Princeton University Press: 2605 books
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two...
Capitalism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China,...
Sovereignty
Organized Hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1999
The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state. Here a leading expert challenges this conclusion. Stephen Krasner contends that states...
A Social Strategy
How We Profit from Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than 1 billion users and account for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives--from friendship and dating to news...
by Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds...
Between Debt and the Devil
Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In this eye-opening book, he sets the record straight about what really caused the crisis. It didn’t...
Read My Lips
Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A surprising and revealing look at what Americans really believe about taxes
Conventional wisdom holds that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Bringing together national survey data with in-depth interviews, Read My Lips presents a surprising picture of tax attitudes...
The Diversity Bonus
How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott...
The Little Big Number
How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP only measures output. It ignores central facts such...
Paying the Tab
The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands down, is alcohol. The pain comes not only from drunk driving and lost lives but also addiction, family strife, crime, violence, poor health, and squandered human potential. Young and old, drinkers and...
Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters
How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the conclusion of this engaging and provocative analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just 8 players...
by Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this...
Beyond Our Means
Why America Spends While the World Saves
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively. What can we learn from East Asian and European countries that have fostered enduring cultures of thrift over the past two centuries? Beyond Our Means tells for the first time...
Mathematical Techniques in Finance
Tools for Incomplete Markets - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Originally published in 2003, Mathematical Techniques in Finance has become a standard textbook for master's-level finance courses containing a significant quantitative element while also being suitable for finance PhD students. This fully revised second edition continues to offer a carefully crafted...