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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
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
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
8 Book

Zombie Economics

How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
John Quiggin
Princeton UP, 2010
9 Report

The Squam Lake Report

Fixing the Financial System
The Squam Lake Group
Princeton UP, 2010
9 Book

Fault Lines

How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram G. Rajan
Princeton UP, 2010
9 Book
Jerry Z. Muller
Princeton UP, 2010
8 Book
David Alan Grier
Princeton UP, 2007
9 Book

Scroogenomics

Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
Joel Waldfogel
Princeton UP, 2009
8 Book

This Time Is Different

Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
Princeton UP, 2009
7 Book

When I'm Sixty-Four

The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
Teresa Ghilarducci
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

Plight of the Fortune Tellers

Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
Riccardo Rebonato
Princeton UP, 2007
8 Book

Market Rebels

How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations
Hayagreeva Rao
Princeton UP, 2008
9 Book

Animal Spirits

How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2009
8 Book

Power and Plenty

Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke
Princeton UP, 2007
7 Book

The Lesser Evil

Political Ethics in an Age of Terror
Michael Ignatieff
Princeton UP, 2004
9 Book

The Subprime Solution

How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2008
6 Book

The Red Queen among Organizations

How Competitiveness Evolves
William P. Barnett
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Rakesh Khurana
Princeton UP, 2007
8 Book

Lawlessness and Economics

Alternative Modes of Governance
Avinash K. Dixit
Princeton UP, 2004
7 Book

The Soulful Science

What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
Diane Coyle
Princeton UP, 2007
10 Book

A Farewell to Alms

A Brief Economic History of the World
Gregory Clark
Princeton UP, 2007
9 Book

The Myth of the Rational Voter

Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan
Princeton UP, 2007
8 Book

The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
Scott E. Page
Princeton UP, 2007
8 Book

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street

The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America`s Monetary Supremacy
William L. Silber
Princeton UP, 2006
8 Book

Talking Prices

Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Olav Velthuis
Princeton UP, 2005
8 Book

Globalization

A Short History
Jürgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson
Princeton UP, 2005
8 Book

Expert Political Judgment

How Good is It? How Can We Know?
Philip E. Tetlock
Princeton UP, 2005
9 Book

The Box

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
Princeton UP, 2006
9 Book

The German Economy

Beyond the Social Market
Horst Siebert
Princeton UP, 2005
8 Book

Organizing America

Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Charles Perrow
Princeton UP, 2002
8 Book

The First Crash

Lessons from the South Sea Bubble
Richard Dale
Princeton UP, 2004
7 Book

Happiness and Economics

How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being
Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
Princeton UP, 2001
8 Book

Universities in the Marketplace

The Commercialization of Higher Education
Derek Bok
Princeton UP, 2003
8 Book
Richard H. Thaler
Princeton UP, 1994
9 Book

The Company of Strangers

A Natural History of Economic Life
Paul Seabright
Princeton UP, 2004
8 Book

Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies

Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda
Princeton UP, 2004
8 Book

Luxury Fever

Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess
Robert H. Frank
Princeton UP, 1999
7 Book

More Equal than Others

America from Nixon to the New Century
Godfrey Hodgson
Princeton UP, 2004
8 Book
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Princeton UP, 2004
8 Book

What Price the Moral High Ground?

Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments
Robert H. Frank
Princeton UP, 2003
6 Book

The New Division of Labor

How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market
Frank Levy and Richard J. Mumane
Princeton UP, 2004
9 Book

The Free-Market Innovation Machine

Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
William J. Baumol
Princeton UP, 2002
7 Book

Why Stock Markets Crash

Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Didier Sornette
Princeton UP, 2003
8 Book
Thomas J. Sargent and Francois R. Velde
Princeton UP, 2002
8 Book

Women Don't Ask

Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Princeton UP, 2003
6 Book
Benjamin J. Cohen
Princeton UP, 2003
8 Book

Islam

A Guide for Jews and Christians
F.E. Peters
Princeton UP, 2003
10 Book

The New Financial Order

Risk in the Twenty-First Century
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2003
8 Book

Hubbert's Peak

The Impending World Oil Shortage
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Princeton UP, 2001
9 Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Rakesh Khurana
Princeton UP, 2002
9 Book
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton UP, 2005