Libros de: Princeton University Press

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  • 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 ...

  • 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

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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

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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 ...

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

    Irwin, Douglas

    Princeton University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780691178066
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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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 onset of the Great ...

  • The Sum of Small Things "A Theory of the Aspirational Class"

    Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth

    Princeton University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780691162737
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all



    In todays world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. ...

  • Masters of Craft "Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy"

    Ocejo, Richard E.

    Princeton University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780691165493
    • Páginas: 369
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations



    In todays new economy'in which 'good' jobs are typically knowledge or technology based'many well-educated ...

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

    Scheidel, Walter

    Princeton University Press (2017)

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    • EAN: 9780691165028
    • Páginas: 528
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

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    Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone ...

  • The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

    Brunnermeier, Markus K. James, Harold Landau, Jean-Pierre

    Princeton University Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780691172927
    • Páginas: 448
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In ...

  • Myth and Measurement "The New Economics of the Minimum Wage"

    Card, David Krueger, Alan

    Princeton University Press (2016)

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    • EAN: 9780691169125
    • Páginas: 456
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

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    29,95 €

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    David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce ...

  • Phishing for Phools "The Economics of Manipulation and Deception"

    Akerlof, George A. Shiller, Robert J.

    Princeton University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780691168319
    • Páginas: 288
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

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    Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and ...

  • Mastering Metrics "The Path from Cause to Effect"

    Angrist, Joshua Pischke, Jörn-Steffen

    Princeton University Press (2015)

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    • EAN: 9780691152844
    • Páginas: 304
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.49,95 €

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    Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of ...

  • The Battle of Bretton Woods "John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order"

    Steil, Ben

    Princeton University Press (2014)

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    • EAN: 9780691162379
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2014

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    When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives ...

  • Running Randomized Evaluations "A Practical Guide"

    Glennerster, Rachel Takavarasha, Kudzai

    Princeton University Press (2013)

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    • EAN: 9780691159270
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2013

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    This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of ...