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Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Wagner, Gernot; Weitzman, Martin L. - Princeton University Press
's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing …
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Economics With and Without the Law, from <i>Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance</i>
Dixit, Avinash K. - Princeton University Press
, social networks to disseminate information and norms to impose sanctions, and for-profit enforcement services--have grown up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005453803
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Introduction
Phelps, Edmund - Princeton University Press
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,...
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Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
Phelps, Edmund - Princeton University Press
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097657
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Introduction to Principles of Economic Sociology
Swedberg, Richard - Princeton University Press
, giving particular attention to the effects of culture on economic phenomena and the ways that economic actions are embedded … to politics, law, culture, and gender. Swedberg notes that sociologists too often fail to properly emphasize the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200622
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Facts and Issues, from <i>Multinational Firms in the World Economy</i>
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Venables, Anthony J. - Princeton University Press
Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200618
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The Next Great Globalization: A Force for Good
Mishkin, Frederic S. - Princeton University Press
Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening … disadvantaged nations near and far. But in <i>The Next Great Globalization</i>, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the … opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich. Mishkin argues that an effectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200620
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NO CHAPTER AVAILABLE YET Book Title: Remembering Inflation
Granville, Brigitte - Princeton University Press
globalization, mercantilism, and reserve accumulation. …
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Introduction to Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Legrain, Philippe - Princeton University Press
Immigration 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...
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Introduction to Why Are There So Many Banking Crises? The Politics and Policy of Bank Regulation
Rochet, Jean-Charles - Princeton University Press
deregulation and globalization, political interference often causes--and almost always exacerbates--banking crises. If, for example …
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