Libros de: Princeton University Press
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Theory and Credibility "Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science"
Ashworth, Scott Berry, Christopher R. Bueno De Mesquita, Ethan
Princeton University Press (2021)
- EAN: 9780691213828
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2021
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A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science
The credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among ... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue "Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages"
Keen, Michael Slemrod, Joel
Princeton University Press (2021)
- EAN: 9780691199542
- Páginas: 536
- Fecha de edición: 2021
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An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages
Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are ... -
The Profit Paradox "How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work"
Eeckhout, Jan
Princeton University Press (2021)
- EAN: 9780691214474
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2021
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In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the worlds working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so ...
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The Political Economy of International Relations
Gilpin, Robert
Princeton University Press (1992)
- EAN: 9780691022628
- Páginas: 472
- Fecha de edición: 1992
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After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the ...
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Urban Economics and Fiscal Policy
Sieg, Holger
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691190846
- Páginas: 552
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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With more than half of todays global GDP being produced by approximately four hundred metropolitan centers, learning about the economics of cities is vital to understanding economic prosperity. This textbook introduces graduate and upper-division undergraduate ...
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The Political Economy of the Special Relationship "Anglo-American Development from the Gold Standard to the Financial Crisis"
Green, Jeremy
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691197326
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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How Americas global financial power was created and shaped through its special relationship with Britain
The rise of global finance in the latter half of the twentieth century has long been understood as one chapter ... -
Porcelain "A History from the Heart of Europe"
Marchand, Suzanne L.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691182339
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Porcelain was invented in medieval China'but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxonys revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelains ...
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The Open Sea "The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome"
Manning, J.G.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691202303
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of ...
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Narrative Economics "How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events "
Shiller, Robert J.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691210261
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events-and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses
Stories people tell-about financial ... -
The industrialists "How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism"
Delton, Jennifer A.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691167862
- Páginas: 358
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers'NAM'helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group ...
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Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons "From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable "
Nahin, Paul J.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691191720
- Páginas: 215
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and universe, from how ... -
The Evolution of Knowledge "Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene"
Renn, Jürgen
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691171982
- Páginas: 584
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology
This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human ... -
A Crisis of Beliefs "Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility"
Gennaioli, Nicola Shleifer, Andrei
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691202235
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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How beliefs shape financial markets and expose the economy to major risks
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through ... -
Free Trade Under Fire
Irwin, Douglas
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691201009
- Páginas: 350
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Free trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of ...
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Overload "How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It "
Kelly, Erin L. Moen, Phyllis
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691179179
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies'and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line
Todays ways of working are not working'even for professionals ... -
Bankers and Bolsheviks "International Finance and the Russian Revolution "
Malik, Hassan
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691202228
- Páginas: 295
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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A must-read financial history for investors navigating today's volatile global markets
Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and Bolsheviks, ... -
Gods and Robots "Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology "
Mayor, Adrienne
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691202266
- Páginas: 277
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines
The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called ... -
Making the Cut "Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment "
Pedulla, David S.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691175102
- Páginas: 193
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories
Millions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills ... -
Outsourcing Empire "How Company-States Made the Modern World"
Phillips, Andrew Sharman, J.C.
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691203515
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order
From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing ... -
The Secret Formula "How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation "
Toscano, Fabio
Princeton University Press (2020)
- EAN: 9780691183671
- Páginas: 162
- Fecha de edición: 2020
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The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebra
The Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, and contentious debates led to the discovery of ...