Libros de: Princeton University Press

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  • Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance

    Veldkamp, Laura L.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Sense of Dissonance "Accounts of Worth in Economic Life"
    Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

    Stark, David

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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. ...

  • Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance

    Veldkamp, Laura L.

    Princeton University Press (2023)

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    • 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 ...

  • General Equilibrium Theory of Value

    Balasko, Yves

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • Fault Lines "How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy"
    How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

    Rajan, Raghuram G.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • This Time is Different "Eight Centuries of Financial Folly"
    Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

    Reinhart, Carmen M. Rogoff, Kenneth S.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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" ...

  • The Tyranny of Utility "Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism"
    Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism

    Gilles, Saint-Paul

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Poverty of Clio "Resurrecting Economic History"
    Resurrecting Economic History

    Boldizzoni, Francesco

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • States of Credit "Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities"
    Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities

    Stasavage, David

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • Symmetry

    Weyl, Hermann

    Princeton University Press (1983)

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    • 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 ...

  • Gravitation and Inertia

    Ciufolini, Ignazio

    Princeton University Press (1995)

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    • EAN: 9780691033235
    • Páginas: 576
    • Fecha de edición: 1995

    pvp.99,75 €

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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 ...

  • The Classical Groups "Their Invariants and Representations"
    Their Invariants and Representations

    Weyl, Hermann

    Princeton University Press (1997)

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    • 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. ...

  • Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy

    Jammer, Max

    Princeton University Press (2009)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Hesitant Hand "Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas"
    Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas

    Medema, Steven G.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Economics of Linguistic Diversity "How Many Languages Make Sense?"
    How Many Languages Make Sense?

    Ginsburgh, Victor Weber, Shlomo

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • Unified Growth Theory

    Galor, Oded

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • 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 ...

  • Guaranteed to Fail "Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance"
    Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance

    Acharya, Viral V.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • EAN: 9780691150789
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

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    The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to ...

  • Peddling Protectionism "Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression"
    Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

    Irwin, Douglas

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • EAN: 9780691150321
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.23,65 €

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    The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record levels, is America's most infamous trade law. It is often associated with - and sometimes blamed for - the ...

  • The New Global Rulers "The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy"
    The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy

    Buthe, Tim Mattli, Walter

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • EAN: 9780691144795
    • Páginas: 312
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

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    Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for ...

  • Exchange-Rate Dynamics

    Evans, Martin D.D.

    Princeton University Press (2011)

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    • EAN: 9780691150895
    • Páginas: 600
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.75,70 €

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    Variations in the foreign exchange market influence all aspects of the world economy, and understanding these dynamics is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a new, comprehensive, and in-depth examination ...