Credit" provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that ...
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Symmetry
Weyl, Hermann
Princeton University Press (1983)
- EAN: 9780691023748
- Páginas: 173
- Fecha de edición: 1983
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Symmetry is one of the ideas by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty, and perfection. Starting from the concept that symmetry equals harmony of proportions, this book gradually ...
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Gravitation and Inertia
Ciufolini, Ignazio
Princeton University Press (1995)
- EAN: 9780691033235
- Páginas: 576
- Fecha de edición: 1995
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Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity - spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve - is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler. They ...
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The Classical Groups "Their Invariants and Representations"
Their Invariants and RepresentationsWeyl, Hermann
Princeton University Press (1997)
- EAN: 9780691057569
- Páginas: 316
- Fecha de edición: 1997
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In this renowned volume, Hermann Weyl discusses the symmetric, full linear, orthogonal, and symplectic groups and determines their different invariants and representations. Using basic concepts from algebra, he examines the various properties of the groups. ...
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Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
Jammer, Max
Princeton University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780691144320
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which are the subject of innumerable ...
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The Hesitant Hand "Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas"
Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic IdeasMedema, Steven G.
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691150000
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Adam Smith turned economic theory on its head in 1776 when he declared that the pursuit of self-interest mediated by the market itself - not by government - led, via an invisible hand, to the ...
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The Economics of Linguistic Diversity "How Many Languages Make Sense?"
How Many Languages Make Sense?Ginsburgh, Victor Weber, Shlomo
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691136899
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some ...
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Unified Growth Theory
Galor, Oded
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691130026
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth ...