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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097664
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Introduction to Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Velthuis, Olav - Princeton University Press
from unequivocal. For some, a high price may be a symbol of status; for others, it is a symbol of fraud. Whereas …
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Introduction to Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert; Groves, Melissa Osborne - Princeton University Press
economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers … this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The …
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What Does Finance Want? from <i>Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War</i>
Kirshner, Jonathan - Princeton University Press
else, and crises and war threaten that stability. States that pursue appeasement when assertiveness--or even conflict …
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Introduction
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
the new dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the … greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
the new dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the … greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth. The …
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Change and the Planning System, from <i>The New Industrial State</i>
Galbraith, John Kenneth - Princeton University Press
and create consumer "need" where none previously existed. Multinational corporations are the continuation of this power …
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