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  • Fragile by Design

    The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit

    by Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen Haber ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political and banking ... Read more

    Was $29.59 USD Now $21.59 USD

  • Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America

    Essays in Policy, History, and Political Economy

    by Stephen Haber ...
    Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America offers a new contribution to the literature on institutions and growth through the analysis of historical cases of institutional change and economic growth in Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Read more

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  • Crony Capitalism and Economic Growth in Latin America

    Theory and Evidence

    by Stephen Haber ...
    Crony capitalism systems—in which those close to political policymakers receive favors allowing them to earn returns far above market value—are a fundamental feature of the economies of Latin America. Haber and his expert contributors draw from case studies in Mexico, Brazil, and other countries around the world to examine the causes and consequences of cronyism. ... Read more

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  • The Battle over Patents

    History and Politics of Innovation

    Edited by Stephen H. Haber, Naomi R. Lamoreaux ...
    An examination of how the patent system works, imperfections and all, to incentivize innovation Do patents facilitate or frustrate innovation? Lawyers, economists, and politicians who have staked out strong positions in this debate often attempt to validate their claims by invoking the historical record--but they frequently get the history wrong. The Battle over Patents gets it right. Bringing ... Read more

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  • Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom

    by Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Debalina Banerjee, Danilo M. Baylen, Johann Frederick A. Cabbab, Hung-Shu Chen, Deanna Day, Stephen Dudas, Erika Haber0, Christa Catherine Jones1, Emily Murphy2, Mary Napoli3, Audrey Isabel Taylor4, Maria Truglio5, Sara Van den Bossche6, Jean Webb7, Yasemin Yilmaz Yüksek8 ...
    Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce a complex topic, give students a glimpse into a specific culture, or expand the way students think about education and teaching. Global children's literature is particularly useful in language classrooms, education ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • The Son Also Rises

    Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

    by Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, Daniel Diaz Vidal ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over ... Read more

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  • GDP

    A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to changeWhy did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in ... Read more

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  • How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

    An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

    by Russ Roberts ...
    A forgotten book by one of history's greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune.Adam Smith may have become the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that when it came to the behavior of individuals—the way we perceive ourselves, the way we treat others, and the decisions we ... Read more

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  • Shredded

    Inside RBS: The Bank That Broke Britain

    by Ian Fraser ...
    An award-winning journalist details the near-collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland in the late 2000s.For a few brief months in 2007 and 2009, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the largest bank in the world. Then the Edinburgh-based giant—having rapidly grown its footprint to 55 countries and stretched its assets to £2.4 trillion under its hubristic and delinquent former boss Fred Goodwin—crashed to ... Read more

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  • The Age of Oversupply

    Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy

    by Daniel Alpert ...
    The invisible hand of capitalism is broken. Economic and political forces are preventing markets from correcting themselves, and we're now living in an unprecedented age of oversupply.Governments and central banks across the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish or worse. Howdid we get here, and how can advanced nations compete and prosper once ... Read more

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  • After the Music Stopped

    The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

    by Alan S. Blinder ...
    **The New York Times bestseller"Blinder's book deserves its likely place near the top of reading lists about the crisis. It is the best comprehensive history of the episode... A riveting tale." - Financial Times**One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons.Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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