-Titulo Original : Efficiently Inefficient How Smart Money Invests And Market Prices Are Determined-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Efficiently Inefficient is a truly modern and masterful introduction to how finance will be studied and practiced in the twenty-first century.--Andrei Shleifer, Harvard UniversityA tour-de-force combination of original research and provocative interviews with hedge fund managers.--Laurence B. Siegel, CFA Institute Research FoundationEncyclopedic in its cataloging of active management strategies and authoritative in its analysis of the practical issues of their implementation.--Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts JournalFor a book on investments, Efficiently Inefficient sets a completely different and higher standard.--Darrell Duffie, Stanford UniversityThis valuable and intriguing book provides a contemporary survey of investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes and strategies. Combining a wonderful narrative with a rigorous analytical structure, Efficiently Inefficient serves the needs of students, serious investors, and professionals.--Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson Investments Financial market behavior and key trading strategies illuminated by interviews with top hedge fund expertsEfficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples to show how certain tactics make money and why they sometimes don’t. He explores equity strategies, macro strategies, and arbitrage strategies, and fundamental tools for portfolio choice, risk management, equity valuation, and yield curve trading. The book also features interviews with leading hedge fund managers: Lee Ainslie, Cliff Asness, Jim Chanos, Ken Griffin, David Harding, John Paulson, Myron Scholes, and George Soros. Efficiently Inefficient reveals how financial markets really work. Review Encyclopedic in its cataloging of active management strategies and authoritative in its analysis of the practical issues of their implementation. Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts JournalThis valuable and intriguing book provides a contemporary survey of investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes and strategies. Combining a wonderful narrative with a rigorous analytical structure, Efficiently Inefficient serves the needs of students, serious investors, and professionals. Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson InvestmentsFor a book on investments, Efficiently Inefficient sets a completely different and higher standard. Darrell Duffie, Stanford UniversityEfficiently Inefficient is a truly modern and masterful introduction to how finance will be studied and practiced in the twenty-first century. Andrei Shleifer, Harvard UniversityA tour-de-force combination of original research and provocative interviews with hedge fund managers. Laurence B. Siegel, CFA Institute Research Foundation From the Back Cover This valuable and intriguing book provides a contemporary survey of investments across a wide spectrum of asset classes and strategies. Combining a wonderful narrative with a rigorous analytical structure, Efficiently Inefficient serves the needs of students, serious investors, and professionals. It is an important contribution to the investment literature.--Gary P. Brinson, CFA, GP Brinson InvestmentsFor a book on investments, Efficiently Inefficient sets a completely different and higher standard. Pedersen blends the best and latest research, accessible to both MBA students and professionals, with the insights of some of the worlds leading hedge fund managers. It works beautifully.--Darrell Duffie, Stanford UniversityEfficiently Inefficient is a truly modern and masterful introduction to how finance will be studied and practiced in the twenty-first century.--Andrei Shleifer, Harvard UniversityHow are markets efficient enough to stump most investors, yet inefficient enough to allow hedge fund managers to earn huge pr...

-Titulo Original : The Case Against Education Why The Education System Is A Waste Of Time And Money-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review The Case against Education . . . is a case of Caplan being right.--Charles Fain Lehman, Washington Free Beacon[Caplan] argues devastatingly . . . that college is, for many of those who go there, a boondoggle.--Kyle Smith, National ReviewA wake-up call for all Americans.--Ian Lindquist, Weekly StandardCogently argued.--Megan McArdle, Washington Post Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite being immensely popular and immensely lucrative education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students skills but to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As only to forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for average workers, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy. Romantic notions about education being good for the soul must yield to careful research and common sense The Case against Education points the way. Review Cogently argued. Megan McArdle, Washington PostA wake-up call for all Americans. Ian Lindquist, Weekly StandardThe Case against Education . . . is a case of Caplan being right. Charles Fain Lehman, Washington Free Beacon[Caplan] argues devastatingly . . . that college is, for many of those who go there, a boondoggle. Kyle Smith, National Review From the Back Cover Few would disagree that our education system needs reform. While most call for more--more government subsidies, more time in school, more students attending college--Caplan provocatively argues for less. The Case against Education urges a radical rethinking about why weve been unsuccessful to date--and why more of the same wont work.--Vicki Alger, Independent Institute Bryan Caplan has written what is sure to be one of the most intriguing and provocative books on education published this year. His boldly contrarian conclusion--that much schooling and public support for education is astonishingly wasteful, if not counterproductive--is compelling enough that it should be cause for serious reflection on the part of parents, students, educators, advocates, and policymakers.--Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute You doubtless asked many times in school, When am I going to use this? Bryan Caplan asks the same question, about everything taught prekindergarten through graduate school, and has a disturbing answer: almost never. Indeed, wed be better off with a lot less education. Its heresy that must be heard.--Neal McCluskey, Cato Institute The Case against Education is a riveting book. Bryan Caplan, the foremost whistle-blower in the academy, argues persuasively that learning about completely arbitrary subjects is attractive to employers because it signals students intelligence, work ethic, desire to please, and conformity--even when such learning conveys no cognitive advantage or increase in human capital.--Stephen J. Ceci, Cornell University This book is hugely important. The Case against Education is the work of an idiosyncratic genius.--Lant Pritchett, author of The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Aint Learning Caplan deals provocatively and even courageously with an important topic. Readers will be disturbed by his conclusions, maybe even angry. But I doubt they will ignore them.--Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much About the Author Bryan Caplan is professor of economics at George Mason University. His books include Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. Twitter @bryan_capla...

-Titulo Original : What We Owe Each Other A New Social Contract For A Better Society-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year AwardIn this intelligent and lucid book, she calls for a new social contract based on three principles: security for all; investment in capability; and efficient and fair sharing of risks.---Martin Wolf, Financial TimesIn her new book What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, Minouche Shafik reviews where we stand, and quotes Yeats: ‘surely some revelation is at hand.’ The revelation required is that of an inextricably interlinked society.---Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, ProspectOffer[s] a persuasive diagnosis of the present social malaise and offer[s] plenty of suggestions about what policymakers could do.---Diane Coyle, Financial TimesBooks dealing with the social contract often tend to be soothing, even soppy. They quote Rousseau and construct grand theories. Minouche Shafik brilliantly avoids this pitfall, simply defining the social contract as what we can expect, in society, from each other.---Julien Damon, TelosWhat We Owe Each Other … articulates why, when, and how government policies can help society reach its goals. Shafik wields her compelling personal experience and a wealth of academic research to argue for a more robust social contract and renewed commitment to shared responsibility. Readers will be left cautiously hopeful that governments can be a force for good and that a better tomorrow is possible.---Andrew Stevens, The Christian CenturyWhat We Owe Each Other is data-driven, immensely informative, insightful, and provocative.---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology TodayAn appeal to use the occasion of the pandemic to recast our view of rights and obligations. . . . A welcome update of Rousseau-vian ideals of duty, responsibility, and reciprocity. Kirkus ReviewsA persuasive argument for a new social contract to address modern inequalities and dissatisfaction. Shelf AwarenessProgressive, pragmatic, and deeply empathetic. Fast Company MagazineAn intelligent and honest attempt to tackle a broad range of problems---John Phelan, American Experiment From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change.Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return.Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society together. Review Minouche Shafiks up-to-the-moment work of economic policy presents a powerful and persuasive moral argument. She calls for a more generous, more equal world and offers an analysis that is rigorous and specific enough to help readers think practically about ...

-Titulo Original : Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Technologies A Comprehensive Introduction-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American PublishersFor people interested in the inner workings of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, this is an excellent book. ChoiceThis book provides an outstanding treatment of a complex phenomenon--the rise of cryptocurrency technologies.---Wilko Bolt, Journal of Economic LiteratureThis book is a very nice introduction to Bitcoin, its structure, how it can be used (and possibly abused), and how it might evolve in the future. . . . The authors have a relaxed tone and this book could easily be incorporated into an undergraduate curriculum.---Jeffrey Putnam, Association for Computing Machinery Computing Reviews An authoritative introduction to the exciting new technologies of digital moneyBitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you everything you need to know about the new global money for the Internet age.How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions this book answers. It begins by tracing the history and development of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and then gives the conceptual and practical foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network as well as to integrate ideas from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more.An essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currencyCovers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain, security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation, altcoins, and much moreFeatures an accompanying website that includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems, programming assignments, and lecture slidesAlso suitable for use with the authors Coursera online courseElectronic solutions manual (available only to professors) Review Block chain technology is set to disrupt many different industries. If you want to get up to speed on this fast-moving technology, this book should be your first stop. Campbell R. Harvey, Duke UniversityAmong this books many features are lots of nice, concrete examples and pleasant anecdotes, as well as a highly readable and enjoyable history of cryptocurrencies. Strongly recommended. Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa From the Back Cover Block chain technology is set to disrupt many different industries. If you want to get up to speed on this fast-moving technology, this book should be your first stop.--Campbell R. Harvey, Duke UniversityAmong this books many features are lots of nice, concrete examples and pleasant anecdotes, as well as a highly readable and enjoyable history of cryptocurrencies. Strongly recommended.--Tyler Moore, University of Tulsa About the Author Arvind Narayanan is assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Joseph Bonneau is a postdoctoral researcher at the Applied Cryptography Group at Stanford University. Edward Felten is director of Princetons Center for Information Technology Policy. Andrew Miller is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Maryland. Steven Goldfeder is a PhD student in computer science at Princeton. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency TechnologiesA Comprehensive IntroductionBy Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven GoldfederPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSCopyright © 2016 Princeton University PressAll righ...

-Titulo Original : Women Dont Ask Negotiation And The Gender Divide-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review An eye-opener, a call to arms, and a plan for action; it is enlightening, unsettling, and, ultimately, inspiring. Teresa HeinzThe first book to adequately explain the dramatic differences in how men and women negotiate and why women so often fail to ask for what they want at work (starting with equal pay). FortuneEnlightening. Denise Kersten, USA TodayProvocative. . . . Offers important insights into the persistent economic gap between men and women. Dolores Kong, Boston GlobeShould be read by anyone with a fear of negotiating, male or female, and by managers who want a better understanding of how 47 percent of the work force confronts the workplace. Alan B. Krueger, New York Times The groundbreaking classic that explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyondWhen Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were teaching their own courses while female students were always assigned as assistants, her dean said: More men ask. The women just dont ask. Drawing on psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior as well as dozens of interviews with men and women in different fields and at all stages in their careers, Women Dont Ask explores how our institutions, child-rearing practices, and implicit assumptions discourage women from asking for the opportunities and resources that they have earned and deserve perpetuating inequalities that are fundamentally unfair and economically unsound. Women Dont Ask tells women how to ask, and why they should. About the Author Linda Babcock is the James M. Walton Professor of Economics and head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Sara Laschever is a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, and Vogue. Babcock and Laschever are the coauthors of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want...

-Titulo Original : The Battle Of Bretton Woods John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, And The Making Of A New World Order (council On Foreign Relations Books (princeton University Press))-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 2013 Spears Book Award in Financial HistoryCo-Winner of the 2014 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book AwardsOne of The Motley Fool’s (John Reeves) 10 Great Books on American Economic History 2014One of Financial Times (FT ) Best History Books of 2013One of Bloomberg News’ Top Business Books of 2013One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of the Year for 2013 in Business and EconomicsOne of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, as selected individually by Fredrik Erixon, Scott Minerd, Olli Rehn and Alan GreenspanFeatured in The Sunday Times 2013 Holiday RoundupShortlisted for the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards in Finance & EconomicsHonorable Mention for the 2014 Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign RelationsShortlisted for the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize, Lionel Gelber FoundationThe Battle of Bretton Woods should become the gold standard on its topic. The details are addictive.---Fred Andrews, New York TimesA superb history. Mr. Steil . . . is a talented storyteller.---James Grant, Wall Street JournalSteils book, engaging and entertaining, perceptive and instructive, is a triumph of economic and diplomatic history. Everything is here: political chicanery, bureaucratic skulduggery, espionage, hard economic detail and the acid humour of men making history under pressure.---Tony Barber, Financial TimesSteil, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, understands the economic issues at stake and has done meticulous research on the history. Every good story that has ever been told about the major actors involved and the happening itself is in his book, and a few more besides. For those who come fresh to the subject, and even for those who know most of it, it is an excellent and revealing account.---Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books[A] masterful (and readable) account of American realpolitik and British delusion.---Andrew Hilton, Financial WorldThis is a fantastic book. Gold and money, two of my favorite topics. Its also brilliantly insightful history, and a gripping spy thriller to boot.---Larry Kudlow, CNBC[T]he author masterfully translates the arcana of competing theories of monetary policy, and a final chapter explains how, while some of the institutions created by Bretton Woods endure--the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund--many of the conferences assumptions were swiftly overtaken by the Marshall Plan. Throughout Steils sharp discussion runs the intriguing subplot of Whites career-long, secret relationship with Soviet intelligence. A vivid, highly informed portrayal of the personalities, politics and policies dominating the most important international gathering since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Kirkus ReviewsIn his masterful account, The Battle of Bretton Woods, Steil situates the conference firmly in the tense, heightened atmosphere of the final months of World War II. . . . Steils book comes alive in his description of [Keynes and Whites] contrasting experiences at the conference.---Sam Knight, Bloomberg News[H]ypnotically readable.---Peter Passell, Milken Institute Review[T]hought provoking and well written.---Kathleen Burk, Literary ReviewThis is an excellent book. . . . [It] also contains some explosive revelations about Whites work as a Soviet spy, very well documented I might add.---Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionIf you think economics and finance are dry subjects at best, Steils book offers a refreshing surprise. Its a political thriller in which the protagonists, one whom you think you know and one whom you probably dont, are much more intriguing (in both senses of the word) than they first appear.---Daniel Altman, Big Think[I]n a new book explaining what really happened at Bretton Woods, Benn Steil shows that what happened in the mountains of New Hampshire that summer is not quite the story we have been told.---Neil Irwin, WashingtonPost [Benn Steils]...

-Titulo Original : The Origins Of The Urban Crisis Race And Inequality In Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition (princeton Classics)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 1998 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryWinner of the 1997 Philip Taft Prize in Labor HistoryWinner of the 1996 Presidents Book Award, Social Science History AssociationWinner of the 1997 Best Book in North American Urban History Award, Urban History AssociationOne of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997Praise for Princetons previous edition:[Sugrues] disciplined historical engagement with a complex, often inglorious, past offers a compelling model for understanding how race and the Rust Belt converged to create the current impasse. AmericaPraise for Princetons previous edition: A splendid book that does no less than transform our understanding of United States history after 1940. Labor HistoryPraise for Princetons previous edition: [A] first-rate account . . . . With insight and elegance, Sugrue describes the street-by-street warfare to maintain housing values against the perceived encroachment of blacks trying desperately to escape the underbuilt and overcrowded slums. ChoicePraise for Princetons previous edition: Perhaps by offering a clearer picture of how the urban crisis began, Sugrue brings us a bit closer to finding a way to end it. In These TimesPraise for Princetons previous edition: [T]he most interesting, informative, and provocative book on modern Detroit. Detroit Free PressPraise for Princetons previous edition: Superbly researched and engagingly written. Reviews in American HistoryPraise for Princetons previous edition: [A] devastating critique of the currently fashionable culture of poverty thesis. Must reading for anyone concerned about the current urban crisis.---Jacqueline Jones, Lingua Franca The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce Americas arsenal of democracy, Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today’s urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II.This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by Sugrue, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit’s bankruptcy. About the Author Thomas J. Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Princeton) and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North...

-Titulo Original : Radical Markets Uprooting Capitalism And Democracy For A Just Society-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of The Economists Best Business and Economics Books of 2018E. Glen Weyl & Eric Posner: One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Bloomberg 50” Icons of 2018Both a savage critique of techno-feudalism and an idealistic appeal to share the fruits of our collective intelligence more fairly.---John Thornhill, Financial TimesRadical Markets . . . could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect. . . . I highly recommend Radical Markets . . . to anyone interested in these kinds of issues, and look forward to seeing the discussion that the book generates.---Vitalik Buterin, Extremely thought provoking and clearly brilliant . . . Radical Markets certainly made me think about property, information, power. Well worth reading.---Diane Coyle, The Enlightened EconomistDoesn’t anybody have anything new to offer? . . . . [Y]es: . . . unleash the awesome power of markets . . . to uplift the poor . . . it just might be what the world needs now. . . . [Posner and Weyl are] smart and iconoclastic, and their book bursts with ideas like kernels of corn on a hot stove.---Peter Coy, Bloomberg BusinessweekWhat I love is just some new ideas, because the existing ideas to solve the injustices and inequalities aren’t working! A must-read.---Carol Massar, Bloomberg RadioA very thought-provoking book is a bizarre fusion of ideas drawn from the classical liberal . . . . and socialist tradition(s). . . . It contains ideas . . . that really do make you think. It is a really fun book to read and of you are someone who actually likes having your suppositions and beliefs challenged, take a look at it.---Reihan Salam, National Reviews The Editors podcastAn arresting if eccentric manifesto for rebooting liberalism. . . . Radical Markets is refreshing and welcome in its willingness to question received wisdom. The EconomistI highly recommend this book! Replacing markets by auctions (sort of). Whether you agree or not, it shows how much liberalism is able to renew itself.---Gaspard Koenig, Generation LibreRead this difficult and provocative book. It made my head hurt, and then spin. In a world where our current economic and political models are worth defending but are straining, this can only be a good thing.---Paschal Donohoe, Irish TimesIt will pay the readers . . . great intellectual returns to invest significant time in studying this book very carefully. It is ambitious and bold, and I think it should excite the imagination and motivate careful scholarship and analytical rigor among both critics and those who want to pursue the line of argument laid out.---Peter Boettke, Coordination ProblemThis system has enormous potential simple, fair, progressive taxes and a more dynamic economy. It would be much easier to develop new infrastructure, build new homes, buy your neighbour’s garden, and pour concrete all over twee villages to build monorails or airport runways.---Tim Harford, Financial TimesA provocative new book. The EconomistThis is free market thinking but not as we know it.---Diane Coyle, ProspectGlen Weyl, coauthor of Radical Markets, is tackling the core issues: What does human dignity mean in a highly automated future? How can we regain agency over the data we produce? If these don’t sound like economic questions, then get ready to encounter the future of economics. We can’t just complain about how tech is transforming our world; we need to invent the transformation.---Jaron Lanier, Wired[A] bold book.---Michael Sandel, New StatesmanA law professor and an economist argue that the way out of liberalism’s impasse is to expand the role of markets, not to subdue them. . . . Together they point to a possible response to the challenges of populism and protectionism. The EconomistRadical Markets is worth reading both for its genuinely innovative suggestions ...

-Titulo Original : Monarchs And Milkweed A Migrating Butterfly, A Poisonous Plant, And Their Remarkable Story Of Coevolution-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of a 2017 National Outdoor Book Award in Nature and EnvironmentOne of Forbes ’s 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientistHonorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American PublishersLonglisted for the 2018 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science BooksWinner of the 2018 CBHL Award of Excellence in Gardening and Gardens, Council on Botanical and Horticultural LibrariesA lively, highly informative introduction to significant research in ecology that highlights the importance of conserving our natural habitats. KirkusThis comprehensive and colorful illustrated study of monarch biology and behavior . . . offers another reason to admire the versatile insect: its long and successful symbiotic relationship with the otherwise toxic milkweed plant. . . . Agrawals book will appeal not only to butterfly enthusiasts but also to the environmentally aware and all readers who appreciate solidly written and accessible popular science. BooklistEpic is the only word to describe the annual journey of monarch butterflies. . . . Agrawals splendid book is no less epic, taking us from heart toxins and sodium pumps to climate change and illegal logging. This is important science about an iconic and sadly declining insect, made readable by enthusiastic, personal prose.---Richard Jones, BBC Wildlife Magazine[Anurag Agrawals] book is a minutely detailed exploration of just about everything about [monarchs]: sex lives, dining habits, internal flight guidance and, in particular, their coevolving-but-competitive relationship with milkweed.---Nancy Szokan, Washington PostFantastic, readable, scientifically rich, detailed. . . . Monarchs and Milkweed is to date the coolest nature or science book Ive seen so far this year. Greg Laden’s BlogAgrawals marvelous book is one of the most in--depth explorations of the process of co--evolution I have ever read. . . . What sets this book apart is two things: the superior quality of the writing and the range of scientific depth to which each topic is explored. Agrawal could give the recent grandmaster of science writing, Stephen Jay Gould, a proverbial run, and as a consequence, the book is highly accessible to everyone in a wide age range and from a variety of educational backgrounds.---NSTA Recommends, Science strongly indicates all living things evolved from a common ancestor to form the complex biosphere we inhabit on earth. Agrawal deftly plucks one strand from this web of life, the monarch butterfly, and elucidates reverberations that resonate from the dawn of time to the present and back and forth among life forms along the way. . . . Monarch life history on a toxic host laden with cardenolides and largely dependent on migrating vast distances to tiny overwintering sites and back again is the backbone of the book. . . . Color illustrations are abundantly informative, the main text font is eminently legible with a useful index, and the well bound paper stock bodes well for the physical longevity of the book. Science Books & FilmWell-illustrated and informative. The CardinalEcological and evolutionary processes are beautifully described in this endearing book. . . . [It] is recommended to all science libraries in general and to the lepidopterists in particular.---R. K. Varshney, BionotesAgrawal addresses a wide range of related topics--from the monarchs life cycle, to historic research, other invertebrates that are part of the milkweed complex, taste aversion, and even mimicry of the monarch’s coloration by other butterflies. The author’s accessible writing style will appeal to both the scientist and lay person. Helpful illustrations and photographs assist in clarifying the narrative. The American GardenerPublic and scientific interest in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) seems to be at an all-time high, and this volume stands out ni...

-Titulo Original : The Transformation Of The World A Global History Of The Nineteenth Century (america In The World, 15)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Jurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize FoundationJurgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel FoundationOne of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit DasOne of Marginal Revolution s (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014Osterhammel has written one of the most important, consequential works of history to appear in the post-cold war era. It has, rightly, been called an instant classic. . . . [T]his classic book should be indispensable reading for historians and for politically curious world citizens everywhere. It could make us better, more capacious citizens, more aware of the world we live in.---Fritz Stern, The New York Review of BooksA work of tremendous conceptual precision, breadth and insight, a masterpiece that sets a new benchmark for debates on the history of world society.---Benjamin Ziemann, Times Literary Supplement[A] big book in every sense. . . . An age of such panoramic creations deserves a chronicler with suitably panoramic inclinations. It has found a very able one in Jurgen Osterhammel.---Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Wall Street JournalA milestone of German historical writing, one of the most important historical books of the last several decades. . . . [A] mosaic-like portrait of an epoch.---Jurgen Kocka, Die Zeit[W]eighty in every sense of the word. . . . [A]n epic, masterly and sprawling mosaic of the age that built on, if only as reaction, foundations laid down by the Enlightenment. . . . Osterhammels compelling structuring brings home that the way we understand the world today is largely determined by institutions and innovations of the 19th century--and a peculiarly Eurocentric lens they provide. Alive to the potential for bias that this inevitably brings, the German historian has taken pains to create a genuinely world history of the age. . . . [T]he rendering of such a mind-boggling tapestry of human experience is deft and accessible.---Ben Richardson, South China Morning Post[A] 1165 pp. German Braudel-like take on the importance of the 19th century.---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution[V]ast, weighty, original, enthralling, exhausting and intimidating. . . . [I]t is impossible to do it full and adequate justice, even in a lengthy review such as this. Part monster-piece, part masterpiece, its limitations are inescapably those of the global history genre. . . . [I]t is a work of prodigious scholarship and astonishing authorial stamina; within the confines of the subject, it raises the study of global history to a new level of academic sophistication and geographical comprehensiveness; it abounds with memorable phrases and aphorisms, which betoken a lively and playful mind; and it offers wise and original insights about the many ways in which the 19th century made the world that we still, today, inhabit. If you only read one work of history this summer (and, believe me, it will take you all of a very long summer), then The Transformation of the World should definitely be it.---Sir David Cannadine, Financial TimesMassive . . . interesting . . . impressive. . . . The coverage is in many respects much greater than that of Braudel, not only geographically but also conceptually. . . . Osterhammels ambition, industry and scale shows up the work of all-too-many other historians. Similar books should be produced for other centuries. Let us hope that British historians can rise to the challenge of writing them.---Jeremy Black, StandpointThis superb study gives form to a global history that lasts from the late 18th well into the 20th century and it does so without oversimplifying. It is exhilarating to find a system builder with such a feeling for nuance and difference. The only study comparable is Christopher Baylys The Birth of the Modern World. This thick, d...

-Titulo Original : The Invisible Hook The Hidden Economics Of Pirates-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of San Francisco Chronicles 100 Best Books for 2009Winner of the 2009 Best International Nonfiction Book, WeekWinner of the 2009 Gold Medal Book of the Year Award in Business and Economics, ForeWord ReviewsA brisk, clever new book, The Invisible Hook, by Peter T. Leeson, an economist who claims to have owned a pirate skull ring as a child and to have had supply-and-demand curves tattooed on his right biceps when he was seventeen, offers a different approach. Rather than directly challenging pirates leftist credentials, Leeson says that their apparent espousal of liberty, equality, and fraternity derived not from idealism but from a desire for profit.---Caleb Crain, New Yorker[S]urprising and engaging . . . . [Leesons] seminars must be wildly popular.---Stephen Sedley, London Review of BooksEconomist Leeson leads readers though a surprisingly entertaining crash course in economics in this study of high seas piracy at the turn of the 18th century. . . . Illustrated with salty tales of pirates both famous and infamous, the book rarely bogs down even when explaining intricate economic concepts, making it a great introduction to both pirate history and economic theory. Publishers WeeklyMr. Leesons book represents a serious attempt to use the tools of economics to make sense of the institutions of piracy. The book is another example of economic imperialism, the use of economics to make sense of real world phenomena that are outside the standard realm of economic science. It addresses an important force that did, and does, impact world trade. But as the skull and crossbones on its spine suggests, the book is also just fun. . . . [T]he book manages to be entertaining and informative. It is a fun read and provides parents with something to teach their children while looking for pirate treasure left long ago at the beach.---Edward Glaeser, Economix blogThe Invisible Hook is an excellent book by one of the most creative young economists around.---Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics blogPeter T. Leeson has done his part to dispel the pirate myths by using economic theory to explain pirate behavior and organization in his exemplary new book. . . . Mr. Leeson has produced a fresh perspective on an old topic. . . . The Invisible Hook is quick-paced but thought-provoking. Based on this work, the reader should look forward to more books by the author.---Claude Berube, Washington TimesPiracy has not been Leesons only obsession. The other has been economics. When he was 17 years old he had supply and demand curves tattooed on his right bicep . . . now the professor has brought his two enthusiasms together in a wonderful (and wonderfully titled) new book. The Invisible Hook is his study of the hidden economics of piracy.---Daniel Finkelstein, TimesJauntily characterising the typical pirate ship as akin to a Fortune 500 company, [Leeson] reorients pirates as precursors of Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics.---Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial TimesOne of the finest introductory courses in economics since Henry Hazlitts Economics in One Lesson. . . . The Invisible Hook is a good addition to the genre of popular economics: a fun and enlightening read, and rock solid in its scholarly bona fides.---Michael Shermer, NatureFrom countless films and books we all know that, historically, pirates were criminally insane, traitorous thieves, torturers and terrorists. Anarchy was the rule, and the rule of law was nonexistent. Not so, dissents George Mason University economist Peter Leeson in his myth-busting book, The Invisible Hook, which shows how the unseen hand of economic exchange produces social cohesion even among pirates.---Michael Shermer, Scientific AmericanGiven the flurry of piracy off the Somali coast in 2009, this relatively short narrative could not be timelier. The Invisible Hook, a play on Adam Smiths famous invisible hand, is an engaging, informative look at the economics of ...

-Titulo Original : Democracy Incorporated Managed Democracy And The Specter Of Inverted Totalitarianism - New Edition-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of a 2008 Lannan Notable Book Award, Lannan Foundation[A] comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers. . . . Democracy Incorporated is a devastating critique of the contemporary government of the United States--including what has happened to it in recent years and what must be done if it is not to disappear into history along with its classic totalitarian predecessors.---Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig[Democracy Incorporated provides] a rare, chilling analysis of intellectual critics of democracy. If democracy means more than occasional elections and protection of those rights that are compatible with economic and political elites interests, Wolins analysis of our democratic predicament is shocking, solid, and fundamentally correct.---C. P. Waligorski, ChoiceSheldon Wolin has produced an ambitious and broad-ranging book that examines the current state of democracy in America. . . . Wolin argues that the unquestioned faith in the virtues of free market capitalism has dramatically narrowed the range of policy options that are on the table when debate turns to resolving the USs ills. . . .[T]his is a trenchant and powerful volume.---Alex Waddan, International AffairsOf the many books Ive read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon S. Wolins Democracy Incorporated. Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process.---Jonathan Crary, Artforum[W]e need to understand the deep roots of our present troubles ourselves and Wolins book is an excellent beginning.---Toby Grace, Out in JerseyDemocracy Incorporated acts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and an elitist obsession and should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty.---Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review[Wolin] provides a rich narrative of the struggle of elites and the demos from ancient Greece through the writing of the U.S. Constitution and into the present, and the corporate-managed politics that has emerged will survive no matter which party holds Congress or the presidency.---Coleman Fannin, Journal of Church and StateDespite being written shortly before both the financial crisis and the Obama victory, the main lineaments of his analysis are still alarmingly cogent.---Tom Angier, Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksPraise for the previous edition: Democracy Incorporatedacts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and … should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty.---Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies ReviewPraise for the previous edition: [A] comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers….Democracy Incorporatedis a devastating critique of the contemporary government of the United States.---Chalmers Johnson, Truthdig, Praise for the previous edition: Sheldon Wolin has produced an ambitious and broad-ranging book that examines the current state of democracy in America…. This is a trenchant and powerful volume.---Alex Waddan, International AffairsPraise for the previous edition: Like George Orwells1984, WolinsDemocracy Incorporatedwas intended to be a warning not a handbook. Wolin was prescient…. To find our way back to normalcy in a time of crisis and emergency we must ask ourselves, ‘how did we get here? Wolins wisdom is a helpful guide for that journey. Salon Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon W...

-Titulo Original : Blind Spots Why We Fail To Do Whats Right And What To Do About It-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 2012 Silver Medal Book Award in Business Ethics, Axiom BusinessWell-written, stuffed with intriguing research, and more than a little unnerving, this book will make readers reconsider some of their most entrenched beliefs. BizEd[Blind Spots] is full of studies in human behavior and those results can help us, and the people we manage, make better decisions. . . . [T]he book should be required reading for anyone entering the business world . . . or for those of us who still try to reconcile misdeeds that did not have to be.---Walter Pavlo, Forbes One explanation for what happened at News of the World can be found in a new book called Blind Spots. Its authors Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel look at how businesses, from Ford to Enron to subprime mortgage lenders, can end up mired in ethical disaster. But rather than discuss such choices as coolly calculated trade-offs between right and wrong, they look at how people actually make decisions--under pressure from shareholders, bosses and colleagues, up against tight deadlines and often worried about their careers, or even whether their contracts are going to be renewed.---Aditya Chakrabortty, GuardianThis book is a step toward . . . bringing together a host of studies by the authors and others that probe how easy it is for us [to] act less ethically than we would like. The book also shows how organizations can take advantage of these findings in behavioural ethics to change their informal culture.---Harvey Schachter, The Globe & MailBazerman and Tenbrunsel apply insights from the field of behavioral ethics to understand why individuals and organizations act unethically and what can be done to prevent such behavior. They draw on research from psychology and business to illustrate how factors outside our awareness influence decisions and behavior, and what we can do to prevent ethical lapses.---Taya R. Cohen, Pittsburgh Business TimesBlind Spots is a bold argument against the decency of human beings, showing how we subvert our ethical principles time and time again. Noting a human tendency to justify our own actions to ourselves with little thought for their consequences, business professors Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel explain how employees can give rise to dysfunctional organizations for fear of rocking the boat. . . . The authors adopt a lively tone throughout and harness a broad mix of examples, from lab experiments to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster and the collapse of Enron.---Gregor Hunter, The NationalIn an era where weve watched political leaders tell blatant lies and seen the corporate world nearly sunk by an onslaught of questionable ethics, its time to take a sober look at why people who think of themselves as moral can commit unethical and even unlawful acts--or approve the dishonest acts of others. . . . [T]his is examined in the recent book Blind Spots, by Harvard Business School professor Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel, professor of business ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Toronto StarThe style [of Blind Spots] is incisive and reassuringly uningratiating.---Steven Poole, The GuardianBazerman . . . and . . . Tenbrunsel . . . set out to show that if we are to make ethical decisions, we need to recognize such blind spots in ourselves as our failure to view our own immoral actions objectively and our tendency to act based on how we want to behave rather than on how we should.---Susan Schwartz, Montreal GazetteBlind Spots is a good book. It tells a story in a clear and compelling fashion, which is what a book is for. The story is that we often act unethically, not because were faced with ethical questions and decide to pick the bad option, but because we fail to see that there is an ethical issue at all. Neuroskeptic blogIf you want to be an ethical person or organization and are sometimes left nonplussed by the unethical behavior that still ensues nonetheless, then this is the right book t...

-Titulo Original : The Code Of Capital How The Law Creates Wealth And Inequality-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Almost anybody who reads the book will benefit; a must-read for corporate lawyers, investment bankers, capital providers. Rahul Saikia, Financial TimesNothing less than a crisis theory of law. Adam Tooze, New York Review of BooksA fascinating book that demonstrates how the rights of capital have been entrenched in the international legal system. The Code of Capital opens the way for a thoughtful discussion about the treaties on capital flows and privileges that need to be rewritten. A must-read. Thomas Piketty, author of Capital and IdeologyA thought-provoking read, written in language non-lawyers will be able to grasp. Business and Management A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthWhat is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, capital is created and why this little-known activity is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else. A powerful new way of thinking about one of the most pernicious problems of our time, The Code of Capital explores the various ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are selectively coded to protect and reproduce private wealth. This provocative book paints a troubling portrait of the pervasive global nature of the code, the people who shape it, and the governments that enforce it. Review One of the Financial Times Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of the Financial Times Readers Best Books of 2019One of Business Insiders Richard Felonis best books of 2019 on how we can rethink todays capitalism and improve the economyA Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019 About the Author Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. Her books include Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World. Twitter @KatharinaPisto...

-Titulo Original : The Case Against Education Why The Education System Is A Waste Of Time And Money-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of Tyler Cowens Best Non-Fiction Books of 2018One of Bloomberg Opinions Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 (Stephen L. Carter)Bryan Caplan raises an important question in [his] controversial new book, The Case Against Education. How much of the benefits of a degree comes from the skills you acquire in studying for it? And how much from the piece of paper at the end - what your degree certificate signals to employers about the skills and attributes you might have had long before you filled in a unviersity application form?---Sonia Sodha, The GuardianWould-be students and their parents are rethinking the assumption that a good life is impossible without an expensive degree--not to mention the chase for college admission that begins at kindergarten if not before. [This new book] may help to let out a little more air.---Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street JournalYou probably won’t agree with everything he says . . . but his broadside is worth considering carefully given that the U.S. spends $1 trillion or so a year on education at all levels, more than the budget for defense.---Peter Coy, Bloomberg BusinessweekIt is an excellent book, on an important topic. Beyond such cheap talk, I offer the costly signal of having based an entire chapter of our new book on his book. That’s how good and important I think it is. . . . Caplan offers plausible evidence that school functions to let students show employers that they are smart, conscientious, and conformist. And surely this is in fact a big part of what is going on.---Robin Hanson, Overcoming BiasA book that America has needed for a long time. If we ever reach a turning point where most of us reject the idea that government should mandate and subsidize certain kinds of education, Bryan Caplan will have a lot to do with it.---George Leef, ForbesEconomist Bryan Caplan of George Mason University has crunched the data for years from every angle and argues devastatingly . . . that college is, for many of those who go there, a boondoggle.---Kyle Smith, National Review OnlineExcellent argument by Bryan Caplan, but missed something central: convexity of trial-and-error & heuristic learning.---Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Its like the case against parentings role in shaping children: I dont want to believe it, but the data force you take it seriously. Good book.---Charles Murray, Like most fascinating authors, Caplan, too, has scrumptious contradictions. . . . Whatever the truth is, this book is recommended to parents, high school teachers, and college professors for gaining valuable insights into the dynamics of ‘useless’ education.---L. Ali Khan, NY Journal of Books[Caplan] is also frequently infuriating. But when he is right, he is very right. The Case Against Education, a book 10 years in the making, is a case of Caplan being right.---Charles Fain Lehman, Washington Free BeaconThe Case Against Education lays the groundwork for readers to think anew about education, what it does and ought to do, what place it holds and ought to hold in American society. It ought to be a wake-up call for all Americans, especially those who seek to champion ‘education’ without explaining why it’s a worthy cause.---Ian Lindquis, The Weekly StandardCaplan delivers a tightly knit, compelling indictment of the vastly inflated, scandalously over-priced and often socially deleterious Ponzi scheme that American higher education has become.---Aram Bakshian Jr., Washington TimesHis words might be hard to digest. But with dismal school performance and achievement year after year, it’s worth challenging the assumptions we make about the education systems that now envelop childhood.---Kaitlyn Buss, Detroit NewsThe Case Against Education is a brilliant book that you should read, though you’ll probably reject its conclusions without really considering them.---Jake Seliger, [Caplan’s] evidence, trends and intuition suggest he has an important point.---Ryan Bourne, The Telegraph...

-Titulo Original : Radical Markets Uprooting Capitalism And Democracy For A Just Society-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review A brilliant, provocative work.--Jason Furman, former chairman of President Obamas Council of Economic AdvisersA must-read.--Carol Massar, Bloomberg RadioRefreshing and welcome in its willingness to question received wisdom.--The EconomistThis is free market thinking but not as we know it.--Diane Coyle, Prospect Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame todays economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier as well as a new afterword by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, this provocative book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone. It shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant nineteenth-century spirit of liberal reform and lead to greater equality, prosperity, and cooperation.Only by radically expanding the scope of markets can we reduce inequality, restore robust economic growth, and resolve political conflicts. But to do that, we must replace our most sacred institutions with truly free and open competition Radical Markets shows how. Review Refreshing and welcome in its willingness to question received wisdom. The EconomistThis is free market thinking but not as we know it. Diane Coyle, ProspectA brilliant, provocative work. Jason Furman, former chairman of President Obamas Council of Economic AdvisersA must-read. Carol Massar, Bloomberg Radio From the Back Cover I have always been motivated to find ways to unite the power of technology and markets with the goal of creating a more egalitarian society, and the authors of this book offer an exploration of these apparently contradictory strands.--Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Perhaps the most ambitious attempt to rethink democracy and markets since Milton Friedman. Twenty years from now this just might be the book people are talking about. The writing is excellent, with great examples and historical detail. I admire the ambition and willingness to experiment, a rare thing in economics these days. It just might help launch a new branch of political economy.--Kenneth S. Rogoff, author of The Curse of Cash One of the most exciting books in the social sciences published in the past several years. Very original, using a consistent ideological approach, and intellectually compelling.--Branko Milanovic, author of Global InequalityRadical Markets thinks big and builds daring proposals, all on a unified theme: the need for maintaining competition and eliciting decentralized information, whose neglect led to the demise of planned economies. Whether you are convinced by the specific proposals or not, your confidence in your worldview may well be shattered by the depth and originality of the analysis.--Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and author of Economics for the Common GoodIn our difficult times, with mounting anxieties over migration, global inequality, and the cohesiveness of public culture, many are inclined to reject market-based solutions as heartless and elitist. Eric Posner and Glen Weyl argue that market-based ideas of a radically new sort (though based on neglected insights from the past) have the power to create greater equality and reciprocity. Counterintuitive and fascinating, this book will be an essential part of the debate about global issues going forward.--Martha C. Nussbaum, University of ChicagoI have always been motivated to find ways to unite the power of technology and markets with the goal of creating a more egalitarian society, and the authors of this book offer an exploration of these apparently contradictory strands.--Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer...

-Titulo Original : Animal Spirits How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, And Why It Matters For Global Capitalism-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review George A. Akerlof, Co-Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in EconomicsRobert J. Shiller, Co-Winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWinner of the 2009 International Book Award, getAbstractCo-Winner of the 2010 Silver Medal Book Award in Entrepreneurship, Axiom BusinessCo-Winner of the 2010 Robert Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology, American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2009 Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security, TIAA-CREFWinner of the 2009 Finance Book of the Year, CBN (China Business News) Financial Value RankingShortlisted for the 2009 Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times and Goldman SachsFeatured on the Books of the Year list, Financial Times (FT )Listed on Bloomberg in a review by James Pressley as two of our favorite financial-crisis books this yearAkerlof and Shiller are the first to try to rework economic theory for our times. The effort itself makes their book a milestone.---Louis Uchitelle, New York Times Book ReviewThere is barely a page of Animal Spirits without a fascinating fact or insight.---John Lanchester, New YorkerAkerlof and Shiller succeed, too, in demonstrating that conventional macroeconomic analyses often fail because they omit not just readily observable facts like unemployment and institutions such as credit markets but also harder-to-document behavioral patterns that fall within the authors notion of animal spirits. Confidence plainly matters, and so does the absence of it. When the public mood swings from exuberance to anxiety, or even fear, the effect on asset prices as well as on economic activity outside the financial sector can be large.---Benjamin M. Friedman, New York Review of BooksTwo of the most creative and respected economic thinkers currently at work, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, . . . [have written] a fine book at exactly the right time.---Clive Crook, Financial TimesA truly innovative and bold work. . . . At a time when plummeting confidence is dragging down the market and the economy, the authors focus on the psychological aspect of economics is incredibly important.---Michael Mandel, BusinessWeekAnimal Spirits [is] . . . the new must-read in Obamaworld.---Michael Grunwald, Time[Animal Spirits] really applies to all the big areas where we need change.---Peter Orszag, Obama budget director (quoted from, TimeWhite House Budget Director Peter Orszag is a numbers guy, a propeller head as President Obama would say. But as David Von Drehle and I write in this weeks print version of Time, Orszag has been spending his time recently reading not about spreadsheets, but about psychology. In particular, he has been reading a new book by the economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller called Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism. . . . We are, it turns out, slaves to the Animal Spirits. They have brought us to our knees. And now they are the only things that can save us.---Michael Scherer, Time s SwamplandIn their new book, two of the most creative and respected economic thinkers currently at work, George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, argue that the key is to recover Keyness insight about animal spirits--the attitudes and ideas that guide economic action. The orthodoxy needs to be rebuilt, and bringing these psychological factors into the core of economics is the way to do it. . . . The connections between their thinking on the limits to conventional economics and the issues thrown up by the breakdown are plain, even if they were unable to make every link explicit. Even more than Akerlof and Shiller could have hoped, therefore, it is a fine book at exactly the right time. . . . Animal Spirits carries its ambition lightly--but is ambitious nonetheless. Economists will see it as a kind of manifesto.---Clive Crook, Financial TimesAn influential Democrat who was also one of t...

-Titulo Original : The Federal Reserve And The Financial Crisis-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of China Business News’ Financial Books of the Year for 2014Anyone interested in a primer on recent financial history will likely find Bernankes book to be worthwhile reading. Publishers WeeklyThe lectures are consistently lucid and informal . . . and above all intelligent and interesting. . . . [I]t would be difficult to find a better short and not very technical account of what went wrong, and of how the Fed (and the Treasury) managed to keep it from getting much worse.---Robert Solow, New RepublicReaders who are not fans of the Fed chairman and his Keynesian, fiat-money policies should find as much of interest here as those who are; its the sort of primary-source book that investors will scrutinize, politicians will seize on, pundits will plunder and generations of scholars will analyse. . . . [The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis] brings what Bernanke said in the classroom to a vastly larger audience; now, its up to the readers of varying political and economic persuasions to make what they will of his behind-the-scenes account.---Alan Wallace, Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThis book is, in short, not just an excellent guide to the Fed and its response to the financial crisis, but also constitutes an important document of its time, a reflection that central banks can do some very effective short-term anti-crisis measures, but they cannot be miracle workers.---Harold James, Central Banking JournalThe lectures, and Bernankes answers to students questions, are uniformly erudite, elegant and concise. Perhaps, the most arresting aspect of the lectures is the fascinating insight they provide into the thinking and motivation of the worlds most powerful central banker.---Selwyn Cornish, Economic RecordThe author examines what the Federal Reserve was intended to accomplish, how it performed its statutory task as it evolved over time and the special functions of the lender-of-last-resort that have been called upon during the financial crisis. These lectures provide a useful primer on matters not often presented in such a comprehensive or unequivocal way. Bernankes reputation is often identified with his expertise on the Great Depression. Here, he presents himself differently, as a practitioner of central banking. . . . A great introduction to the functioning of central banking for general readers. Kirkus ReviewsThis important book deserves to be read widely both because Bernanke admirably explains the Fed and its actions and because his authorship provides a window into his thinking as one of the worlds most powerful financial figures. Library JournalIn March 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, gave four guest lectures at George Washington University. This slim volume--at only 130 pages, comfortably finished in the time it takes to watch a TV movie--comprises those lectures apparently almost verbatim, with a few astute audience questions and answers at the end of each. . . . This is easy reading. Financial WorldThe Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis . . . provides a useful tutorial on the workings of an institution in its most difficult hour. For that reason alone, it makes an important contribution to the historical record.---Marc L. Ross, Financial Analysts Journal[T]his is a useful and highly approachable take on the history of central banking and the recent financial crisis. Its worth a read, if only to get a first-person narrative from one of the most important figures in global capital markets.---Carrie Sheffield, Washington Times[F]or those interested in why we have central banks, what led to the 2008 financial crisis and how the nations top officials reacted, there isnt a better primer. . . . This is no boring textbook, despite the occasional chart. Bernanke presents a clear and engaging narrative of the economic history of the United States, while also tackling a few of the perennial anti-Fed bugaboos. . . . One of the books most import...

-Titulo Original : Game Theory For Applied Economists-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Lucid and detailed introduction to game theory in an explicitly economic context. Cooperative Economic News Service This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal arguments about abstract games play a minor role. The applications illustrate the process of model building--of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal game-theoretic problem to be analyzed. Also, the variety of applications shows that similar issues arise in different areas of economics, and that the same game-theoretic tools can be applied in each setting. In order to emphasize the broad potential scope of the theory, conventional applications from industrial organization have been largely replaced by applications from labor, macro, and other applied fields in economics. The book covers four classes of games, and four corresponding notions of equilibrium: static games of complete information and Nash equilibrium, dynamic games of complete information and subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium, static games of incomplete information and Bayesian Nash equilibrium, and dynamic games of incomplete information and perfect Bayesian equilibrium. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Game Theory for Applied EconomistsBy Robert GibbonsPrinceton University PressCopyright © 1992 Princeton University PressAll right reserved.ISBN: 978-0-691-00395-5Contents1 Static Games of Complete Information.................................................11.1 Basic Theory: Normal-Form Games and Nash Equilibrium...............................21.1.A Normal-Form Representation of Games..............................................21.1.B Iterated Elimination of Strictly Dominated Strategies............................41.1.C Motivation and Definition of Nash Equilibrium....................................81.2 Applications.......................................................................141.2.A Cournot Model of Duopoly.........................................................141.2.B Bertrand Model of Duopoly........................................................211.2.C Final-Offer Arbitration..........................................................221.2.D The Problem of the Commons.......................................................271.3 Advanced Theory: Mixed Strategies and Existence of Equilibrium.....................291.3.A Mixed Strategies.................................................................291.3.B Existence of Nash Equilibrium....................................................331.4 Further Reading....................................................................481.5 Problems...........................................................................481.6 References.........................................................................512 Dynamic Games of Complete Information................................................552.1 Dynamic Games of Complete and Perfect Information..................................572.1.A Theory: Backwards Induction......................................................572.1.B Stackelberg Model of Duopoly.....................................................612.1.C Wages and Employment in a Unionized Firm.........................................642.1.D Sequential Bargaining............................................................682.2 Two-Stage Games of Complete but Imperfect Information..............................712.2.A Theory: Subgame Perfection.......................................................712.2.B Bank Runs...............

-Titulo Original : Narrative Economics How Stories Go Viral And Drive Major Economic Events-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Finalist for the Best Book Published by a University Press, Digital Book World AwardsLonglisted for the getAbstract International Book AwardWinner of the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American PublishersCo-Winner of the Gold Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book AwardsOne of the Financial Times Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of Prospects Best Economics Books of 2019An Economist Book of the YearMind-opening Business Books of 2019One of Mints Books of 2019 You Should Not MissA Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019Shiller is one of the world’s most original economists. . . . Stories allow human beings to make sense of an uncertain world. But they also drive economies into booms and busts. Armed with this understanding, we gain a far richer understanding of how economies behave.---Martin Wolf, Financial TimesShiller’s thorough discussion and many examples are certainly convincing as to the importance of narratives in individual economic decision-making and aggregate economic phenomena.---Sonia Jaffe, ScienceEconomics is the study of people at work, but where are the people? Many a learned economist forgets all about them. Not Robert Shiller, the author of Narrative Economics, who believes that volatile human emotion counts for more than you think in the ostensibly objective valuation of stocks, bonds and buildings.---James Grant, Wall Street Journal[Shiller] explores how the public’s subjective perceptions can shape economic trends. . . . A sensible and welcome escape from the dead hand of mathematical models of economics. The EconomistA magisterial account . . . . In some ways . . . a bigger challenge to the foundations of economics than behavioral economics.---Steve Denning, ForbesThe idea that human behaviour can exert its own influence in the market is something that most traders wouldbuy into. . . . But in Narrative Economics, Shiller goes much broader and deeper, looking at how the stories we tell ourselves about the world drive our behaviour. . . . Economists, he argues, need to study this if they are to have any hope of doing a better job than they have in the past of predicting major events . . . and how people react to them.---Rana Foroohar, Financial TimesProvocative . . . . Especially timely in the current social media-obsessed era, because narratives both real and false can spread globally with just a few swipes, affecting not just economic activity, but ultimately the balance of geopolitical power.---Matt Schifrin, ForbesMany economists argue that the US housing market and economy are still on solid foundations, but ignoreShiller’s warnings at your peril. He rarely gets it wrong.---Tom Rees, The TelegraphExcellent.---Gillian Tett, Financial Times[Shiller aims] to identify the enduring narratives that influence the way we think about the economy, and may influence our patterns of spending and saving, and therefore become self-fulfilling prophecies . . . the results are fascinating, and sometimes startling.---Howard Davies, ProspectShiller argues forcefully.---Chris Johns, Irish TimesAny given scenario can allow for multiple narratives, both actual and potential. The question is why some prove more compelling than others. Shiller offers a range of answers, starting with the most obvious: a narrative is compelling when it is engaging and well expressed. Because his book is very well written, Shiller himself has satisfied this criterion.---Barry Eichengreen, Project SyndicateShiller has none of the salesman-like bluster of the stock pickers clamouring for attention on businessTV news . . . . As it is, he has only 40-odd years of being freakishly right about things. It will have to do.---David Morris, Financial NewsHighly readable, compelling.---Steve Levine, MediumThe book is . . . good fun to read. It is full of amusing and apposite quotations, and interesting detail.---Charles Goodhart, Central Banking JournalShiller’s book is a spectacul...

-Titulo Original : The Rise And Fall Of American Growth The U.s. Standard Of Living Since The Civil War (the Princeton Economic History Of The Western World, 60)-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American PublishersWinner of the 2017 Excellence in Financial Journalism Book Award, New York State Society of Certified Public AccountantsA New York Times BestsellerOne of the StrategyBusiness Best Business Books 2016 in Economy#36 on Bloomberg’s 50 Most Influential List 2016One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2016One of Financial Times (FT ) Best Economics Books of 2016One of The Economist’s Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 in HistoryOne of Bloomberg View’s “Five Books to Change Conservatives’ Minds,” chosen by Cass SunsteinOne of Bloomberg View’s Great History Books of 2016One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016One of The Wall Street Journal’s “The 20 Books That Defined Our Year” 2016One of Foreign Affairs’ Editors’ Picks 2016One of the Washington Post’s Best Economics Books 2016One of The NewYorker Page-Turner blog’s “The Books We Loved in 2016”Shortlisted for the 2016 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill UniversityThe Rise and Fall of American Growth . . . is the Thomas Piketty-esque economic must read of the year.---Rana Foroohar, TimeThis is a book well worth reading--a magisterial combination of deep technological history, vivid portraits of daily life over the past six generations and careful economic analysis. . . . [The Rise and Fall of American Growth] will challenge your views about the future; [and] it will definitely transform how you see the past.---Paul Krugman, New York Times Book Review[An] authoritative examination of innovation through the ages.---Neil Irwin, New York TimesRobert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries. . . . The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period. . . . If you want to understand our history and the economic dilemmas faced by the nation today, you can spend many a fruitful hour reading Gordons landmark study.---William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books[The Rise and Fall of American Growth] is full of wonder for the miraculous things that America has accomplished.---Edward Glaeser, Wall Street JournalMr. Gordon uses exhaustive historic data to buttress his thesis.---Greg Ip, Wall Street JournalA masterful study to be read and reread by anyone interested in todays political economy. KirkusNormally, these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about. But Gordons conclusion offers some admirably definitive policy advice.---Matthew Yglesias, VoxMagnificent. . . . Gordon presents his case. . . with great style and panache, supporting his argument with vivid examples as well as econometric data. . . . Even if history changes direction. . . this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism. EconomistEvery presidential candidate should be asked what policies he or she would offer to increase the pace of U.S. productivity growth and to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers in the economy. Bob Gordons list is a good place to start.---David Wessel, WSJ s, Think Tank[W]hat may be the years most important book on economics has already been published. . . . What Gordon has provided is not a rejection of technology but a sobering reminder of its limits.---Robert Samuelson, Washington PostRobert Gordons The Rise and Fall of Ame...

-Titulo Original : The Code Of Capital How The Law Creates Wealth And Inequality-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review One of the Financial Times Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of the Financial Times Readers Best Books of 2019One of Business Insiders Richard Felonis best books of 2019 on how we can rethink todays capitalism and improve the economyA Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019The result is nothing less than a crisis theory of law. Law as it currently functions is, for Pistor, constitutive of the order that creates and perpetuates inequality, opacity, dysfunction, and crisis, and ultimately puts at risk the legitimacy of the rule of law as such.---Adam Tooze, New York Review of BooksAlmost anybody who reads this book will benefit; a must-read for corporate lawyers, investment bankers, capital providers.---Rahul Saikia, Financial TimesThose of us concerned with inequality should be focusing a great deal of attention on the basics of valuation, which means looking hard at the way law makes money.---Roy Kreitner, LPEblogThe wealth drawn from both the digital darkness and the dark pools of Wall Street exists only by virtue of the law’s encasement. . . . [Pistors] metaphors allow us to see how, by ceding democratic control of law, we’ve depoliticized critical questions of self-governance, preserving mobility for some and blocking it for others.---Quinn Slobodian, Boston ReviewSo much discussion around wealth and inequality involves gawking at statistics people don’t understand. Katharina Pistor offers a fascinating argument as to why inequality is increasing, and does so without having to construct class identities, as Marxists feel compelled to do, or to make heroic assumptions about the rationality of human beings, as rational choice theorists would have it.---David Murphy, Open Letters ReviewThrough extensive case studies, Pistor demonstrates that no one deliberately set out to construct the ‘empire of law.’ Rather, it is the result of a decentralized, unplanned process in which individual private lawyers helped individual clients protect their assets through the use of pre-existing legal constructs.---Nouriel Roubini, Project SyndicateThe Code of Capital is a welcome interdisciplinary contribution which attaches fresh dimensions to debates on the political economy of wealth and inequality. . . .it is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to grapple with the formidable nature of global capital.---Juvaria Jafri, LSE US CentrePistor has exploded the belief of most people that financial instruments traded across the world are creatures of law of sovereign states and are secure . . . . [The Code of Capital is] a truly remarkable book bringing out clearly one of the major causes of periodic financial crisis.---Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environment StudiesIn possibly one of the most important non-fiction books of the decade, Pistor shines a clear and sharp light on how legal codes - increasingly determined in private law offices in New York and London - shape the contours of economic activity, ownership, and control under contemporary global capitalism---Jayati Ghosh, Project SyndicateA thought-provoking read. Business & Management A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else.In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively “codes” certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital and lawyers are the keepers of the code. P...

-Titulo Original : Economics For The Common Good-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review “Required reading for anybody who wants to understand today’s economy.” Olivier Blanchard, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund“A constructive critique of economists with a strong defence of the subject they study.” Martin Sandbu, Financial Times“An ambitious yet accessible summary of [Tirole’s] ideas on the proper role of economists and the value of their ideas in informing government, business and social life. . . . Tirole has a patient, explanatory style.” Philip Delves Broughton, Wall Street Journal“Explains in straightforward language what academic economists do, how they think about society and human behavior, and what advice they tend to offer governments about some of the biggest challenges they face.” Foreign Affairs“Spells out the usefulness of rigorous economic thinking for society in deep, yet accessible, language. . . . [A] great book, rich with insights.” Markus Brunnermeier, Finance & Development From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from his own research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect more deeply on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics can help us improve the shared lot of societies and humanity as a whole. To show how, Tirole shares his insights on a broad range of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation. Compelling and accessible, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society. Review Jean Tirole, Winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in EconomicsWinner of the 2018 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business SchoolLonglisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardOne of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017One of the Times Higher Education Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Sir Anton MuscatelliOne of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by J. Bradford DeLong)One of Financial Times (FT ) Best Books of 2017: EconomicsOne of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: Monopolies, Sexism and Economics”One of Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018 About the Author Jean Tirole, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, is chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

-Titulo Original : The Fire Is Upon Us James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., And The Debate Over Race In America-Fabricante : Princeton University Press-Descripcion Original: Review A gripping snapshot of a country riven by injustice yet anxious about radical change. New York Times Book ReviewA great read. Whoopi Goldberg, The View“Wonderfully accessible.” Gabrielle Bellot, The Atlantic“Rigorous and even-handed. . . . The contemporary reader is likely to experience surprise at some of Buckley’s opinions, and to delight at reminders of Baldwin in his heyday.” James Campbell, Wall Street JournalAmbitious and interesting . . . a genealogy of how white supremacy and attempts to slay it have stayed at the center of American politics for more than half a century, up to and including our Trumpian present. Bill V. Mullen, Los Angeles Review of Books How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates Americas racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and Americas most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro, and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccolas The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, and how the debate and the decades-long clash between the men illuminates the racial divide that continues to haunt America today. Review Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book AwardsShortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyShortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American HistoryOne of Whoopi Goldbergs Favorite Things, ABC The ViewNew York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceChicago Tribune writer John Warners Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the WorldOne of The Undefeateds 25 Cant Miss Books of 2019One of The Progressives Favorite Books of 2019One of LitHubs 50 Favorite Books of the YearOne of Inside Higher Eds Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays About the Author Nicholas Buccola is the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Twitter @buccola_nic...