Columbia University Press imprint: 2220 books
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...
The Demand for Health
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body...
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of...
Aid Dependence in Cambodia
How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country's social indicators and the integrity of its political institutions declined rapidly within a few short years, while inequality...
by Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of the origins and mechanics of capitalism that sounds an alarm about its ongoing viability. Their theory centers on trade between the core economies of the global North and the tropical and subtropical countries...
A World Safe for Capitalism
Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002
This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. Theodore Roosevelt plays...
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published...