Libros de: Princeton University Press

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  • Bankers and Bolsheviks "International Finance and the Russian Revolution "

    Malik, Hassan

    Princeton University Press (2020)

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    • 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, ...

  • Making the Cut "Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment "

    Pedulla, David S.

    Princeton University Press (2020)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Secret Formula "How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation "

    Toscano, Fabio

    Princeton University Press (2020)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions

    Baland, Jean-Marie Bourguignon, Francois Platteau, Jean-Phillippe Verdier, Thierry

    Princeton University Press (2020)

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    • EAN: 9780691191218
    • Páginas: 768
    • Fecha de edición: 2020

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    The definitive reference on the most current economics of development and institutions

    The essential role that institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognized across the social sciences, including in economics. Academic ...

  • Under the Influence "Putting Peer Pressure to Work"

    Frank, Robert H.

    Princeton University Press (2020)

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    • EAN: 9780691193083
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2020

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    From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter future

    Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes ...

  • A Republic of Equals "A Manifesto for a Just Society"

    Rothwell, Jonathan Townsend

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691183763
    • Páginas: 392
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

    En tienda:
    35,10 €

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    Why political inequality is to blame for economic and social injustice

    Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access ...

  • The Outsiders "Refugees in Europe Since 1492"

    Ther, Philipp

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691179520
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    The history of Europe as a continent of refugees

    European history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion ...

  • The Passions and the Interests "Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph"

    Hirschman, A.

    Princeton University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780691160252
    • Páginas: 161
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

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    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin ...

  • American Default "The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle Over Gold "

    Edwards, Sebastian

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691196046
    • Páginas: 250
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy

    The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet ...

  • Sorting Out the Mixed Economy "The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas"

    Offner, Amy C.

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691190938
    • Páginas: 382
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    The untold story of how U.S. development efforts in postwar Latin America helped lead to the dismantling of the U.S. welfare state

    In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into ...

  • Our Great Purpose "Adam Smith on Living a Better Life"

    Hanley, Ryan Patrick

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691179445
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics

    Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who ...

  • Taking the Floor "Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room"

    Beunza, Daniel

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691162812
    • Páginas: 325
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured-organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading ...

  • A World Divided "The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States"

    Weitz, Eric

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691145440
    • Páginas: 552
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others

    Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to ...

  • American Bonds "How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation"

    Quinn, Sarah L.

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691156750
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunities

    Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, ...

  • Digital Cash "The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency"

    Brunton, Finn

    Princeton University Press (2019)

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    • EAN: 9780691179490
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2019

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    The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators'from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

    Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without ...

  • The Cash Ceiling "Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It"

    Carnes, Nicholas

    Princeton University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780691182001
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about it

    Why are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the ...

  • The Great Leveler "Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century"

    Scheidel, Walter

    Princeton University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780691183251
    • Páginas: 528
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history

    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, ...

  • A Culture of Growth "The Origins of the Modern Economy "

    Mokyr, Joel.

    Princeton University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780691180960
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

    pvp.33,95 €

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    Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution

    During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made ...

  • To Dare More Boldly "The Audacious Story of Political Risk"

    Hulsman, John C.

    Princeton University Press (2018)

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    • EAN: 9780691172194
    • Páginas: 344
    • Fecha de edición: 2018

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    Ten lessons from history on the dos and donts of analyzing political risk

    Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to ...

  • Capitalism "A Short History"

    Kocka, Jürgen

    Princeton University Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780691178226
    • Páginas: 208
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.21,00 €

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    In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and ...