Yale University Press: 2009 books
Wildcat Currency
How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today’s economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card companies offer points...
Intuition
Its Powers and Perils
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this engaging and accessible book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with...
by Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the Stalinist...
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
A Critique of Applications in Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1994
This is the first comprehensive critical evaluation of the use of rational choice theory in political science. Writing in an accessible and nontechnical style, Donald P. Green and Ian Shapiro assess rational choice theory where it is reputed to be most successful: the study of collective action, the...
The Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out”...
All Measures Short of War
The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response
The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order....
by Philip Martin, Manolo Abella, Christiane Kuptsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration...
Sustainability by Design
A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The developed world, increasingly aware of inconvenient truths” about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies-eco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually...
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker’s prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities—revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,...
by Jerry L. Mashaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them...
Citizens' Wealth
Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andrés Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation’s historic copper boom in two Sovereign Wealth Funds. A year later, when prices plummeted and unemployment soared, Chile’s government was able to stimulate recovery by drawing on the funds.
