Princeton University Press
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Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future
Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevita- Author: Levinson, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227098
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest
$49.92 Add to cartHow the greatest thinkers in finance changed the field and how their wisdom can help investors today
Is there an ideal portfolio of investment assets, one that perfectly balances risk and reward? In P- Author: Lo, Andrew W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0691215200
- Language: English
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Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
$58.33 Add to cartWhat all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond
It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinst- Author: Bazerman, Max H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691236542
- Language: English
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Essays on the Great Depression
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic eco
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254133
- Language: English
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Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
$24.95 Read moreThe scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as dive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #49
- Author: Sornette, Didier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175950
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
$12.95 Add to cartBen Bernanke’s history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisis
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Res- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165572
- Language: English
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Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
$22.95 Add to cartHow identity influences the economic choices we make
Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities-and not just economic in- Author: Akerlof, George A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0691152551
- Language: English
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and h- Author: Silber, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208697
- Language: English
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Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
$26.60 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting in- Author: Haskel, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691236038
- Language: English
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
$29.95 Add to cartWhy stable banking systems are so rare
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has h- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #50
- Author: Calomiris, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168350
- Language: English
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Gdp: A Brief But Affectionate History – Revised and Expanded Edition
$16.95 Add to cartHow GDP came to rule our lives-and why it needs to change
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013-or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did- Author: Coyle, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169853
- Language: English
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The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartHow trade imbalances spurred on the global financial crisis and why we aren’t out of trouble yet
China’s economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating ser- Author: Pettis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163626
- Language: English
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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him
- Series: Princeton Classics #4
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160244
- Language: English
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What W.H. Auden Can Do for You
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith’s charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life–and how he might guide yours, too
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie–E- Series: Writers on Writers #5
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234531
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Invisible Hand
$16.95 Add to cartEconomics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murder
In The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Henry Spearman, an economics professor with a knack fo- Series: Henry Spearman Mysteries
- Author: Jevons, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173087
- Language: English
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The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany
$22.95 Add to cartTwenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter nights, featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad dash at midnight, and more
In the late nineteenth century, the folklo- Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales #28
- Author: Luzel, Francois-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691252696
- Language: English
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Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text (Vol. 1)
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship w… [more below]
- Author: Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181012
- Language: English
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The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales
$22.95 Add to cartA collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales–most in English for the first time
The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 an- Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales #18
- Author: Mazzoni, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0691199787
- Language: English
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Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
$29.95 Add to cartAn engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers
More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in Ameri- Author: Marcus, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254338
- Language: English
