Columbia Press: 2357 books
Beyond Biofatalism
Human Nature for an Evolving World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Beyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing income...
China Rising
Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms...
The Japan–South Korea Identity Clash
East Asian Security and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Japan and South Korea are Western-style democracies with open-market economies committed to the rule of law. They are also U.S. allies. Yet despite their shared interests, shared values, and geographic proximity, divergent national identities have driven a wedge between them. Drawing on decades of...
Enforcing the Peace
Learning from the Imperial Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping—with devastating results locally and around the globe. This daring new work argues that modern peacekeeping operations and military occupations...
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
The Continuing Evolution of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
While the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans, it has fallen short in offering universal health care to all. In Health Care as a Right of Citizenship, Gunnar Almgren argues that the ACA's primary significance...
by Amy Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Moral hazard—the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others—is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of moral...
The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism
Dominican Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from...
Engaged Journalism
Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Engaged Journalism explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers. Based on Jake Batsell's extensive experience and interaction with more than twenty innovative newsrooms, this book shows that, even...
by Howard Corb
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The first swap was executed over thirty years ago. Since then, the interest rate swaps and other derivative markets have grown and diversified in phenomenal directions. Derivatives are used today by a myriad of institutional investors for the purposes of risk management, expressing a view on the market,...
Narrative and Numbers
The Value of Stories in Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers...
Smart Growth
Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this...
The Call of Character
Living a Life Worth Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This volume connects the evolving modern financial systems of China, Japan, and Korea to the development and growth of their economies through the first decade of the twenty-first century. It also identifies the commonalities among all three systems while accounting for their social, political, and...
Acts of God and Man
Ruminations on Risk and Insurance
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and...