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Analytic Narratives
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important...
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Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; Jean-Laurent - Princeton University Press
Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010606982
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Introduction to Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance
Gourevitch, Peter A.; Shinn, James - Princeton University Press
blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management …, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while … other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition …
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Introduction
Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays...
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Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development
Greif, Avner; Kiesling, Lynne; Nye, John V. C. - Princeton University Press
This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel Mokyr—arguably the preeminent economic historian of his generation—these wide-ranging essays...
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Introduction to John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern's <i>Theory of Games and Economic Behavior</i>
Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press
This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published <i>Theory of Games and Economic Behavior</i>....
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Introduction to The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
Coyle, Diane - Princeton University Press
To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. Building on the popularity of books such as...</i>
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Introduction to The Essential John Nash
Nasar, Sylvia - Princeton University Press
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography <i>A Beautiful Mind</i>, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. <I>The Essential John Nash</I> reveals his work--in...</i>
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Autobiography, from <i>The Essential John Nash</i>
John F. Nash, Jr. - Princeton University Press
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography <i>A Beautiful Mind</i>, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. <I>The Essential John Nash</I> reveals his work--in...</i>
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Preface to The Essential John Nash
Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography <i>A Beautiful Mind</i>, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. <I>The Essential John Nash</I> reveals his work--in...</i>
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