Princeton UP Summaries and Reviews

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8 Book

Economics in America

An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Angus Deaton
Princeton UP, 2023
8 Book

Renewal

From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Princeton UP, 2023
9 Book

Virtual You

How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield
Princeton UP, 2023
9 Book

Work Pray Code

When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
Carolyn Chen
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Book

Viral Justice

How We Grow the World We Want
Ruha Benjamin
Princeton UP, 2022
8 Book

Spin Dictators

The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Book
Carl Gustav Jung
Princeton UP, 1976
8 Book

Thinking like an Economist

How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elizabeth Berman
Princeton UP, 2022
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Why Trust Science?

The University Center for Human Values Series
Naomi Oreskes
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

The Profit Paradox

How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
Jan Eeckhout
Princeton UP, 2021
9 Book

Cogs and Monsters

What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
Diane Coyle
Princeton UP, 2021
9 Book

How Behavior Spreads

The Science of Complex Contagions
Damon Centola
Princeton UP, 2018
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The Spirit of Green

The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
William D. Nordhaus
Princeton UP, 2021
9 Book

The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Katharina Pistor
Princeton UP, 2019
7 Book

Beyond Global Warming

How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
Syukuro Manabe and Anthony J. Broccoli
Princeton UP, 2020
9 Book

Brave New Arctic

The Untold Story of the Melting North
Mark C. Serreze
Princeton UP, 2018
8 Book
Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Princeton UP, 2020
9 Book

The Arab Winter

A Tragedy
Noah Feldman
Princeton UP, 2020
9 Book

A Lot of People Are Saying

The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Nancy Rosenblum
Princeton UP, 2019
7 Book

Not Working

Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
David G. Blanchflower
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

Dark Commerce

How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future
Louise I. Shelley
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

Darkness by Design

The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets
Walter Mattli
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

Radical Markets

Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book

Narrative Economics

How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

Digital Cash

The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
Finn Brunton
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

#Republic

Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
Cass R. Sunstein
Princeton UP, 2017
9 Book

Private Government

How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (The University Center for Human Values Series)
Elizabeth Anderson
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

Adaptive Markets

Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
Andrew W. Lo
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

On the Future

Prospects for Humanity
Martin Rees
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book

Making Up Your Own Mind

Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving
Edward B. Burger
Princeton UP, 2019
9 Book

How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls

Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
David L. Hu
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book

Between Debt and the Devil

Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
Adair Turner
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

How to Clone a Mammoth

The Science of De-Extinction
Beth Shapiro
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book

Straight Talk on Trade

Ideas for a Sane World Economy
Dani Rodrik
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

ISIS

A History
Fawaz A. Gerges
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

Capitalism Without Capital

The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book
Jerry Z. Muller
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book

Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book

Efficiently Inefficient

How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Princeton UP, 2015
8 Book

The Great Leveler

Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Walter Scheidel
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Book

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)
Robert J. Gordon
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book

How to Choose a Leader

Machiavelli’s Advice to Citizens
Maurizio Viroli
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book

Taxing the Rich

A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book
Jason Brennan
Princeton UP, 2016
8 Book

Economic Gangsters

Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel
Princeton UP, 2010
8 Book

The Shape of the New

Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot
Princeton UP, 2015
9 Book

Portfolios of the Poor

How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daryl Collins et al.
Princeton UP, 2010
8 Book

Phishing for Phools

The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2015
9 Book

The Little Big Number

How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It
Dirk Philipsen
Princeton UP, 2015
9 Book

Climate Shock

The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Princeton UP, 2015
9 Book

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

How Human Values Evolve
Ian Morris
Princeton UP, 2015
8 Book

Immigrants

Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain
Princeton UP, 2014
8 Book

Rational Ritual

Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Princeton UP, 2013
8 Book

Beautiful Game Theory

How Soccer Can Help Economics
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta
Princeton UP, 2014
8 Book

Liberty and Security in a Changing World

Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies et al.
Princeton UP, 2013
9 Book

The Butterfly Defect

How Globalization Creates Systemic Risk and What to Do About It
Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan
Princeton UP, 2014
8 Report

Testing Theories of American Politics

Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page
Princeton UP, 2014
7 Book

The Great Rebalancing

Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
Michael Pettis
Princeton UP, 2013
8 Book

Exceptional People

How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Ian Goldin et al.
Princeton UP, 2011
8 Book

The Quest for Prosperity

How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Justin Yifu Lin
Princeton UP, 2012
8 Book

The Bankers’ New Clothes

What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It
Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
Princeton UP, 2013
8 Book

Liberal Leviathan

The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order
G. John Ikenberry
Princeton UP, 2011
8 Book

The Founder's Dilemmas

Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Noam Wasserman
Princeton UP, 2012
9 Book

The Darwin Economy

Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
Robert H. Frank
Princeton UP, 2011
7 Book

The Economics of Enough

How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Diane Coyle
Princeton UP, 2011
7 Book
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2012
8 Book

Identity Economics

How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being
George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
Princeton UP, 2010
7 Book

Banking on the Future

The Fall and Rise of Central Banking
Howard Davies and David Green
Princeton UP, 2010
8 Book

The Great Brain Race

How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Ben Wildavsky
Princeton UP, 2010
7 Book

The Invention of Enterprise

Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
David S. Landes et al.
Princeton UP, 2010