Economic geography Books
University of California Press Soviet National Income 19581964
£55.00
University of California Press Panama at the Crossroads
£34.00
University of California Press Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis
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£34.00
University of California Press Regulatory Choices
£42.00
University of California Press Pilot Project India
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
£35.70
University of California Press Economic Development of Communist China
£39.74
University of California Press Soviet National Income 19581964
£88.00
University of California Press Panama at the Crossroads
£83.96
University of California Press Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis
£83.48
University of California Press Regulatory Choices
£84.85
University of California Press Pilot Project India
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
£85.99
University of California Press Economic Development of Communist China
£85.60
University of California Press China
Book SynopsisThis title offers a profound exploration of one of the world's oldest civilizations and its pivotal role in shaping global history and modern international relations. This volume, part of a series aimed at fostering mutual understanding among Allied nations during and after World War II, provides a comprehensive and realistic account of China's cultural evolution, societal institutions, and historical milestones. Drawing on contributions from distinguished scholars, the book delves into China's religious and secular thought systems, artistic achievements, economic progress, and political dynamics, offering insights that resonate with both its ancient heritage and its position in the 20th-century global order. Focusing on objective analysis over sentimentality, the book highlights China's resilience and adaptability amid internal and external challenges. It underscores the importance of understanding China's rich historical context to appreciate its contemporary developments. This volume not only serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to deepen their knowledge of China but also embodies the spirit of international cooperation, aiming to enhance postwar collaboration and foster a more harmonious global community. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1946.
£88.00
University of California Press China
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£55.00
Random House USA Inc Futureproof
Book SynopsisA practical, deeply reported survival guide for the age of AI, written by the New York Times tech columnist who has introduced millions to the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. “Artificial intelligence can be terrifying, but Kevin Roose provides a clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with our jobs—and souls—intact.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of HabitIt’s time to get real about AI. After decades of hype and sci-fi fantasies, AI—artificial intelligence—is leaping out of research labs and into the center of our lives. Millions of people now use tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to write essays, create art and finish coding projects. AI programs are already beating humans in fields like law, medicine and entertainment, and they’re getting better every day. But AI doesn’t just threaten our jobs. It shapes our entire human experience, steering our behavior and influencing our choices about which TV shows to watch, which clothes to buy, and which politicians to vote for. And while many experts argue about whether a robot apocalypse is near, one critical question has gone unanswered: In a world where AI is ascendant, how can humans survive and thrive? In Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose shares the secrets of people and organizations that have successfully navigated waves of technological change, and explains what skills are necessary to stay ahead of the curve today, with lessons like • Be surprising, social, and scarce• Resist machine drift• Leave handprints• Demote your devices• Treat AI like a chimp army Roose rejects the conventional wisdom that in order to compete with AI, we have to become more like robots ourselves—hyper-efficient, data-driven workhorses. Instead, he says, we should focus on being more human, and doing the kinds of creative, inspiring, and meaningful things even the most advanced algorithms can’t do.
£15.20
Penguin Putnam Inc The Big Fail
Book SynopsisFrom the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism?and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemicIn 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered?and over a million died?in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning economists overlooked devastating trade-offs; and elites escaped to isolated retreats, unaffected by and even profiting from the pandemic.Why and how did America, in a catastrophically enormous failure, become the world leader in COVID deaths? In this page-turning economic, political, and financial history, veteran journalists Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera offer fresh and provocative answers. With laser-sharp analysis and deep sourcing, they investigate both what really happened when governments ran out of PPE due to snarled supply chains and the shock to the financial system when the world''s biggest economy stumbled. They zero in on the effectiveness of wildly polarized approaches, from governor Andrew Cuomo''s lockdowns to governor Ron DeSantis''s insistence on keeping Florida open under the guidance of scientist Jay Bhattacharya. And they trace why thousands diedin hollowed-out hospital systems and nursing homes run byprivate equity firmsto ?maximize shareholder value.In the tradition of the authors? previous landmark exposés, The Big Fail is an expansive, insightful account on what the pandemic did to the economy and how American capitalism has jumped the rails?and is essential reading to understand where we?re going next.
£24.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Post Corona From Crisis to Opportunity
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestseller! Few are better positioned to illuminate the vagaries of this transformation than Galloway, a tech entrepreneur, author and professor at New York University’s Stern School. In brisk prose and catchy illustrations, he vividly demonstrates how the largest technology companies turned the crisis of the pandemic into the market-share-grabbing opportunity of a lifetime. --The New York Times As good an analysis as you could wish to read. --The Financial TimesFrom bestselling author and NYU Business School professor Scott Galloway comes a keenly insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic worldThe COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask wearers and the mask haters. Some businesses--like home exercise company Peloton, vi
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Penguin Putnam Inc Sold Out
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Penguin Putnam Inc Adrift
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£28.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Capitalist Imperative
Book SynopsisWhy do cities, regions and nations experience periods of pronounced growth and decline? Why have the world''s centres of economic activity been continually reshuffled as the industrial revolution has spread to new parts of the globe? This book demonstrates that under capitalism, the process central to growth is geographical industrialization, and that the creation and use of territory is fundamental to economic development. In doing so, they make new contributions to the study of growth theory, industrial economics, technological change, industrial organization, labour market, urban and regional development, and theoretical human geography. Beginning with the economics of disequilibrium growth, the authors reveal the technological, organizational and political foundations of industrialization, and conclude by showing that the territorial forms that industry takes are central to the shape and survival of capitalism itself.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Inconstant Geography of Capitalism ; Chapter 2: Industrialization as Disequilibrium Growth ; Chapter 3: How Industries Produce Regions ; Chapter 4: Technological Change and Geographical Industrialization ; Chapter 5: The Territorial Organization of Production; Chapter 6: Labour - The Politics of Place and Workplace ; Chapter 7: The Process of Territorial Development ; Chapter 8: Economy, Society, Territory.
£33.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geopolitics and the PostColonial
Book SynopsisWith a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, the book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective. A novel approach to understanding US-Third World relations. Critically considers the genesis of US power. Interweaves ideas and events, interventions and representations. Highlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals. Trade Review"...stimulating, and replete with insights....no serious scholar of international relations can afford to miss it." Political Science Quarterly "This book’s innovations include its systematic engagement with the works of Third World intellectuals, its rigorous conceptualization of Euro-Americanism, and a creative recovery of Gramscian Marxism; these features help to ground a very powerful framework for the post-colonial. This book is the product of a tremendous intellectual maturity and sophistication … the author engages and reworks, with great mastery and success, the best theories of our time." Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina "This singular text challenges the “common sense” view of contemporary world power in an eminently sensible and sensitive manner. Written with admirable and unfashionable clarity … it provides a constantly suggestive tour d'horizon of the state of global geopolitics at the start of the millennium." James Dunkerley, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London "This book is part of the best tradition of research which, particularly since the 1990s, has been showing that a proper understanding of the world is necessarily much larger than a Western understanding of the world … Slater formulates a new critical theory that is adequate to the realities and possibilities created by the global times in which we live, and fully capable of accounting for the metamorphoses of the growing inequalities between North and South." Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra and University of Wisconsin-Madison "... the book has many positive aspects to be stressed. It is especially strong on the history and present condition of American imperial hegemony and clearly draws on a wide and detailed knowledge of the Latin American scene." Progress in Deveopment Studies “Geopolitics and the Post-Colonial is a rich contribution to the analysis of the imperialist geopolitics of North-South relations inherent in contemporary processes of political and economic globalization.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers "It is specifically the reflexive and open-minded way in which Slater analyses post-colonial thinking in relation to geopolitics that makes this a very inspiring work." Development and Change "Provoking, timely and delivered with panache.” Gareth A. Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science “A valuable addition to the study of Chilean politics after authoritarian rule, analyzing some of the most important factors explaining the trajectory from a brutal military dictatorship to a stable and rather prosperous democratic regime." Javier A. Couso, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Conceptual and Historical Issues. 1 For a Post-Colonial Geopolitics. 2 Emerging Empire and the Civilizing Powers of Intervention. Part II: Waves of Western Theory. 3 Modernizing the Other and the Three Worlds of Development. 4 The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and the Expansion of Western Power. Part III: Archipelagos of Critical Thinking. 5 Societies of Insurgent Theory: the Dependentistas Write Back. 6 Exploring Other Zones of Difference: from the post-modern to the post-colonial. Part IV: Geopolitics in a Globalizing World. 7 Post-Colonial Questions for Global Times. 8 'Another World is Possible' - on social movements, the Zapatistas and the dynamics of 'globalization from below'. 9 Conclusions: Beyond the Imperiality of Knowledge. Notes. References. Index.
£97.16
Princeton University Press Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
Book SynopsisA collection of essays providing evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is weak and demonstrates that targeted educational and economic reforms can reduce the income gap and improve the country's aggregate productivity and economic well-being.Trade Review"A distinguished group of editors has compiled this collection of 12 papers by some of the most notable scholars in the field... This book raises important issues about economic inequality, returns to human capital investment, and the role of government."--Choice "This is an enlightening and provocative book of essays that should be examined by anyone with an interest in current hypotheses and evidence on the determinants of inequality in America."--George Farkas, Contemporary Sociology "A useful collection of empirical studies, models, and discussion that, taken together, make a case for a sharp change in American policy towards more aggressive efforts to reduce inequality... The breadth and depth of these essays and the strong presentations of evidence and argument make them of interest even to those least supportive of the views advanced here."--John D. Owen, Economics of Education Review "With technical papers from a range of disciplines, the volume makes fairly solid reading, but it presents some fascinating ideas and results which are broadly accessible."--Danny Yee, Danny ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction By Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf Pt. 1. Merit, Reward, and Opportunity 1. Merit and Justice By Amartya Sen 2. Equality of Opportunity By John E. Roemer Pt. 2. The Causes and Consequences of "Intelligence" 3. IQ Trends over Time: Intelligence, Race, and Meritocracy By James R. Flynn 4. Genes, Culture, and Inequality By Marcus W. Feldman, Sarah R. Otto, Freddy B. Christiansen Pt. 3. Schooling and Economic Opportunity 5. Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America By Orley Ashenfelter, Cecilia Rouse 6. Does Schooling Raise Earnings by Making People Smarter? By Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis 7. A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve: Intelligence, Family Background, and Schooling By Sanders Korenman, Christopher Winship 8. Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy By Robert M. Hauser, John Robert Warren, Min-Hsiung Huang Contributors: "et al." 9. Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education By John Cawley, James Heckman, Lance Lochner Contributors: "et al." Pt. 4. Policy Options 10. Inequality and Race: Models and Policy By Shelly J. Lundberg, Richard Startz 11. Conceptual Problems in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws By Glenn Loury 12. Meritocracy, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie By Roland Benabou Index
£60.00
Princeton University Press Cultures Merging A Historical and Economic
Book SynopsisLooks at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. This book questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. It also examines contemporary globalization.Trade Review"Jones's scholarship is enormous, and the book is full of fascinating facts... He writes clearly with an absence of jargon, which makes the book accessible to a wide audience. Economists could certainly benefit from the way it opens up a wider set of perspectives. And ... there is more than enough interesting material to make the book worthwhile for the more general reader."--Paul Ormerod, Times Higher Education Supplement "Jones' book is important because it links our economic past and future with our ideas about culture."--Mark Trahant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An accessible, illuminating, and inspiring book."--Avner Greif, EH.net "Eric Jones is intelligent, literate, and eclectic. His comments range over many fields besides economic history, and he writes in a sprightly manner. The book is fun to read, and it engages one of the big issues of economic history: the role of culture in economic affairs."--Peter Temin, Economic History Review "Eric L. Jones has written an interesting and well-argued critique of two positions that he believes are well entrenched in the economic history literature. The first, which he terms 'cultural nullity', is widely held by economists and assigns no or at best a trivial role to culture in explaining economic outcomes. Second, Jones criticizes those (often historians) who think of a 'cultural fixity', in which an unchanging culture dominates every other aspect of life... Jones marshals an impressive and at times amusing range of illustrations of the fluidity of cultures."--Harold James, International History Review "Cultures Merging is a remarkable historical tour de force presenting a wealth of argument to indicate the role of economic forces in the modification of culture and vice versa."--Arthur Webb, Journal of Cultural Economics "Jones ... makes a compelling argument for the special place of literature in understanding these dialectics of poverty."--John Marsh, The Minnesota Review "Jones writes in a vivid, attractive manner, expressing sometimes trenchant arguments on specific topics... His book has a syncretic and eclectic feel, and conveys a sense of its author as someone who, having established his standing in his previous, more focused work, now revels in his ability to survey that of another generation or two of scholars, and to tell his readers which leads to follow and which to consider useless."--Gianfranco Poggi, SociologicaTable of ContentsPreface vii PART I CULTURAL ANALYSIS Chapter 1: The Revival of Cultural Explanation 3 Chapter 2: Cultures Fluid and Sticky 31 Chapter 3: Culture as Mediocrity 52 Chapter 4: The Means of Merging 85 Chapter 5: Institutions as Cryptogams 108 PART II CULTURAL COMMENTARY Chapter 6: Cultures of Immigration 135 Chapter 7: East Asia's Experience 161 Chapter 8: Economic Changes, Cultural Responses 194 Chapter 9: Cultural Protection 223 PART III CONCLUSION Chapter 10: Culture as Reciprocity 255 Bibliography 273 Index 291
£49.30
Princeton University Press Entrepreneurship Innovation and the Growth
Book SynopsisHow much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? This book brings together some of the world's leading economists to tackle this question, and their responses shed light on how free-market economies work - and what policies most encourage their growth.Trade Review"This book brings together an absolutely first-rate group of thinkers, including several Nobel Prize winners, who were invited to a 2003 conference spurred by the publication of William J. Baumol's The Free-Market Innovation Machine. These thought-provoking essays illustrate the potential of Baumol's framework to considerably advance our understanding of what drives entrepreneurship, innovation, and long-term economic growth."—Scott Stern, Northwestern University"This book's remarkable achievement is to gather some of the brightest minds in economics to discuss some of the most important issues in the field—innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth. It is particularly refreshing to see these topics addressed at a variety of levels and from a variety of research perspectives. The combination of microeconomists and macroeconomists, and even economic historians, is a rare instance of communication across the subfields of economics. This impressive book will be useful to both economics generalists and specialists."—Thomas Hellmann, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsPreface ix INTRODUCTION by Eytan Sheshinski and Robert J. Strom 1 PART I: INTRODUCTORY: THE MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS OF GROWTH Chapter 1: On Macroeconomic Models of Free-Market Innovation and Growth by Robert M. Solow 15 Chapter 2: The Macro-context of the Microeconomics of Innovation by Kenneth J. Arrow 20 PART II: INSTITUTIONAL BASES FOR CAPITALIST GROWTH Introduction and Comments by Michael M. Weinstein 31 Chapter 3: Institutional Bases for Capitalist Growth by Douglass C. North 35 Chapter 4: Capitalism and Economic Liberty: The Political Foundations of Economic Growth by Barry R. Weingast 48 PART III: INNOVATION IN MODERN CORPORATIONS Introduction and Comments by Ying Lowrey 73 Chapter 5: Endogenous Forces in Twentieth-Century America by Nathan Rosenberg 80 Chapter 6: Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Network Structure on Rates of Innovation by Melissa A. Schilling and Corey Phelps 100 PART IV: THE CONTINUING ROLE OF INDEPENDENT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS Introduction and Comments by Sylvia Nasar 135 Chapter 7: The Small Entrepreneur by Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau 140 Chapter 8: Toward Analysis of Capitalism's Unparalleled Growth: Sources and Mechanism by William J. Baumol 158 PART V: DISSEMINATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE PATENT SYSTEM Introduction and Comments by Edward N. Wolff 181 Chapter 9: Patents, Licensing, and Entrepreneurship: Effectuating Innovation in Multi-invention Contexts by Deepak Somaya and David J. Teece 185 Chapter 10: The Market for Technology and the Organization of Invention in U.S. History by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 213 PART VI: INNOVATION AND TRADE Introduction and Comments by Yochanan Shachmurove 247 Chapter 11: Innovation and Its Effects on International Trade by Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol 261 Chapter 12: Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel S. Kortum 276 PART VII: FINANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE FREE-MARKET ECONOMY Introduction and Comments by Alan S. Blinder 303 Chapter 13: Radical Financial Innovation by Robert J. Shiller 306 Chapter 14: Finance and Innovation by Burton G. Malkiel 324 PART VIII: TOWARD SOME LESSONS Introduction and Comments by Robert J. Strom 339 Chapter 15: The Economic Performance of Nations: Prosperity Depends on Dynamism, Dynamism on Institutions by Edmund S. Phelps 342 Chapter 16: Pharmaceutical Patenting in Developing Countries and R&D by Eytan Sheshinski 357 Contributors 367 Index 369
£87.20
Princeton University Press Immigrants
Book SynopsisImmigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling firsthand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis, and a broad understanding of what's at stake politically and culturally, Immigrants is a passionate but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can'Trade ReviewShortlisted for the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award "Mr. Legrain performs an invaluable service; he makes a good case for the unpopular cause of free flows of people. The book is a superb combination of direct reportage with detailed analysis of the evidence."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "Mr. Legrain has assembled powerful evidence to undermine the economic arguments against immigration."--Economist "In all important respects Legrain is right on target. In the context of the fearful chatter that surrounds the subject, sense as good as this needs cherishing."--Guardian "Immigrants boldly challenges the conventional thinking at every turn. [Legrain] makes a powerful case that free movement of people is just as beneficial as the free movement of goods and capital. The book is carefully written; the argumentation is never slapdash stuff of the xenophobes. [A]n extraordinary book, making the best case I have ever read for an open-border policy."--George C. Leef, Regulation MagazineTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv Introduction: MIGRATION ISN'T JUST FOR THE BIRDS 1 It's time for fresh thinking about immigration Chapter 1: WAR ON OUR BORDERS 23 The hidden costs of immigration controls Chapter 2: BORDER CROSSING 44 How migrants got to where they are now Chapter 3: WHY WE NEED THE HUDDLED MASSES 61 The case for low-skilled migration Chapter 4: THE GLOBAL TALENT CONTEST 89 The pros and cons of high-skilled migration Chapter 5: COSMOPOLITAN AND RICH 117 The economic benefits of diversity Chapter 6: STEALING OUR JOBS? 133 Do immigrants displace local workers? Chapter 7: SNOUTS IN OUR TROUGH? 144 Are immigrants a burden on the welfare state? Chapter 8: OUR HEROES' 161 How migration helps poor countries Chapter 9: BRAIN DRAIN OR BRAIN GAIN? 179 The costs and benefits of skilled emigration Chapter 10: IT NEEDN'T BE FOREVER 198 The case for temporary migration Chapter 11: ALIEN NATION? 207 Does immigration threaten national identity? Chapter 12: HUNTINGTON AND HISPANICS 226 Is Latino immigration splitting America in two? Chapter 13: STRANGER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? 245 Does immigration threaten social solidarity? Chapter 14: LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER 258 How to integrate immigrants into society Chapter 15: ILLIBERAL ISLAM? 289 Do Muslim immigrants threaten our security and our way of life? Chapter 16: OPEN BORDERS 318 Let them in NOTES 334 INDEX 360
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Dollar Trap
Book SynopsisThe U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as the main reserve currency. Yet, as The Dollar Trap poweTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management, Association of American Publishers One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2014, chosen by Martin Wolf One of China Business News' Financial Books of the Year for 2014 "Thoughtful."--Jeff Sommer, New York Times "[A] surprising argument... [L]ucid."--David Wessel, Wall Street Journal "Richly detailed study of global finances, examining how and why the dollar became the favored currency of international trade."--Kirkus "To understand how the world of international finance works, what the agendas are and what is at stake, this work is indispensable."--Henny Sender, Financial Times "In his authoritative new book on the dollar, Eswar Prasad ... argues that China and other foreign countries that own around half the outstanding US federal government debt are trapped in a risky game where the US may be tempted to renege on its debt obligations by printing more dollars."--John Plender, Financial Times "A lively and compelling analysis on currency wars in the wake of the financial crisis--and the likely persistence of the U.S. dollar as the world's pre-eminent currency."--Harold James, Central Banking JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface to the Paperback Edition xi Preface xvii PART ONE Setting the Stage 1. Prologue 3 2. What Is So Special about the Dollar? 11 PART TWO Building Blocks 3. The Paradox of Uphill Capital Flows 31 4. Emerging Markets Get Religion 47 5. The Quest for Safety 63 6. A Trillion Dollar Con Game? 89 PART THREE Inadequate Institutions 7. Currency Wars 125 8. Seeking a Truce on Currency Wars 158 9. It Takes Twenty to Tango 171 10. The Siren Song of Capital Controls 188 11. Safety Nets with Gaping Holes 201 PART FOUR Currency Competition 12. Is the Renminbi Ready for Prime Time? 229 13. Other Contenders Nipping at the Dollar's Heels 262 14. Could the Dollar Hit a Tipping Point and Sink? 283 15. Ultimate Paradox: Fragility Breeds Stability 299 Appendix 309 Notes 317 References 375 Acknowledgments 393 Index 395
£19.80
Princeton University Press Poverty Traps
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The collection is a thought-provoking book that provides a comprehensive examination of persistent poverty in both the United States and developing counties... Poverty Traps should be read by any economist, social scientist, policymaker, or anyone else interested in the study of persistent poverty."--William Levernier, Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff 1 Part One: Threshold Effects 15 Chapter 1: The Theory of Poverty Traps What Have We Learned? by Costas Azariadis 17 Part Two: by Institutions 41 Chapter 2: The Persistence of Poverty in the Americas The Role of Institutions by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 43 Chapter 3: Parasites by Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, and Ragnar Torvik 79 Chapter 4: The Kin System as a Poverty Trap? byKarla Hoff and Arijit Sen 95 Chapter 5: Institutional Poverty Traps by Samuel Bowles 116 Part Three: Neighborhood Effects 139 Chapter 6: Groups, Social Influences, and Inequality by Steven N. Durlauf 141 Chapter 7: Durable Inequality Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods by Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff 176 Chapter 8: Spatial Concentration and Social Stratification Does the Clustering of Disadvantage "Beget " Bad Outcomes?? by Michael E. Sobel 204 Contributors 231 Index 233
£21.25
Princeton University Press Cultures Merging A Historical and Economic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jones's scholarship is enormous, and the book is full of fascinating facts... He writes clearly with an absence of jargon, which makes the book accessible to a wide audience. Economists could certainly benefit from the way it opens up a wider set of perspectives. And ... there is more than enough interesting material to make the book worthwhile for the more general reader."--Paul Ormerod, Times Higher Education Supplement "Jones' book is important because it links our economic past and future with our ideas about culture."--Mark Trahant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer "An accessible, illuminating, and inspiring book."--Avner Greif, EH.net "Eric Jones is intelligent, literate, and eclectic. His comments range over many fields besides economic history, and he writes in a sprightly manner. The book is fun to read, and it engages one of the big issues of economic history: the role of culture in economic affairs."--Peter Temin, Economic History Review "Eric L. Jones has written an interesting and well-argued critique of two positions that he believes are well entrenched in the economic history literature. The first, which he terms 'cultural nullity', is widely held by economists and assigns no or at best a trivial role to culture in explaining economic outcomes. Second, Jones criticizes those (often historians) who think of a 'cultural fixity', in which an unchanging culture dominates every other aspect of life... Jones marshals an impressive and at times amusing range of illustrations of the fluidity of cultures."--Harold James, International History Review "Cultures Merging is a remarkable historical tour de force presenting a wealth of argument to indicate the role of economic forces in the modification of culture and vice versa."--Arthur Webb, Journal of Cultural Economics "Jones ... makes a compelling argument for the special place of literature in understanding these dialectics of poverty."--John Marsh, The Minnesota Review "Jones writes in a vivid, attractive manner, expressing sometimes trenchant arguments on specific topics... His book has a syncretic and eclectic feel, and conveys a sense of its author as someone who, having established his standing in his previous, more focused work, now revels in his ability to survey that of another generation or two of scholars, and to tell his readers which leads to follow and which to consider useless."--Gianfranco Poggi, SociologicaTable of ContentsPreface vii PART I CULTURAL ANALYSIS Chapter 1: The Revival of Cultural Explanation 3 Chapter 2: Cultures Fluid and Sticky 31 Chapter 3: Culture as Mediocrity 52 Chapter 4: The Means of Merging 85 Chapter 5: Institutions as Cryptogams 108 PART II CULTURAL COMMENTARY Chapter 6: Cultures of Immigration 135 Chapter 7: East Asia's Experience 161 Chapter 8: Economic Changes, Cultural Responses 194 Chapter 9: Cultural Protection 223 PART III CONCLUSION Chapter 10: Culture as Reciprocity 255 Bibliography 273 Index 291
£25.50
Princeton University Press The Culture of Contentment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Thought-provoking."--Kirkus
£18.00
Princeton University Press The Rise and Fall of American Growth The U.S.
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016 One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Economics Books of 2016 One of Foreign Affairs' Editors' Picks 2016 One of The Economist's Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016 One of The Wall Street Journal's "The 20 Books That Defined Our Year" 2016 One of Bloomberg View's "Five Books to Change Conservatives' Minds," chosen by Cass Sunstein #36 on Bloomberg's "50 Most Influential" List One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in History One of the Strategy+Business Best Business Books 2016 in Economy One of the Washington Post's Best Economics Books 2016 Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of The NewYorker.com Page-Turner blog's "The Books We Loved in 2016" Longlisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University "The Rise and Fall of American Growth... is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year."--Rana Foroohar, Time "This is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis... [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past."--Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review "[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages."--Neil Irwin, New York Times "Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries... The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period... If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordon's landmark study."--William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books "Mr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis."--Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished."--Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal "A masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in today's political economy."--Kirkus "Normally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordon's conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice."--Matthew Yglesias, Vox "Magnificent... Gordon presents his case... with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data... Even if history changes direction... this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism."--Economist "Every presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordon's list is a good place to start."--David Wessel, WSJ.com's Think Tank blog "[W]hat may be the year's most important book on economics has already been published... What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits."--Robert Samuelson, Washington Post "Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an extraordinary work of economic scholarship... Moreover, this is one of the rare economics books that is on the one hand deeply analytical ... And on the other a pleasure to read... [A] landmark work."--Lawrence Summers, Prospect "Ambitious... The hefty tome, minutely detailed yet dauntingly broad in scope, offers a lively portrayal of the evolution of American living standards since the Civil War."--Eduardo Porter, New York Times "Two years ago a huge book on economics took the world by storm. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... became a surprise bestseller... Robert Gordon's tome on American economic growth stretches to 768 pages and its central message is arguably more important."--David Smith, Sunday Times "A landmark new book."--Gavin Kelly, The Guardian "Looking ahead, judging presidents by policies rather than outcomes may be all the more important. In a new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the economist Robert Gordon argues that we are in the midst of an era of meager technological change. Yes, we now have smartphones and Twitter, but previous generations introduced electric lighting, indoor plumbing and the internal combustion engine. In Mr. Gordon's view, technological change is just not what it used to be, and we had better get used to slower growth in productivity and incomes."--N. Gregory Mankiw, New York Times "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is likely to be the most interesting and important economics book of the year. It provides a splendid analytic take on the potency of past economic growth, which transformed the world from the end of the nineteenth century onward... Gordon's book serves as a powerful reminder that the U.S. economy really has gone through a protracted slowdown and that this decline has been caused by the stagnation in technological progress."--Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs "[A]n important new book."--Martin Ford, Huffington Post "[A] lightning bolt of a new book."--Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect "So powerful and intriguing are the facts and arguments marshaled by Gordon that even informed critics who think he is wrong recommend that readers plow through his The Rise and Fall of American Growth, with its 60 graphics and 64 tables spread over more than 700 pages. You don't need to be an economist to appreciate or understand the book. His thesis is straightforward."--David Cay Johnston, Al Jazeera America.com "What is novel about Gordon's approach to this problem is that he doesn't try to find political causes for our economic woes... [E]xhaustive and sweeping in scope, and novel in its thinking about growth."--Chris Matthews, Fortune.com "[A] fascinating new book."--Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe "One of the most important books of recent years... Powerful and impressive."--Cass R. Sunstein, Bloomberg View "This is a tremendous, sobering piece of research, which does a lot to explain the febrile, nervous state of modern Western democracies."--Marcus Tanner, The Independent "A new book by economist Robert Gordon--The Rise and Fall of American Growth--is causing quite a stir."--City A.M. "If he's right, and one links this with growing income inequality, our would-be leaders will have difficulty in making the case for achieving the American dream through steady incremental progress achieved through collaboration and political compromise."--Michael Hoffmann, Desert Sun "Robert Gordon's new book on productivity in the U.S. economy, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is masterful... Gordon skillfully lays out myriad information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal."--Edward Lotterman, St. Paul Pioneer Press "[I]mpressive."--Peter Martin, Sydney Morning Herald "In his unsettling new book, Gordon, who teaches at Northwestern, weighs in on the role of technology in the U.S. over the past century-and-a-half. He does so forcefully, so forcefully, in fact, as to wipe the smiles off the faces of most techno-optimists, myself included."--Peter A. Coclanis, Charlotte Observer "[A] thoughtful new book."--David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is this year's equivalent to Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century: an essential read for all economists, who are unanimously floored by its boldness and scope even if they don't agree with its conclusions."--Adam Davidson, New York Times Magazine "Gordon makes a compelling case for why the era of fast growth in America ended around 1970 and will not return in the foreseeable future, if ever."--Dick Meyer, DecodeDC "Gordon argues that we are not going to get another surge soon and that there are several headwinds that are going to work against faster growth, including income inequality, education as a differentiator and not an equalizer, the debt overhang, and demography."--John Mason, TheStreet.com "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] challenges every political claim, and every pundit's remedy, regarding how to get the lackluster American economy to boom again in the decades ahead, as it once did a half-century or more ago... [The book] represents the culmination of Gordon's many years of investigation into this key economic question of our age, namely: 'Why is it that the American economy has never been able to return to the happy boom years of our grandparents' time?' Why is it that, decade after decade, administration after administration, annualized productivity growth has only been about one-half to one-third that of the age of Truman and Eisenhower?"--Paul Kennedy, Tribune Content Agency "[M]asterful... Gordon skillfully lays out information about the history and trends of productivity. One can learn a great deal... The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a rare example of a work with solid economics that can be understood, and enjoyed, by nearly any lay person."--Ed Lotterman, Idaho Statesman "As an economic historian, Gordon is beyond reproach."--Edward Luce, Financial Times "Provocative."--Associated Press "The Rise and Fall of American Growth, is a deep dive into the past with an eye to the future... [The book] is part of a fascinating debate about future prospects for the American economy."--Knowledge@Wharton "[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] has set the wonky world of economics aflame."--Ryan Craig, TechCrunch "Magisterial."--John Kay, Financial Times "[A] contentious new book."--Margaret Wente, The Globe & Mail "[A] fabulous new book... [I]mpressive."--Dr. Mike Walden, Morganton News Herald "Northwestern Bob Gordon's new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, offers a deeper explanation for the underlying mechanics behind slowed economic growth."--Jon Hartley, Forbes.com "So much of what the presidential candidates and the American people want to accomplish over the next four years and beyond depends on the U.S. economy growing faster, and more inclusively, than it has in recent years. This year's hot economics book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by one of America's most distinguished macroeconomists, Robert Gordon, casts a pall on whether this is possible, arguing that the U.S. had a golden century of increasing innovation from roughly 1870 to 1970, but this was unique."--Robert Litan, Fortune.com "Gordon's book offers the definitive account of how the many technological innovations between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved life in the United States."--Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution's Defining Ideas blog "[M]agiserial... The Northwestern University professor lays out the case that the productivity miracle underlying the American way of life was largely a one-time deal."--Matt Phillips, Quartz "Robert Gordon's new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth has taken the economics world by storm this winter."--Myles Udland, Business Insider "[M]assive."--Ben Casselman, FiveThirty Eight "[G]roundbreaking."--Zeeshan Aleem, Mic "With a painstaking--and fascinating--historical analysis of American productivity, [Gordon] argues that the innovations of today pale in comparison to earlier in our history and that we might actually be entering a period of prolonged stagnation. He may very well be right."--Greg Satell, Forbes.com "[P]rovocative."--Barrie McKenna, The Globe & Mail "[I]nfluential."--Martin Neil Baily, Fortune.com "[A] stimulating book."--George Will, Washington Post "Compulsive reading."--Andrew Hilton, Financial World "Gordon is not an alarmist, far from it. His is a sober voice of concern, of caution, which needs to be heard by those in the helm in America. And a fascinating lesson for ambitious and growing countries like India."--Dr R Balashankar, Sunday Guardian "[A] fascinating convergence of green and mainstream thought."--Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay Journal "[T]his panoramic book makes good reading."--Shane Greenstein, Harvard Magazine "The book's great contribution is the tapestry it weaves of all the innovations that changed most Americans' lives beyond recognition in the century from 1870 to 1970."--Martin Sandbu, Financial Times "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is unquestionably an important book that raises fundamental questions about the United States' economy and society."--New Criterion "[A] masterpiece."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "[An] impressive book... Gordon's book provides sufficient ammunition to show the colossal problems facing capitalism."--Socialism Today "Rich with detailed information, meticulous observations, and even anecdotes and stories ... a fascinating read."--Ricardo F. Levi, Corriere della Sera "The Rise and Fall of American Growth is essential reading for anyone interested in economics."--Choice "In an important new book, economist Robert Gordon makes the case for pessimism. He believes that technologies like smartphones, robots, and artificial intelligence aren't going to have the kind of big impact on the economy that earlier inventions--like the internal combustion engine and electricity--did."--Timothy B. Lee, Vox "Robert Gordon has written an engaging economic-based history of America... Gordon is to be commended for helping to stimulate a national debate on the current low level of economic productivity."--Allan Hauer, Innovation: The Journal of Technology & Commercialization "If you want to see how far we have come and how tough life was a century and a half ago, read Gordon's book."--David R. Henderson, Regulation "A fantastic read."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes "The book is well written, and one can only be in awe of Gordon's mastery of the factual history of the American standard of living."--Robert A. Margo, EH.net "Monumental."--John Cassidy, NewYorker.com "Zeitgeist-defining."--Myles Udland, Business Insider "[A] magisterial treatise."--Nick Gillespie, Reason.com "[A]n essential read for anyone interested not only in US economic history but also American economic prospects ... a tremendous achievement."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "A comprehensive history of American economic growth."--Eric Rauchway, American Prospect "Professor Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is a magisterial volume that will benefit any serious student of economics, demographics or history."--Wendell Cox, New Geography "A wonderful new book."--Jeff Sachs, Boston Globe "The most important economics book of 2016."--Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune "This spectacular history traces the rise and the plateau of the American economy since industrialization."--Jay Weiser, Weekly Standard "[A] landmark book... An impressive history of how the American people progressed in their standards of living and productivity in the 'golden century' of 1870-1970."--Stephen M. Millett, Strategy & Leadership "Gordon's encyclopedic The Rise and Fall of American Growth, a new history of modern U.S. economic life, [is] perhaps the best yet written."--Jonathan Levy, Dissent "One of our greatest economic historians... Gordon's exhaustive research program ... has knocked me back on my intellectual heels."--J. Bradford DeLong, Strategy + Business "This is the most important book on economics in many years."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth set out a thesis of technological diminishing returns that does much to explain an age of economic pessimism."--Lorien Kite, Financial Times "In the course of Gordon's book, a vivid picture of everyday life as our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents lived it emerges... What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did. Reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth, I thought a lot about my grandparents. Gordon's book has made their lives more real to me."--Joshua Rothman, NewYorker.com's Page-Turner blog "Magisterial... While the book has gotten attention because of its bold projection of slow growth in the future, this is actually just one small element of a magnificent and detailed presentation of how our economy has changed since 1870. Most people don't fully appreciate what life was like in the past and Gordon gives a blow-by-blow description of how people lived in America from 1870 on. In addition, he carefully explains how each new innovation was created and how its adoption changed people's lives."--Stephen Rose, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas "Gordon constructs a strong case using conventional economic principles and exacting data measurement."--Don Pittis, CBC News "Gordon's genius is to weave together economic history with the story of the technology, know-how, politic, demographics and medicine that made the astonishing progress of the US perhaps the most remarkable ever."--Sean O'Grady, The IndependentTable of ContentsPreface ix 1. Introduction: The Ascent and Descent of Growth 1 PART I. 1870-1940-THE GREAT INVENTIONS CREATE A REVOLUTION INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME 25 2. The Starting Point: Life and Work in 1870 27 3. What They Ate and Wore and Where They Bought It 62 4. The American Home: From Dark and Isolated to Bright and Networked 94 5. Motors Overtake Horses and Rail: Inventions and Incremental Improvements 129 6. From Telegraph to Talkies: Information, Communication, and Entertainment 172 7. Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Illness and Early Death 206 8. Working Conditions on the Job and at Home 247 9. Taking and Mitigating Risks: Consumer Credit, Insurance, and the Government 288 Entr'acte. The Midcentury Shift from Revolution to Evolution 319 PART II. 1940-2015-THE GOLDEN AGE AND THE EARLY WARNINGS OF SLOWER GROWTH 329 10. Fast Food, Synthetic Fibers, and Split-Level Subdivisions: The Slowing Transformation of Food, Clothing, and Housing 331 11. See the USA in Your Chevrolet or from a Plane Flying High Above 374 12. Entertainment and Communications from Milton Berle to the iPhone 409 13. Computers and the Internet from the Mainframe to Facebook 441 14. Antibiotics, CT Scans, and the Evolution of Health and Medicine 461 15. Work, Youth, and Retirement at Home and on the Job 498 Entr'acte. Toward an Understanding of Slower Growth 522 PART III. THE SOURCES OF FASTER AND SLOWER GROWTH 533 16. The Great Leap Forward from the 1920s to the 1950s: What Set of Miracles Created It? 535 17. Innovation: Can the Future Match the Great Inventions of the Past? 566 18. Inequality and the Other Headwinds: Long-Run American Economic Growth Slows to a Crawl 605 Postscript: America's Growth Achievement and the Path Ahead 641 Acknowledgments 653 Data Appendix 657 Notes 667 References 717 Credits 741 Index 745
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Princeton University Press The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France
Book SynopsisTaking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demandTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix*LIST OF CHARTS, pg. xi*PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*1. ECONOMIC GROWTH AT RISK, pg. 1*2. FRENCH FINANCES ON THE EVE OF WAR, pg. 38*3. THE SEVEN YEARS WAR, pg. 72*4. THE SEVEN YEARS WAR AND THE FRENCH ECONOMY, pg. 104*5. FINANCING THE WAR, pg. 132*6. THE DEBT, pg. 162*7. A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE, pg. 192*CONCLUSION, pg. 223*APPENDIX 1. ESTIMATING THE PRICE TREND IN FRENCH TRADE, pg. 237*APPENDIX 2. CALCULATING THE PRINCIPAL OF LIFE ANNUITY LOANS, pg. 241*MANUSCRIPT SOURCES CITED, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 249
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Princeton University Press Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut
Book SynopsisA pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously outTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*GRAPHS AND TABLES, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii*One. On Population, pg. 1*Two. On Property and Status, pg. 28*Three. The Distribution of Property in the Seventeenth Century, pg. 62*Four. The Distribution of Property in the Eighteenth Century, pg. 115*Five. The Laborers, pg. 174*Six. The Farmers, pg. 200*Seven. The Craftsmen and Professionals, pg. 241*Eight. On Traders, and a Summary, pg. 278*Nine. The Leaders, pg. 317*Ten. Conclusion, pg. 367*Bibliographical Essay, pg. 383*Index, pg. 385
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Princeton University Press The Defense of Community in Perus Central
Book SynopsisFlorencia E. Mallon examines the development of capitalism in Peru's central highlands, depicting its impact on peasant village economy and society. She shows that the region's peasantry divided into an agrarian bourgeoisie and a rural proletariat during the period under discussion, although the surviving peasant ideology, village kinship networks,Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Maps and Appendixes, pg. viii*List of Abbreviations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One. The Human Geography, pg. 15*Two. The Background of Change and Conflict, 1780-1879, pg. 42*Three. The War of the Pacific and the Problem of Internal Pacification, pg. 80*Four. The Pierola Years: A National Attempt at Modernization, pg. 125*Five. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Manufacturing Period, pg. 168*Six. The Penetration of Foreign Capital: The Industrial Period, pg. 214*Seven. Migration and the Peasant Community, pg. 247*Eight. Crisis in the Villages, pg. 268*Nine. Peasants Become Farmers: Capitalist Agriculture and the Peasant Entrepreneur, pg. 308*Conclusion. Proletarians in a Village Society: The Peasant Community Revisited, pg. 334*Appendixes, pg. 349*Glossary, pg. 353*Bibliographical Essay, pg. 359*Index, pg. 371
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Princeton University Press An Economic Spurt that Failed
Book SynopsisIn 1900 the newly appointed Austrian prime minister, Ernest von Koerber, initiated a novel program of economic development designed to solve the political and economic problems of the Habsburg Monarchy. Ambitious and ingenious as the plan was, it proved a failure, and in this book Alexander Gerschenkron assesses its career and significance for bothTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. viii*Preface, pg. ix*LECTURE ONE. The Road Before, the Moment, and its Hero, pg. 1*LECTURE TWO. The Economic Backwardness of Austria, pg. 45*LECTURE THREE. The Stumbling Block, pg. 85*LECTURE FOUR. The Retrospect, pg. 123*APPENDIX I, pg. 159*APPENDIX II, pg. 163*Index of Proper Names, pg. 167
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Princeton University Press Economic Development of Japan
Book SynopsisThe rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history. Professor Lockwood, assistant director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, lucidly describes this astonishing transformation, analyzeTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Tables, pg. xiii*1. Foundations of Industrialism: The Meiji Era, pg. 1*2. Japan's Economy in Transition, pg. 38*3. The Scale of Economic Growth, pg. 78*4. Technology, pg. 151*5. Capital, pg. 236*6. Foreign Trade and Economic Growth - I, pg. 305*7. Foreign Trade and Economic Growth - II, pg. 347*8. Structural Change: The Redirection of Demand, pg. 405*9. Structural Change: Employment of Resources, pg. 444*10. The State and Economic Enterprise, pg. 499*Supplement: Japans "New Capitalism", pg. 593*Index, pg. 669
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Princeton University Press Businessmen and Politics in the Rhineland
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. xi*List of Maps, pg. xii*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*A Note on Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations, pg. xv*1. Introduction, pg. 1*2. The Old Regime on the Rhine, pg. 23*3. From Invasion to Annexation, pg. 50*4. Businessmen, Politics, and Administration in Napoleonic France, pg. 83*5. Businessmen and the Politics of Semiofficial Institutions, pg. 134*6. The Integration of the Rhenish Business Community into France, pg. 185*7. Interregnum: Sack and the Introduction of Prussian Rule, pg. 213*8. Businessmen, Politics, and Administration in Prussia, pg. 243*9. Businessmen, Self-Administrative Institutions, and Prussian Politics, pg. 289*10. Conclusion: The Integration of the Rhenish Business Community into Prussia, pg. 334*Bibliography, pg. 357*Index, pg. 387
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Princeton University Press Peruvian Democracy under Economic Stress An
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface and Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*List of Tables, pg. xiii*CHAPTER I. The Economic and Social Setting, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. Dramatis Personae, pg. 24*CHAPTER III. The Early Belaunde Years, 1963-1966 I: The Development Effort, pg. 38*CHAPTER IV. The Early Belaunde Years, 1963-1966 II: The Financial Problem, pg. 75*CHAPTER V. Interlude: The IPC Issue and the Question of U.S. Aid, pg. 106*CHAPTER VI. Crisis, January-September 1967: Devaluation, pg. 126*CHAPTER VII. The Battle for Taxes, pg. 174*CHAPTER VIII. Sixty Days, pg. 219*CHAPTER IX. Coup, pg. 259*CHAPTER X. Epilogue, pg. 277*Statistical Appendix, pg. 285*Bibliography, pg. 291*Index, pg. 295
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Princeton University Press Structural Change in a Developing Economy
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*List of Figures, pg. xii*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. Population Growth: Investigation of a Hypothesis, pg. 8*CHAPTER III. Internal Migration: A Quantitative Study of Rural-Urban Migration in Colombia, pg. 45*CHAPTER IV. Manufacturing Development: Factor Endowments and Dualism, pg. 77*CHAPTER V. Urban Income Distribution in a Dual Economy, pg. 128*CHAPTER VI. Constraints on the Growth of the Modern Sector, pg. 157*CHAPTER VII. The Political Determinants of Colombian Foreign Exchange Policy, pg. 215*CHAPTER VIII. Future Development Policy, pg. 262*INDEX, pg. 313
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Princeton University Press Studies in the National Balance Sheet of the
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Tables, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*I. National Balance Sheets, 1945-58, pg. 41*Ia. National Balance Sheets, 1900-45, Selected Years, pg. 71*II. Finance Sector Balance Sheets, 1945-58, pg. 87*III. Sector Balance Sheets, 1945-58 and Selected Earlier Years, pg. 117*IV. Asset and Liability Tables, 1945-58 and Selected Earlier Years, pg. 239*V. Flow of Funds Through Sectors, 1946-58, pg. 345*VI. Flow of Funds Through Finance Subsectors, 1946-58, pg. 373*VII. Sector Flow of Funds, 1946-58, pg. 401*VIII. Transaction Flow of Funds, 1946-58, pg. 449
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Vintage Canada The Expendables
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Globe and Mail Favourite Book of 2020 From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world.Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is. Former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin argues that all this was foreseeable back when Canada, the United States and Mexico first started talking free trade. Growing global inequality is a problem of our own making, he says. And solving it won''t be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital
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Hamilton Books Our Cuban Colony
Book SynopsisIn Our Cuban Colony, Dr. Jenks’ details the relations between the United States and Cuba from before the Spanish-American War to the early 20th century.
£23.75
Cornell University Press Wages of Crime
Book SynopsisWages of Crime takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of modern criminal business—arms trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering, and terrorist financing.Trade ReviewThe success of the policy of controlling crime by pursuing its proceeds remains unproven, the author argues. Naylor also finds several social harms of the policy, including a distortion of law enforcement priorities, the reduction of an individual's defense against arbitrary official action when the government is allowed to pursue punitive measures while satisfying only a civil burden of proof, and the corruption engendered by the use of 'sting' operations. -- Bard R. Ferrall * Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 93:2/3 *
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University of Toronto Press Property Crime in Canada
Book SynopsisThis is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the probability of conviction are shown to have a substantial negative effect upon most kinds of property crime, with the conviction rate exhibiting the stronger influence. The generally significant inverse relationship between expected sentence length and the crime rate found by other researchers does not appear for the crimes investigated here. The results also indicate that estimating supply-of-offence functions over such aggregate categories as 'property crime' can lead to unjustified generalizations about particular types of crime.
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University of Toronto Press Etudes sur la Geographie du Canada
Book SynopsisThe publication of the series, 'Studies in Canadian Geography,' by the organizers of the 22nd International Geographical Congress, introduces to the international community of geographers a new perspective of the regional entities which form this vast countries. These studies should contribute to a better understanding among scholars, students, and the people of Canada of the geography of their land.Geographical works embracing the whole of Canada, few in number until recently, have become more numerous during the last few years. This series is original in its purpose of re-evaluating the regional geography of Canada. In the hope of discovering the dynamic trends and the processes responsible for them, the editors and authors of these volumes have sought to interpret the main characteristics and unique attributes of the various regions, rather than follow a strictly inventorial approach.In preparing this volume on Quebec, the contributors have looked at the evolution a
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University of Toronto Press Studies in Canadian Geography
Book SynopsisOntario is the most populous and most prosperous province in Canada. One-third of the nation's population lives here. They produce more than one-half of Canada's manufactured goods, one-quarter of her output from mines and forests, and one-third of the farm income. Accompanying this economic pre-eminence is a majestic primeval geography. Ontario extends through sixteen degrees of latitude and a distance of over 1600 kilometres from barren tundra along a saltwater shoreline in the north to fertile lowlands bordering freshwater lakes in the south.Productivity and size, two of the basic elements in the geography of the province, stand in contradiction to one another. The former is concentrated in a very small area with an identity and even a name of its own, 'Southern Ontario,' a portion of the province that is as overwhelming in its concentration of activity as the remainder is in its areal extent. The recognition of this distinction is a prerequisite to the further study of a
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Black Cat How Asia Works Success and Failure in the Worlds
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Stanford University Press Japanese Economic Growth
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Stanford University Press Chinas Modern Economy in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisWhy did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what extent did the rapid economic developments after 1949 depend on features unique to China and to Chinese history and on the socialist reorganization of society? This book deals with these questions.
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