Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Keys to the City
How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional...
by Joseph R. Strayer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state....
The Evolution of a Nation
How Geography and Law Shaped the American States
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book...
Deep Roots
How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South
Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights,...
Feeding Gotham
The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades. Feeding Gotham looks at how America's first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants....
Magazines and the Making of America
Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741–1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only...
Europe's Orphan
The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe's Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a compelling defense...
Adaptive Markets
Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behavior
Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists...
Across the Board
The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Across the Board is the definitive work on chessboard problems. It is not simply about chess but the chessboard itself--that simple grid of squares so common to games around the world. And, more importantly, the fascinating mathematics behind it. From the Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination...
The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects
Research in Recreational Math
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and...
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan...
by Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen, Albert O. Hirschman
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the...
A World of Struggle
How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born.
In this...
by Raymond Geuss
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political...