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by Pranab Bardhan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's...
The Optics of Life
A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Optics--a field of physics focusing on the study of light--is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany, animal behavior, neurobiology, and molecular biology. The Optics of Life introduces the fundamentals of optics to biologists and nonphysicists, giving them the tools...
Lawlessness and Economics
Alternative Modes of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that transcend...
Beyond Mechanical Markets
Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption--that...
by Giuseppe Bertola, Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
This book looks at the distribution of income and wealth and the effects that this has on the macroeconomy, and vice versa. Is a more equal distribution of income beneficial or harmful for macroeconomic growth, and how does the distribution of wealth evolve in a market economy? Taking stock of results...
Meeting at Grand Central
Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored....
by Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid, Philippe Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively...
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings...
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
A Minority Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious...
The Muslim Brotherhood
Evolution of an Islamist Movement - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are disputed and remain open to debate. Drawing on more...
Of Empires and Citizens
Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a strong...
Egypt after Mubarak
Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Egypt after Mubarak reveals that Egypt's secularists and Islamists may yet navigate a middle...
Caliphate Redefined
The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception...
Climate Shock
The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe...