Producing security

multinational corporations, globalization, and the changing calculus of conflict

Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and "Do trade flows influence security?" as synonymous. In "Producing Security", Stephen Brooks ...

Real analysis with economic applications

There are many mathematics textbooks on real analysis, but they focus on topics not readily helpful for studying economic theory or they are inaccessible to most graduate students of economics. Real Analysis with Economic Applications aims to fill this gap by providing an ideal textbook ...

Identity and religion in Palestine

the struggle between islamism and secularism in the occupied territories

This remarkable book examines how the Islamist movement and its competition with secular-nationalist factions have transformed the identities of ordinary Palestinians since the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, of the late 1980s. Drawing upon his years living in the region and more than eighty in-depth ...

Before the deluge

public debt, inequality, and the intellectual origins of the French Revolution

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Apres moi, le deluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the ...

What they think of us

international perceptions of the United States since 9/11

It has never been more important for Americans to understand why the world both hates and loves the United States. In "What They Think of Us", a remarkable group of writers from the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Latin America describes the world's profoundly ...

Political foundations of judicial supremacy

the presidency, the Supreme Court, and constitutional leadership in U.S. history

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution? The justices on the Supreme Court certainly seem to think so-and their critics say that this position threatens democracy. But Keith Whittington argues that the Court's justices have not ...

Econometric modeling

a likelihood approach

Econometric Modeling provides a new and stimulating introduction to econometrics, focusing on modeling. The key issue confronting empirical economics is to establish sustainable relationships that are both supported by data and interpretable from economic theory. The unified likelihood-based approach of this book gives students the ...

Complex adaptive systems

an introduction to computational models of social life

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems - whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies - present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the ...

Clausewitz and the State

the man, his theories, and his times

Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical ...

The essential John Nash

When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography A Beautiful Mind, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man ...

Buddhism in practice

This anthology, first published in 1995, illustrates the vast scope of Buddhist practice in Asia, past and present. Re- released now in a slimmer but still extensive edition, "Buddhism in Practice" presents a selection of thirty-five translated texts - each preceded by a substantial introduction by ...

Religions of Tibet in practice

Originally published in 1997, "Religions of Tibet in Practice" is a landmark work - the first major anthology on the topic ever produced. This new edition - abridged to further facilitate course use - presents a stunning array of works that together offer an unparalleled view of the ...

In gold we trust

social capital and economic change in the italian jewelry towns

"In Gold We Trust" is a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the world in the production of gold jewelry - even though they had virtually no jewelry industry less than a century before ...

Snipers, shills, and sharks

eBay and human behavior

Every day on eBay, millions of people buy and sell a vast array of goods, from rare collectibles and antiques to used cars and celebrity memorabilia. The internet auction site is remarkably easy to use, which accounts in part for its huge popularity. But how ...

Roman eyes

visuality and subjectivity in art and text

In "Roman Eyes", Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety ...

Behavioral economics and its application

In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics - finance. Peter Diamond ...

The making of an economist, redux

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic "The Making of an Economist", this book shows what is happening in elite ...

How China grows

investment, finance and reform

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty- five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is ...

Theory of games and economic behavior

This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together blossomed, in 1944, when Princeton University Press published "Theory of Games ...

Principles of economic sociology

The last fifteen years have witnessed an explosion in the popularity, creativity, and productiveness of economic sociology, an approach that traces its roots back to Max Weber. This important new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of economic sociology. It also advances the field ...

The purchase of intimacy

In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In "The Purchase of Intimacy ...

What democracy is for

on freedom and moral government

In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals - the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according ...