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Introduction to Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

Bessen, James; Meurer, Michael J. - Princeton University Press

In the last several years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the media and to Congress that today’s patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it. But like the infamous patent on the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much of the cited evidence about...

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Economics With and Without the Law, from Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance

Dixit, Avinash K. - Princeton University Press

How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent? How can firms from advanced market economies do business in such circumstances? In Lawlessness and Economics, Avinash Dixit examines the theory of private institutions that...

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Introduction to Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

Legrain, Philippe - Princeton University Press

them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and …

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Social Science in Between, from Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

Miller, John H.; Page, Scott E. - Princeton University Press

detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and …

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Complexity in Social Worlds, from Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

Miller, John H.; Page, Scott E. - Princeton University Press

detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and …

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Prologue to The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Page, Scott E. - Princeton University Press

those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like … individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields … debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a …

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Introduction to Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000

Federico, Giovanni - Princeton University Press

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected, success story. It has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a growing number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book, a...

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Introduction to The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century

Zanden, Jan Luiten van; Riel, Arthur van - Princeton University Press

A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history. Based on a detailed reconstruction of extensive economic data, the authors account for...

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Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics

Unger, Roberto Mangabeira - Princeton University Press

Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional...

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