Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Sense of Dissonance
Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used...
by Thomas D. Seeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal...
Chasing Stars
The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.
After examining...
by Elinor Ostrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides...
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of...
Code Red
An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's...
Global Production
Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the exchange of finished goods; rather, the majority of transactions...
Ground Wars
Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such...
Good and Plenty
The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts, or they believe that public arts funding should be dramatically...
Solomon's Knot
How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. The innovator must trust the investor with his...
The New Division of Labor
How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
As the current recession ends, many workers will not be returning to the jobs they once held--those jobs are gone. In The New Division of Labor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition to the...
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Complete First Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people...
Dictionary of Untranslatables
A Philosophical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.
This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political...
American Pulp
How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)
American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main...