Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by David A. Kendrick, P. Ruben Mercado, Hans M. Amman
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics in software so that the model can be solved on a computer is a crucial skill for economists. Computational Economics contains well-known models--and some brand-new...
To Dare More Boldly
The Audacious Story of Political Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Ten lessons from history on the dos and don’ts of analyzing political risk
Our baffling new multipolar world grows ever more complex, desperately calling for new ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to political risk. To Dare More Boldly provides those ways, telling the story of the...
Why Government Fails So Often
And How It Can Do Better
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
From healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused...
The Quest for Prosperity
How Developing Economies Can Take Off - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin—the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank—focuses on what developing nations...
Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business....
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion.
Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people...
The Next Catastrophe
Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new...
by Matthew O. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to...
The Financial Diaries
How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce them
Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children....
Cents and Sensibility
What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that...
The Corruption Cure
How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally
Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure provides many of the required solutions and ranges...
Competition and Stability in Banking
The Role of Regulation and Competition Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that started...
Creative Destruction
How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this strikingly...
Currency Politics
The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite...