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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

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Cities of Commerce: The Institutional Foundations of International Trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650

Gelderblom, Oscar - Princeton University Press

all over Europe. Cities of Commerce intervenes in an important debate on the growth of trade in Europe before the …

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Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

Kander, Astrid; Malanima, Paolo; Warde, Paul - Princeton University Press

development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern … Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the … eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world …

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Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy

Frieden, Jeffry A. - Princeton University Press

The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity....

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The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations

Morris, Ian - Princeton University Press

In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the long-term growth of societies. Using a...

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Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics

Jones, Daniel Stedman - Princeton University Press

ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since …

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American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the 20th Century

Berghahn, Volker R. - Princeton University Press

rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in …

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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

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …

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Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600–1757

Erikson, Emily - Princeton University Press

was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why … England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and …

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