Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Identity Economics
How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent...
The New Lombard Street
How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that...
An Uncertain Glory
India and its Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic...
Behavioral Game Theory
Experiments in Strategic Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close this...
Beautiful Game Theory
How Soccer Can Help Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including...
by Fumio Hayashi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Hayashi's Econometrics promises to be the next great synthesis of modern econometrics. It introduces first year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics...
by Yacine Aït-Sahalia, Jean Jacod
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial data has grown exponentially. This growth has been driven...
by Jonathan Bendor, Daniel Diermeier, David A. Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. While these formulations produce many insights, they also generate anomalies--most famously, about turnout. The rise of behavioral economics has posed new challenges to the premise of rationality. This groundbreaking...
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many...
GDP
A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s...
How Global Currencies Work
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan
At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday...
A Cooperative Species
Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to...
Power and Plenty
Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full account...
States of Credit
Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European...