Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Experimental Capitalism
The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries—automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin—and...
The Household
Informal Order around the Hearth
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence...
The Gifts of Athena
Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its...
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy
The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on...
#Republic
Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about it
As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies...
Censored
Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in China
As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and...
The Contentious Public Sphere
Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media,...
The Bounds of Reason
Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement...
The Reputational Premium
A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional attachment, this pioneering book explains why party identification in contemporary...
The Tyranny of Utility
Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these interventions for utilitarian...
Family Values
The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality...
The Republic of Beliefs
A New Approach to Law and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the law
In The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world's leading economists, argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws and has failed to answer certain critical questions...
Government Paternalism
Nanny State or Helpful Friend?
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Should governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana—or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breaches...
by Scott E. Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it...