Economics Books
Princeton University Press How Growth Really Happens
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Schumpeter Prize Competition, International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society""A rare breadth of economic analysis."---Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times"Best discerns and deciphers key economic trends at critical junctures in world history, and we should warmly welcome his willingness to sacrifice many of the sacred cows of economics on the altar of greater understanding."---Michael M. Rosen, Weekly Standard"A wonderful analysis of how regions catch up and shape the industrial frontier through the capability triad."---Rajah Rasiah, Asia Pacific Business Review"Best shows that overlooking production in economics has led to a major misunderstanding of how the economy grows in the real world." * Choice *
£31.50
Princeton University Press Whats the Matter with Delaware
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Economist's Best Books to Read to Understand Financial Crime""[An] entertaining exploration. . . . [Weitzman] takes up a dry topic and breathes life into it."---Alan Livsey, Financial Times"I can’t recommend this book enough."---Emma Vigeland, The Majority Report podcast
£19.80
Princeton University Press Darkness by Design
Trade Review"There are few books on the structure and governance of equity markets, and even fewer that can be enjoyed by new and experienced readers . . . Mattli’s sets a high standard."---David Murphy, Open Letters Review"Mr Mattli’s book is a delightful chronicle of the changes in the way trading-related information has flowed"---Namit Gupta, Business Standard"What Mattli shows in his study of the New York Stock Exchange is that, prior to 1970, it is quite possible to believe that capitalists did behave with a degree of honour and regard for the public good in the way they conducted business."---Don Flynn, Chartist"Mattli’s book is both lucid and short, two priceless qualities in discussing market structure."---David Morris, Financial News
£22.50
Princeton University Press Currency Power
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The ideas are clearly explained and speak directly to a broad spectrum of the existing international political economy literature." * Choice *"An important contribution to our understanding of financial statecraft. This is not only the first comprehensive treatment of currency power, it is likely to remain the best such treatment for years to come. As such, the book is necessary reading for everyone interested in whether the dollar will remain at the top of the global currency pyramid as well as why retaining that status matters."---Thomas Oatley, Cambridge Review of International Affairs
£19.00
Princeton University Press Not Working
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards""One of Prospect's Best Economics Books of 2019""[Blanchflower] makes a strong case. . . . Should Jeremy Corbyn reach 10 Downing Street, he should ring Dartmouth. I can’t think of a better choice for Bank of England Governor than David Blanchflower."---Howard Reed, Prospect Magazine"Blanchflower convincingly demonstrates that behind the boasts of high employment lies the phenomenon of widespread underemployment, with many people working less than they want to, or in jobs way beneath their qualifications."---William Keegan, The Observer"It is the most anticipated economic book."---Tom Keene, Bloomberg Surveillance"The most interesting parts of the book . . . are the ones that attempt to draw a link between underemployment, hopelessness, and support for radical right-wing politicians. . . . Blanchflower’s main message—that Western economies are in dire straits unless they take more radical measures—is a welcome corrective to the idea that low unemployment numbers indicate rude economic health. As global growth weakens and the world gets used to what looks like a protracted trade war between the U.S. and China, the question of the lack of good jobs is not going away."---Sharon Lam, Reuters Breakingviews"Wide-ranging and impeccably researched . . . . [Not Working] is an excellent critique of mainstream economics that explains why many advanced economies’ labour markets aren’t working. In doing so, it identifies a number of deep-seated flaws in modern capitalism."---Grace Blakeley, New Statesman"Challenging and much acclaimed."---Klaus F. Zimmermann, Global Labor Organization"David Blanchflower’s central theme is the crisis of underemployment and underpayment, yet his title Not Working expresses a more general failure of the global economy as well . . . . for mea culpas and an honest if demoralising insider view, read Blanchflower."---Joanna Kavenna, New Scientist"Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone demonstrates that there are still far too few decent jobs in America . . . . The policies proposed by the current crop of presidential candidates indicate that they have not fully absorbed the lessons of low incomes in America."---Jeff Madrick, Book Post"I didn’t know I was interested in labor economics, but this new book by [Blanchflower] is really good. It explores the malaise and dysfunction in the US and Europe and argued cogently that the best strategy forward is jobs, jobs, jobs. And he suggests how to get them."---Nicholas Kristof"This is a searching and incisive study of the labour market and patterns of work, especially since the financial crash of 2008. It highlights connections between employment, economic policy, politics and mental health, shedding a great deal of light on contemporary developments and building on earlier insights from Keynes and Beveridge (‘misery leads to hate’)." * Paradigm Explorer *"In this book, Blanchflower, one of the world’s most respected labour market economists, turns his attention to the long-term unemployed and disenfranchised, and explains how their plight has profound ramifications both for society and business." * People Management *"David Blanchflower delivers a stinging rebuke to his profession, saying economists’ failure to get out into the real world muddled their models."---Edward Luce, Financial Times"In his innovative analysis . . . Blanchflower doubles down on cheap money, plus revitalised infrastructure spending, to solve the problem of the 'underemployed'—people who can’t get decent full-time jobs." * Prospect *"[Blanchflower] has an impressive command of the literature . . . linking economic decline to indicators of misery."---Jane Humphries and Benjamin Schneider, Project Syndicate
£22.50
Princeton University Press Stalin Passage to Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES""Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust""The book’s strength lies . . . in its excavation of important episodes of the early years. . . . What I took from Passage to Revolution — and I agree with the idea — is that young Stalin was an angry optimist. . . . His hefty, demanding tome emphasizes the effects of changing circumstances that pivoted both Stalin and Russia into a vortex of revolution and civil war."---Robert Service, Washington Post"Joseph Stalin has been the subject of many biographical studies. . . . Ronald Grigor Suny's ‘Stalin: Passage to Revolution’ is a worthy contribution to this continuing enterprise. . . . In highly readable prose Mr. Suny . . . tells the story of the young Stalin's rise."---Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal"A Georgianist as well as a Russianist, equally comfortable with social, cultural and political history, Suny outclasses previous biographers of the young Stalin . . . It is a monumental work of history and its treatment and evocation of the young Stalin will never be bettered."---Geoffrey Roberts, Literary Review"A comprehensive, deeply researched study of one of the world’s most brutal dictators as he took the paths that would lead him to power."---Starred Review, Kirkus"This impressively researched biography provides remarkable and reliable details on the first part of Stalin’s life, along with the many fissures among the Left Communists. An important accomplishment. " * Library Journal, starred review *"Suny, using an abundance of newly available archival material, though there was no secret diary or introspective documents, provides an extraordinary telling, a detailed account, well written and engrossing, of the obscure and multiple layers of experience in Stalin's early life: church school, seminary, outlaw, exile, prison, attraction to Marxism."---Michael Curtis, American Thinker"He [Suny] is a lucid writer and a perspicacious scholar."---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement"The overriding merit of this book is that it takes Stalin seriously. It explains his life and development without feeling the need to impose a value judgement on the reader on every page."---Andrew Murray, Morning Star"Ronald Grigor Suny has written a massive, extensively researched biography of Josef Stalin’s early years—from his childhood days in Gori, Georgia, to the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917."---Francis P. Sempa, New York Journal of Books"Ronald Grigor Suny has created a detailed and unbiased biography of the first half of Joseph Stalin’s life. . . . one of the best on its subject."---Maria Timofeeva, International Journal of Military History and Historiography IJMH"This is Suny’s magnum opus, the product of decades of scholarly research."---Duncan Bowie, Chartist
£29.75
Princeton University Press The Central Asian Economies in the TwentyFirst
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A succinct elaboration of core ideas and a complex web of insightful underpinnings. It is a valuable and timely research."---Gouranga Gopal Das, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature"The book is a thought-provoking study analysing the complicated relationship between history, politics, and economics. . . . Pomfret provides country-specific analyses with enough detail, which can also serve as a springboard for students who would like to specialise in the Central Asia region to conduct further in-depth academic research."---Özge Söylemez, Rest Journal
£37.80
Princeton University Press A Crisis of Beliefs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2018 (Cass Sunstein)""One of Barron's Book Picks from Industry Leaders in 2018 (Robert Shiller)""There is evidence from behavioral economics that people are not entirely logical, and do not actually rely fully on logic or standard statistical techniques. This behavioral economic perspective is embraced by Nicola Gennaioli of Bocconi University and Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University in their remarkable new book, A Crisis of Beliefs."---Robert J. Shiller, New York Times"Economists are at last catching up with the seminal work of the late Hyman Minsky. In a book written for academics, but of wider relevance, the authors conclude that, first, investors make mistakes; second, those mistakes are systematic, predictable and incompatible with the view, that expectations are 'rational'; and, third, a new perspective, called 'diagnostic expectations', rooted in human psychology, does a good job of explaining these mistakes. Moreover, they argue, surveys indicate when expectations are becoming riskily euphoric and so should help predict crises."---Martin Wolf, Financial Times"An ‘as smart as you would expect’ take on the hypothesis that investor over-extrapolation of recent price trends can cause financial crises, including our recent financial crisis."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"Something is wrong with the economics profession if events like those of 2008 do not change its thinking. Those wanting to be in the vanguard of the new thinking should be reading A Crisis of Beliefs."---Lawrence Summers, WashingtonPost.com's Wonkblog"A decade after the financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, economists are still grappling with its nature and significance. An important recent contribution is A Crisis of Beliefs. . . . They make a convincing case for taking seriously the evidence provided by surveys and anecdotes that characterize the beliefs held at the time by households, investors, and policy makers."---Arnold Kling, EconLib"For a decade now, people have been looking for a silver lining to the disasters of 2008-2018, hoping that this period will bring about a more productive integration of finance, behavioral economics, and macroeconomic orthodoxy. So far, they have been searching in vain. But with the publication of A Crisis of Beliefs, there is hope yet."---J. Bradford Delong, Project Syndicate"What caused the financial crisis of 2008? What’s likely to cause future crises? Gennaioli and Shleifer offer an original, compelling and intriguing answer: investor psychology. . . . Gennaioli and Shleifer offer a parsimonious account of boom-bust cycles — one that relies mostly on what goes on in people’s minds."---Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg"A rich, elaborate and ambitious book."---Simone Raudino, The European Legacy
£22.50
Princeton University Press Accidental Feminism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Neoliberal Resilience
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Alice Amsden Book Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics""Honorable Mention for the IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association""[Madariaga] creatively combines qualitative and quantitative data and methods."---Nicolás M. Somma, Latin American Research Review
£40.50
Princeton University Press Microeconomics for Managers 2nd Edition
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£55.10
Princeton University Press Failing in the Field
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Using a rich set of examples, Failing in the Field describes failures that occur because the design or implementation of a research study does not yield data that can answer the questions it was intended to. By showing that mistakes in research design can be systematic, this book could benefit many students before they embark on their own studies. It was a pleasure to read.”—Karla Hoff, World Bank“Highly recommended.”—Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
£19.00
Princeton University Press The Genome Factor What the Social Genomics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association"
£19.00
Princeton University Press Blood Powder and Residue
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Through her personal experience over 18 months observing forensic scientists in a metropolitan crime lab, sociologist Bechky introduces readers to the intricacies of a high-stakes job that can change the outcome of some of the most important court cases." * Discover Magazine *"The title is catchy, the cover provocative, but for readers seeking the standard sortie into the inner workings of a forensic lab, Beth A. Bechky’s book offers something quite different — a live, human angle. . . . Bechky’s portrait of the daily conflict faced by crime lab workers should prove enlightening to outsiders. . . . The writing is crisp and jargon-free, and the text includes many interesting anecdotes. . . . this account of a fascinating work world manages to be both scholarly and engaging."---Kathy Reichs, New York Times Book Review"Illuminating."---Marc Landas, Scientific Inquirer"Introduces readers to the ways in which real-life crime-lab personnel solve crimes. Bechky is not a screenwriter. But, she’s a darned good ethnographer."---Aaron Howard, Jewish Herald-Voice
£22.50
Princeton University Press Gangsters and Other Statesmen
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society""By crossing disciplines and borders, Mandić successfully carries out an act of political alchemy, demonstrating how the grubby ‘gangsters’ of today’s separatist movements may well be the glorious governors of tomorrow. His work will be of interest to a variety of scholars and undoubtedly paves the way for all manner of future analyses across the social sciences."---Alessandro Ford, LSE Review of Books"Gangsters and Other States[sic]men takes a rigorous academic approach to a subject too often mired in stereotype."---Kieran Pender, Times Literary Supplement
£90.00
Princeton University Press Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Carles Boix] helps us see change in a comparative and historical context."---Michael Cornfield, The Guardian"Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads . . . takes a political science perspective on . . . deep trends in technology . . . Coming from a different perspective, Boix provides new-to-me insights, and particularly about similarities between the successive technological revolutions."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"The book initiates discussion on an important, underresearched and relevant subject. Lucidly written, it is well-informed and rich with tables and figures. Readers of political economy, social and economic history, managementand business studies would benefit from this book."---Sujay Ghosh, Democratization
£31.50
Princeton University Press Under the Cover The Creation Production and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association""Under the Cover is well-plotted, making use of the kind of narrative device--a three-act structure, revealing details, even cliff-hangers--one might find in an actual novel, all of which is underpinned by insightful observations of the many writers, agents, editors, publishers, booksellers, readers and others Childress studies. . . . An engaging story about the interface of the word and the world."---Megan Marz, Times Literary Supplement"Written with great love, accuracy, attention for every little detail, it is extremely clear in the exposition of the various steps of the creation of a book it's a great reading, captivating and interesting! Intriguing from the beginning to the end, this book can't be put down for a second."---Anna Maria Polidori, Alfemminile"In this excellent contribution to the study of literature and of the sociology of culture, Childress situates a specific cultural object--Cornelia Nixon's novel Jarrettsville (2009)--within the many contexts responsible for its birth and integration into the social fabric. In so doing, he reasserts the social nature of cultural products, a claim at the cornerstone of sociology as a discipline. . . . This work is interesting as a study of the evolving role of literature in modern life, and sociologists will learn from its unique approach to analyzing cultural products." * Choice *"Even someone who is part of the publishing system as an author is unaware of how the soup is made, and there can be no more fascinating, enjoyable, insightful, and well-written a guide to what goes on in the publishing kitchen than Clayton Childress’ wonderful Under the Cover."---Mitchell Abidor, Jewish Currents"Under the Cover is a significant contribution to work on cultural objects. Readers, prepared to be bowled over by the wealth of data Childress collected and the depth of his analyses. I certainly was. If you know you’ve read a good book when you’re jealous that you didn’t write it yourself, then color me green. To sum up, permit me to poach the words of Ayelet Waldman: 'This is a fucking AWESOME book.'"---Terence E. McDonnell, Social Forces"It is to Childress’s credit that Under the Cover does not announce itself as a program for the study of culture; such claims are more persuasive as demonstrations rather than pronouncements. Those who are open to the demonstration will note that in the guise of a lucid, lively study of a single novel, Under the Cover points the way to an arduous but richly rewarding approach to studying cultural life in general."---Ben Merriman, American Journal of Sociology"This beautifully written and deeply insightful book does just what its title indicates: it gets ‘under the cover’of a historical literary novel and follows it through its full life cycle, from inception to birth and beyond."---Heather Haveman, Administrative Science Quarterly
£23.75
Princeton University Press Chicago Price Theory
Book SynopsisPrice theory is a powerful analytical toolkit for measuring, explaining, and predicting human behavior in the marketplace. This incisive textbook provides an essential introduction to the subject, offering a diverse array of practical methods that empower students to learn by doing.Trade Review"A tremendous resource. This comprehensive and innovative book brings together in one great package the Chicago way of thinking about price theory."—Douglas A. Irwin, author of Free Trade under Fire
£54.00
Princeton University Press Privilege and Punishment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems""Matthew Clair, Co-Winner of the Michael Harrington Award, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems""Winner of the Media for a Just Society Book Award, Evident Change""Winner of a Gold Medal in Current Events, Independent Publisher Book Awards""Co-Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association""Co-Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association""Co-Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association""Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems""Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association""A careful study of what [Clair] argues is an overlooked cause of inequity in the criminal justice system: the unexpectedly combative relationship between defendants and their lawyers." * Harper's Magazine *"A well-researched, eye-opening study that will appeal to readers of criminal justice and sociology." * Library Journal *"Privilege and Punishment is worth reading to the end." * Science *"[Clair’s] study is important." * Christian Century *"Matthew Clair has written a timely and salient book that describes in intricate detail how the attorney-client relationship between lawyer and defendant reproduces race- and class-based disparities in a criminal court." * The Journal of Criminal Justice and Law *"I believe this book will be essential reading for aspiring lawyers or anyone who enjoys reading about courts. Matthew Clair is an exceptional writer and I believe Privilege and Punishment is a book that will never become obsolete."---Paige Kenningale, Ethnic and Racial Studies"A nuanced analysis of the courts. . . . Privilege and Punishment has highlighted a new arena of inquiry and provides a solid foundation for subsequent research to build upon. This book will surely inspire a great deal of scholarship in the years to come."---Veronica L. Horowitz, American Journal of Sociology"Well-written, deeply researched, and with pivotal findings for understanding race and class inequality."---Francisco Vieyra, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
£31.50
Princeton University Press Misdemeanorland
Book SynopsisA criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.Trade Review"Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association""Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the 2019 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society""Finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems"
£19.00
Princeton University Press The Language of Global Success
Book Synopsis"A fascinating examination of how an English-language mandate at a Japanese firm, Rakuten, unfolded over time and how employees reacted to it"--Back of jacket.Trade Review"Winner of the 2018 Bronze Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards"
£16.14
Princeton University Press Climbing Mount Laurel
Book Synopsis"Exploring the impact of an affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, this book provides new and innovative methodologies for examining key theoretical and public policy issues that have been the subject of intensive debate."--Gregory Squires, George Washington University.sity.Trade Review"Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Co-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Upscale Mount Laurel loomed large in the New Jersey State Supreme Court's key fair housing decisions in 1975 and 1983. But the housing itself wasn't built until all of 2001. For years, locals protested hard that home values would fall and crime rates would rise. Douglas S. Massey and four other authors . . . meticulously document how this wasn't the case at all."---Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe"Sociologist Massey and his coauthors tell a remarkable story about the Ethel Lawrence Homes (ELH) project, an affordable housing project for low- and moderate-income minority residents in an affluent white suburb in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. . . . They argue that the development of affordable housing projects for low-income minorities in affluent suburbs is an effective means to reduce race and class segregation, increase social mobility, reduce dependency, create better human capital, and achieve family well-being. A significant contribution to urban community studies and the literature on social policy related to housing in the metropolitan U.S." * Choice *"Climbing Mount Laurel should be on every planner's bookshelf for two key reasons. First, the book will likely serve as a fine, detailed study of a successful affordable housing project. Second, Climbing Mount Laurel can serve as a source of inspiration that economic and racial integration is possible in suburbia, but only when planners and developers pay attention to the big and little details."---Stuart Meck, Journal of American Planning Association"Massey and his coauthors provide a concise, effective overview of exclusionary practices and their effects on residential segregation."---John R. Logan, American Journal of Sociology"Climbing Mount Laurel is a welcome addition to the literature on housing mobility programs and neighborhood effects. Its methodological rigor and ability to avoid the pitfalls of spatial determinism are some of its key strengths, and the book should be of interest to scholars and practitioners of affordable housing, planning law, and program evaluation."---Aretousa Bloom, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"Impeccable. . . . Climbing Mount Laurel exemplifies social science at its finest—conclusively demonstrating through precise, thorough, thoughtful, and thought-provoking analysis how, for tens of millions of Americans, the path to the American Dream begins and ends at home."---Mark Rubinfeld, Journal of American Culture
£23.75
Princeton University Press The Nobel Factor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Selected for Bloomberg View’s “The Writing that Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016”""Selected for Canada’s Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Reputation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a truly original, highly insightful, and highly readable book on a vital yet largely unexplored question: who do we trust, why should we trust, and how should we trust. Let's stop ignoring the expert problem. This is not a book, but the birth of a branch of applied knowledge."—Nassim Nicholas Taleb"[Reputation] mixes crunchy intellectual provocations with literary allusions, catty takes on academic life and some juicy riffs."—Ian Leslie, New Statesman"Having a good reputation is crucial for individuals, groups, and even objects. Through wide-ranging and well-crafted examples—from wine tasting to academic prestige—Gloria Origgi offers a grand tour of how the social sciences illuminate the process of reputation formation. Reputations might be imperfect, but they are unavoidable, and Origgi's book can help us make them more reliable."—Hugo Mercier, coauthor of The Enigma of Reason
£17.09
Princeton University Press The Political Economy of the Special Relationship
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£37.80
Princeton University Press Give and Take
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Give and Take
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""A much needed sociological perspective on foreign aid that fundamentally shifts the terms of the debate.—Robert Wyrod, Contemporary Sociology"
£74.80
Princeton University Press The Israeli Economy
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£28.80
Princeton University Press The Tolls of Uncertainty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association""Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association""Damaske powerfully demonstrates how gender and class intersect and produce widely divergent experiences among the unemployed. In a vivid and insightful analysis of recently unemployed working- and middle-class women and men, Damaske reveals novel mechanisms through which unemployment both exacerbates existing inequalities and creates new inequalities. The study offers unparalleled insight into the trajectories of the unemployed and makes poignant contributions to our understanding of economic inequality and gender. . . . An extremely captivating, compelling, and careful analysis of various gendered and classed mechanisms reproducing and creating inequalities among the unemployed."---Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Forces"Damaske makes a compelling case that unemployment, like the pathways leading up to and following it, touches people in vastly different ways. . . . She argues we can do better. Let’s hope we can and do. The Tolls of Uncertainty points to narratives and policies that could undermine rather than reinforce existing inequalities."---Naomi Gerstel, Contemporary Sociology"[A] fascinating new book. . . . The Tolls of Uncertainty reveals that middle-class white men are vastly overrepresented among the beneficiaries who fully recover from unemployment, while other groups tread water or end up worse off."---Christine L. Williams, Gender & Society"There's a way to change the system and the way is to read [The Tolls of Uncertainty]. People need to understand that the unemployment experience is not these odd, ugly stereotypes."---Mark Price, Evidence-to-Impact podcast"[The Tolls of Uncertainty] offers enduring lessons about unemployment and the family."---Naomi R. Cahn, Jotwell
£19.80
Princeton University Press Competition in the Promised Land
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association""In her rich and technical account Competition in the Promised Land, Leah Boustan employs the tools of her trade--resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures--to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole."---James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review"Boustan offers several original and valuable insights and extensions [to the existing literature]."---Howard Bodenhorn, EH.Net"Highly recommended for anyone studying mid-twentieth-century black migration in the United States and racially segregated labor markets and housing patterns in northern American cities."---Farley Grubb, Journal of Southern History"Competition in the Promised Land effectively revises and extends the voluminous scholarship on the Great Migration, demonstrating what the very best of economic history can bring to the study of the history of African Americans."---Keona K. Ervin, Michigan Historical Review
£20.90
Princeton University Press Institutions Innovation and Industrialization
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These essays demonstrate the breadth of institutionalist economic history, covering the interaction of institutions, culture, markets, and politics in shaping economic behavior and outcomes." * Choice *
£36.00
Princeton University Press Playbooks and Checkbooks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. Szymanski, an economics professor at the Cass Business School at City University in London, tackles the apparent paradoxes of the sports business in the head-on style of an N.F.L. linebacker. . . . He displays an impressive global knowledge of sports ranging from basketball and cricket to tennis and rugby, and provides a wealth of revealing financial information as well as entertaining sports trivia."---Harry Hurt III, New York Times"Playbooks and Checkbooks is not a snoozer but a sleeper; equal parts eminently readable and wholly fascinating. . . . Szymanski's non-elaborated notion places his book with the best art history, for art also is a creature of its time."---David M. Gordon, The Browser"Szymanski covers most relevant topics in modern sports economic theory in a very elegant and in my opinion comprehensible fashion. Personally, I really enjoyed his explanation of wage formation in sports labour markets, and his (sociological/historical) views on the development of sport as business. . . . It is well written, well structured and sometimes even funny."---Kjetil K. Haugen, Nordic Sport Studies Forum
£33.25
Princeton University Press Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios
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£100.30
Princeton University Press Unsettled Account
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Grossman's is a good read. The book tells you as to how we got to be where we are. There are lessons to be learnt for those who want to go about reshaping reforms in global banking." * BusinessWorld *"Grossman weaves an enormous amount of research into an impressive history of the banking industry in many developed countries over the last 200 years. His focuses primarily on changes in the size and structure of the banking industry over time and argues that banks and bank assets rise as a share of overall economic output and then fall as a country moves from developing to developed. . . . [T]his work represents a valuable contribution to the history of banking." * Choice *"Professor Grossman has assembled an impressive collection of historical, statistical, and bibliographic data, one that would be extremely difficult to reproduce using other sources. This information will prove invaluable for those conducting intensive research on commercial or international banking, and Unsettled Account will make an excellent addition for libraries that commonly serve such patrons. Academic law libraries at institutions offering specific courses in commercial banking may also want to consider a copy."---Shannon L. Kemen, Law Library Journal"Unsettled Account provides us with a new and welcome history of the last three centuries of banking. Who should read this book? A lot of people. For the legions of political, social and cultural historians, if they have to read one book on the historical evolution of banking, this is it. It will provide them with the needed theoretical background without an equation in sight, useful country studies, and the insights needed to instruct their students. For the legions of economic theorists, if they have to read one book on the historical evolution of banking, this is it. The book is a guide to every key stylized fact they might use for a model, identifying the broad parameters of institutions and history. For the legions of policy makers, if they have to read one book on the historical evolution of banking, this is it. Distanced from the crisis of the moment, Grossman nicely hits the key issues and distills some relevant lessons."---Eugene White, EH.Net"[A] number of books stand out as works of real scholarship written by experts in their fields. Unsettled Account should be numbered among the best of those produced so far."---Ranald Michie, BHR"Richard Grossman has produced a valuable and accessible synthesis of research on some key aspects of banking history in this publication. . . . Students and academics with an interest in financial history, as well as practitioners and regulators, would benefit from reading Unsettled Account."---John Singleton, Australian Economic History Review"Richard Grossman has long been a well regarded figure in the field of financial history, and he has applied his knowledge and analysis to produce a comparative history of banking in Western Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."---Ranald Michie, Business History Review"What Grossman has done, in drawing our attention to the way in which past banking crises have been dealt with, is a significant contribution to the literature on the problems and difficulties involved in dealing with banks."---Jonathan Warner, European Legacy
£36.00
Princeton University Press Money Talks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book's central message--that the management and regulation of money should not be left to economists or bankers alone--is one we should all take to heart."---Rebecca Spang, Financial Times"Although Money Talks will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the state of scholarship in the sociology of money, the diverse and wide-ranging contributions should make individual chapters valuable to audiences well beyond the confines of this subfield."---Russell J. Funk, Administrative Science Quarterly"To anyone interested in money’s sociality past, present, and future and its ability to shape and be shaped by groups, collectives, organizations, and institutions this book is integral to the ongoing debate."---Allister Pilar Plater, American Journal of Cultural Sociology"Money Talks is a remarkable edited volume that is much needed."---Cheris Shun-ching Chan, American Journal of Sociology
£31.50
Princeton University Press Nation Building
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research""Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""In this fascinating account of state- and nation-building across time and space, Wimmer does a great job in convincing readers of the explanatory value of his theory."---Sean Mueller, Regional and Federal Studies"This is a book of profound and far-reaching significance for those wishing to understand how nations are built.—John Torpey, Sociological Forum"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Experimental Economics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Experimental Economics is a well intentioned book which does an admirable job in consolidating and modernising the ongoing methodological debates surrounding experimental economics. . . . I would recommend this book to empirical social scientists, particularly the first two parts, which crystallise the major debates ongoing in the discipline."---Tom Wilkening, The Economic Record"This is an extremely rich and cultured book that makes a large number of intelligent points about experimental methods. It also raises sophisticated questions concerning what it means to test a theory and how one can test in an environment in which an error model unconstrained by theory is essential to judging empirical fit."---Andrew Caplin, Journal of Economics and Philosophy
£46.75
Princeton University Press Happiness for All
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )"
£19.00
Princeton University Press Taking the Floor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management""Co-Winner of the EGOS Book Prize, European Group for Organizational Studies""Providing a unique perspective on a complex suject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like."---City Press Office, Cass Business School"Taking the Floor is a significant contribution to social studies of finance and economic sociology more broadly. It will certainly be worthwhile reading not only for specialists, but also a much broader audience, since the way abstract models shape reality is becoming one of the more salient issues in contemporary societies within and beyond the realm of finance."---Manuel A. Santana-Turégano, London School of Economics Review of Books"“Taking the Floor is beautifully written. . . . Throughout, [Beunza’s] storytelling keeps the reader riveted.”"---Joel Gehman, Organization Studies
£20.90
Princeton University Press The Handbook of Chinas Financial System
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£73.80
Princeton University Press Persuasive Peers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Best Book Award, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association"
£999.99
Princeton University Press Digital Renaissance What Data and Economics Tell
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£15.19
Princeton University Press Competition and Stability in Banking
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is worth reading from cover to cover. It is thoughtful, well written, lucidly surveys some well-known material, and brings useful insights using some of the tools of industrial organisation economics."---Geoffrey Wood, Central Banking Journal"Competition and Stability in Banking can be said to represent the best of available knowledge. . . . An impressive work of one of the leading economists in the field. It is first of all a (rather: the) new textbook on a Master or PhD level. Yet, it should also be mandatory reading to all economists (and lawyers) working in official or government agencies related to either banking regulation and supervision or competition."---Urs Birchler, Journal of Economics and Statistics
£25.20
Princeton University Press Eating People Is Wrong and Other Essays on Famine
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015""[I]ts final chapter offers salient discussion of future possibilities and constraints for food security."---Liz Young, Times Higher Education"This book is written in calm prose, but its message is urgent: continue as we are and poverty will grow on our doorsteps."---Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education"The Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda has written a rarity: a coolly rational, cautiously cheerful book about the most viscerally upsetting subject imaginable, mass death from hunger. . . .For Ó Gráda, perhaps the world's expert on the history and economics of famine, now is the time to understand this long-standing terror."---Charles C. Mann, Pacific Standard"The breadth of primary and secondary resources referenced is notable throughout, and this excellent book by a leading scholar is accessible to all readers." * Choice *"Cormac Ó Gráda knows more than most people about famines, historical and modern, and his short book of essays, Eating People is Wrong, is superb."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"The overriding impression one gets from reading Cormac Ó Gráda's latest, brilliant book is that famines the world over are an ugly human stain."---David Nally, Irish Times"Dealing with some of the most horrendous aspects of famine, the five essays collected here are meticulously scholarly and at the same time arrestingly vivid."---John Gray, New Statesman"Ó Gráda's book offers a sobering reminder of the importance of making judgments based on good data and unhindered by ideological filters."---Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs
£25.20
Princeton University Press The Age of Questions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History""An imaginative and intriguing book. . . . [Case’s] book is a dazzling display of erudition, with a little over 200 pages of elegant, witty text supported by a hundred pages of densely packed endnotes."---Jonathan Sperber, Times Literary Supplement"Joining erudition with a poetic if occasionally enigmatic style, this book shivers with the restless spirit of the age it describes."---Ian P Beacock, Los Angeles Review of Books"By systemizing her material into diverse arguments, and letting them contend with each other, Case convincingly shows how each carries a historiographic truth that is as plausible as all the others." * Connections *"This book is a brilliant interrogation of the code in which the nineteenth century tells its contradictory story."---Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, Journal of Modern History
£999.99
Princeton University Press Study Gods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The importance of this study is . . . that while most research so far om social inequality and status reproduction (as distinct from upward social mobility) has considered thewe phenomena as restricted to one country, it is now shown that the elite students of China are part of the dynamics of elite status reproduction on a global scale."---Bart Dessein, Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
£71.40
Princeton University Press Magazines and the Making of America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2016 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Co-Winner of the 2017 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""[Magazines and the Making of America] is a work of sociology and as such it contributes to the growing literature on print culture by considering how the demography, geography, and economics of print fueled (and were fueled by) capitalism." * Choice *"Magazines and the Making of America is a treasure trove for students of social movements and political history, for it chronicles the scores of movements, from anti-dueling to Indian rights to free love, that swept the nation. . . . A bright star to guide others applying the new methods of social science to historical topics. Haveman has a penchant for coding and counting everything in sight. She tracks each broadside and circular from before the dawn of the nation, and thus we get much more than an impressionistic romp through the history of the genre. The book is chock full of figures and analyses that substantiate the argument, and the narrative is followed by well over a hundred pages of appendices and bibliography."---Frank Dobbin., Administrative Science Quarterly"Fills a large hole in the scholarship of early American magazines, finally putting their influence on a par with the much more widely studied newspaper form."---Kevin Lerner, Journal of Magazine & New Media Research"An important reminder of print's history and influence on American culture."---Andrea McDonnell, Journal of American Culture"Make no mistake, Magazines and the Making of America is a tour de force of historical, economic, and media sociology. For its methodological rigor, for its theoretical reach, for its historical breadth and richness, this is a book that will be pondered and built upon for many years to come."---Rodney Benson, American Journal of Sociology"Haveman’s Magazines and the Making of America will remain a landmark in periodical studies. To see with her what periodicals accomplished from 1741 to 1860 may give us some confidence that they will continue to serve a vital role in the making of America."---Robert J. Scholnick, American Periodicals
£28.80
Princeton University Press Inequality and Globalization
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£32.30
