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The Axe And The Oath "Ordinary Life In The Middle Ages"
Ordinary Life In The Middle AgesFossier, Robert
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691143125
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, ...
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Market Threads How Cotton Farmers And Traders Create a Global Commodity
Caliskan, Koray
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691142418
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton ...
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Economic Lives How Culture Shapes The Economy
Zelizer, Viviana
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691139364
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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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 People Cooperate The Role Of Social Motivations
Tyler, Tom
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691146904
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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Any organization's success depends upon the voluntary cooperation of its members. But what motivates people to cooperate? In Why People Cooperate, Tom Tyler challenges the decades-old notion that individuals within groups are primarily motivated by ...
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Beyond The Invisible Hand Groundwork For a New Economics
Basu, Kaushik
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691137162
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This ...
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How Big Banks Fail And What To Do About It
Duffie, Darrell
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691148854
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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Dealer banks--that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs--are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. When they fail, ...
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The Best Writing On Mathematics 2010
Pitici, Mircea
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691148410
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, The Best Writing on Mathematics makes available to a ...
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Running The World's Markets The Governance Of Financial Infrastructure
Lee, Ruben
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691133539
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their importance, there ...
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The Squam Lake Report Fixing The Financial System
Varios
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691148847
- Páginas: 168
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.
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Zombie Economics How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
Quiggin, John
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691145822
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.
The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of ... -
Thinking About Leadership
Keohane, Nannerl O.
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691142074
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely ...
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The New Lombard Street. "How The Fed Became The Dealer Of Last Resort"
How The Fed Became The Dealer Of Last ResortMehrling, Perry
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691143989
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure ...
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Economics Evolving. "A History Of Economic Thought"
A History Of Economic ThoughtSandmo, Agnar
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691148427
- Páginas: 424
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the late twentieth century.
The text concentrates ... -
Max Weber In America.
Scaff, Lawrence
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691147796
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played ...
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Durkheim And The Birth Of Economic Sociology.
Steiner, Philippe
Princeton University Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780691140551
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Émile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology is the first book to provide an in-depth look at ...
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The Handbook Of Economic Sociology
Smelser, Neil
Princeton University Press (2005)
- EAN: 9780691121253
- Páginas: 748
- Fecha de edición: 2005
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The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a ...
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Innovation, Intellectual Property And Economic Growth
Greenhalgh, Christine Rogers, Max
Princeton University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780691137995
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis ...
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Economic Gangsters "Corruption, Violence, And The Poverty Of Nations"
Corruption, Violence, And The Poverty Of NationsFisman, Raymond
Princeton University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780691144696
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him - he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese ...
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The Calculus Of Shelfishness
Sigmund, Karl
Princeton University Press (2009)
- EAN: 9780691142753
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2009
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How does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals? When do people share resources, punish those they consider unfair, and engage in joint enterprises? These questions fascinate philosophers, biologists, and economists alike, for the 'invisible hand' that ...
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Identity Economics "How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, And Well-Being"
How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, And Well-BeingAkerlof, George A. Kranton, Rachel E.
Princeton University Press (2010)
- EAN: 9780691146485
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2010
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In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people ...
