Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by Peter Tamas Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings...
A Way Out
America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate...
Climbing Mount Laurel
The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Under the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town...
Slumming
Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming....
Mass Flourishing
How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating...
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....
by Anthony B. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world
In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world’s great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality,...
The Golden Ticket
P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining...
Party Competition
An Agent-Based Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes that are continuously evolving, yet classical theoretical approaches to the subject leave many important questions unanswered. Here Michael Laver and Ernest Sergenti offer...
by Cormac Ó Gráda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this...
Rational Expectations and Inflation
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
This collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Rational expectations theory is based on the...
The Myth of Independence
How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Born out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the world. The Myth of Independence traces the Fed’s transformation from a weak, secretive, and decentralized institution in 1913 to a remarkably transparent central...
by François Bourguignon, François Bourguignon
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
The worldwide rise of sovereign wealth funds is emblematic of the ongoing transformation of nation-state economic prospects. Sovereign Wealth Funds maps the global footprints of these financial institutions, examining their governance and investment management, and issues of domestic and international...