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Ehret takes up the problem of how we discuss Africa in the context of global history, combining results of multiple disciplines. He sheds light on the rich history of technological innovation by African societies―from advances in ceramics to cot[...]A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges[...]Ralph S. J. Koijen, Auteur ; Motohiro Yogo, Auteur | Princeton [États-Unis] : Princeton University Press | 2023Livre
The traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk through products such as life annuities, life insurance, and health insurance. With the decline of private defined benefit plans and government pension plans around the world, insu[...]Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digital creators scram[...]Bénédicte Savoy, Auteur ; Susanne Meyer-Abich, Traducteur | Princeton [États-Unis] : Princeton University Press | 2022Livre
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply imp[...]Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importan[...]NouveautéLuca Peliti, Auteur ; Simone Pigolotti, Auteur | Princeton [États-Unis] : Princeton University Press | 2021Livre
Stochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic concepts for systems ranging in size from a few to hundreds of nanometers, the behavior of which is inherently random due to thermal[...]Linda Babcock, Auteur ; Sara Laschever, Auteur ; Iris Bohnet, Préfacier, etc. | Princeton [États-Unis] : Princeton University Press | 2021Livre
When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were teaching their own courses while female students were always assigned as assistants, her dean said: "More men ask. The women don't ask." Drawing on psychology, sociology, economic[...]An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data.This book is a manifesto for a world in which economics can help us improve the shared lot of societies and humanity as a whole.Economists have long based their forecasts on financial aggregates. Robert Shiller employs such aggregates in his own forecasts, but has famously complemented them with observations about the influence of mass psychology on certain events. This [...]Can the lessons learned from the viral diffusion of diseases be used to improve the spread of beneficial behaviors and innovations? This book examines how changes in societal behavior occur and the ways social networks can be used to influence h[...]The book explores the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment, and discuss how these features make an intangible-rich economy fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. It concludes by presenting three possible scenar[...]This book introduces students to leading theories of portfolio choice, their implications for asset prices, and empirical patterns of risk and return in financial markets. Campbell emphasizes the interplay of theory and evidence, as theorists re[...]The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention. As early as Homer, Greeks were imagining robotic servants, animated stat[...]