Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by Ben S. Bernanke
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between...
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to...
Phishing for Phools
The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
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 Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that...
Animal Spirits
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this...
Portfolios of the Poor
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more...
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to...
Efficiently Inefficient
How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain...
The Long Divergence
How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind--in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead....
The Soulful Science
What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
For many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" rings true--especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes...
Between Slavery and Capitalism
The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late...
Guesstimation 2.0
Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance,...
Debtor Nation
The History of America in Red Ink
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to millions of American debtors. How did...
The Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and...
The Invisible Hook
The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining,...