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Digital Dice
Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15821-1
EAN 9780691158211
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice ...
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The Locust and the Bee
Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14696-6
EAN 9780691146966
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different ...
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Egypt after Mubarak
Liberalism, Islam and Democracy in the Arab World
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15804-4
EAN 9780691158044
Which way will Egypt go now that Husni Mubarak's authoritarian regime has been swept from power? Will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Egypt after Mubarak reveals that Egypt's secularists and Islamists may yet navigate a middle path that results in a uniquely Islamic form of ...
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14909-7
EAN 9780691149097
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for ...
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- Princeton, 2013
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PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13430-7
EAN 9780691134307
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The Bankers' New Clothes
What s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
What is wrong with today's banking system? The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. The Bankers' New Clothes examines this claim and the narratives used by bankers, politicians, and regulators ...
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Roosevelt's Lost Alliances
How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War
In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. Roosevelt's Lost Alliances captures this moment and shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the different habits, upbringings, sympathies, and past ...
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Isaiah Berlin
An Interpretation of His Thought
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory.In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the ...
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The Great Rebalancing
Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15868-6
EAN 9780691158686
China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world economies. Debunking popular misconceptions, Pettis shows that severe trade imbalances spurred on ...
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Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to ...
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The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the ...
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Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy
Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 808 páginas
PVP: 43,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15813-6
EAN 9780691158136
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he ...
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No Enchanted Palace
The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian ...
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Game Theory
An introduction
This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise description of rational decision making, and goes on to discuss strategic and extensive form games with complete information, Bayesian games, and extensive form games with imperfect information. ...
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Franz Neumann,; Herbert Marcuse; Otto Kirchheimer
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany
The Frankfurt school contribution to the war effort
During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA. This book brings together their most important intelligence reports on Nazi Germany, most of them published here for the first time.These reports ...
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Worldly Philosopher
The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and ...
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Berlin, Isaih; Hardy, Henry; Ignatieff, Michael
The Hedgehog and the Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Second Edition)
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many ...
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Cicero Tullius, Marcus; Freeman, Philip
How to Run a Country
An ancient guide for modern leaders
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 31,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15657-6
EAN 9780691156576
Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical ...
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