Business & Economics Fall 2020
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Business
All about Flowers
Pricing and Revenue Optimization
James Vick’s NineteenthCentury Seed Company Thomas J. Mickey Foreword by Charles A. Birnbaum
Second Edition Robert L. Phillips
February 2021 504pp 9781503610002 £58.00 / $70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 204pp 9780804012294 £20.99 / $26.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers the first introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization. With updates to every chapter, this second edition covers topics such as estimation of priceresponse functions and machine-learning-based price optimization.
Avid flower man James Vick ingrained a nationwide conviction that no home was complete without flowers and transformed the nineteenth-century American mail-order seed business with an pioneering marketing strategy.
The Huawei Model
The Power of Being Divisive
The Rise of China’s Technology Giant Yun Wen
Understanding Negative Social Evaluations Thomas J. Roulet
The Geopolitics of Information November 2020 248pp 9780252085338 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780252043437 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
September 2020 224pp 9781503608207 £33.00 / $40.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Negative social evaluations, such as stigma or the backlash from scandal, are often perceived as harming those to whom they are directed. Thomas Roulet challenges this idea, showing how negative evaluations can prove strategically beneficial for individuals and organizations alike.
Economics
In 2019, the United States’ trade war with China expanded to blacklist the tech titan Huawei. Yun Wen uses the Huawei story as a microcosm to understand China’s evolving digital economy and the global rise of the nation’s corporate power. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Capitalism Contested
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment
The New Deal and Its Legacies Edited by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein & Jean Christian Vinel
Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia Angie Ngoc Tran
December 2020 360pp 3 charts, 1 table 9780812252620 £36.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Studies of World Migrations October 2020 296pp 9780252085277 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252043369 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Arguing that the New Deal order is a product of a particular set of political institutions, social movements, ideological propensities, and legislative initiatives, this book analyses the degree to which that order persists.
Explores why nations export and import migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves within the system and by bypassing it entirely. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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Globalizing the Caribbean
Good Governance in Economic Development
Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class Jeb Sprague
International Norms and Chinese Perspectives Edited by Sarah Biddulph & Ljiljana Biuković
August 2020 346pp 9781439916551 £24.99 / $32.95 NIP TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization August 2020 394pp 4 tables 9780774861939 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
A probing account of the Caribbean’s experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Excludes Asia Pacific
Insights into the global and national implications of international good governance rules. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Implementing City Sustainability
Narratives of Debt
Edited by Peter Szendy
November 2020 190pp 2 illus. 9781478011590 £10.99 / $14.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Overcoming Administrative Silos to Achieve Functional Collective Action Rachel M. Krause, Christopher Hawkins & Richard C. Felock
The authors approach the intertwining of debt and narration from the perspectives of continental philosophy, international law, the history of slavery, comparative literature, feminist critique, and more.
January 2021 276pp 9781439919217 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9781439919200 £88.00 / $110.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
How city governments pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being. Excludes Asia Pacific
Normalized Financial Wrongdoing
How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality Harland Prechel
November 2020 368pp 9781503614451 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503602380 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reimagining Money
Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution Sibel Kusimba
Culture and Economic Life January 2021 232pp 9781503614413 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503613515 £77.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sibel Kusimba describes the rise of M-Pesa, and offers a rich portrait of how this technology Examines how social structural arrangements that changes the economic and social landscape, extended corporate property rights and increased allowing users to create webs of relationships as managerial control facilitated misconduct that they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share contributed to high levels of inequality. digital money in user-built networks.
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Revolution Around the Corner
Reworking Japan
Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism Nana Okura Gagné
Voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party Edited by José E. Velázquez, Carmen V. Rivera & Andres Torres
January 2021 324pp 9 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 5 charts 9781501753039 £37.00 / $45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms in Japan have reshaped corporate ideologies, gender ideologies, and subjectivities of individual employees in Japan.
February 2021 408pp 9781439920558 £24.99 / $32.95 PB 9781439920541 £92.00 / $115.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Former members, leaders, and supporters of the PSP recall and interpret their experience. Excludes Asia Pacific
Shredding Paper
Spacing Debt
The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry Michael G. Hillard
Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine Christopher Harker
January 2021 280pp 10 b&w halftones 9781501753152 £25.99 / $32.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 216pp 10 illustrations 9781478010968 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009900 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unwraps the changing US political economy since 1960, uncovers how the paper industry defined and interacted with labor relations, and peels away the layers of history that encompassed the rise and downfall of Maine’s mighty paper industry.
Financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence of debt in Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization of the Palestinian economy under Israeli settler colonialism.
The Spirit of French Capitalism
Unwitting Architect
German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism Julian Germann
Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment Charly Coleman
Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy January 2021 304pp 9781503609846 £56.00 / $65.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
January 2021 376pp 9781503614826 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503608436 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on extensive original archival research, this book argues that German officials did not intend to promote neoliberal change. Instead they were intent on preserving Germany’s export markets and competitiveness in order to stabilize the domestic compact between capital and labor.
Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenthcentury French theologians, Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence of the Catholic Church on the development of capitalism.
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Recent Highlights
American Unemployment
Bank Notes and Shinplasters
Past, Present, and Future Frank Stricker
The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic Joshua R. Greenberg
June 2020 296pp 9780252085024 £14.99 / $19.95 PB 9780252043154 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
American Business, Politics, and Society July 2020 264pp 28 illus. 9780812252248 £27.99 / $34.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Sets the record straight on misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths about the history of unemployment that remain a mystery to many Americans. Aimed at non-economists, this history and primer on vital economic topics is also a roadmap to better jobs and economic security. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's chaotic bank note system, before the shift to federally authorized paper money.
Brand New Nation
Capitalism’s Hidden Worlds
Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in TwentyFirst-Century India Ravinder Kaur
Edited by Kenneth Lipartito & Lisa Jacobson
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture January 2020 320pp 11 illus. 9780812251814 £45.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
South Asia in Motion August 2020 360pp 9781503612594 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503612242 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenges notions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets and reveals how it depends on, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities outside the measured and the seen.
The emergence of the BRICS nations marked an optimistic moment of global futures-making. Kaur reaches into the past and future of this phenomenon, and considers how it has transformed understanding of the nation-state.
Permanent Revolution
The Employee
March 2020 192pp 9781503612372 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics and Culture in Modern America April 2020 304pp 9780812224689 £19.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Reflections on Capitalism Wyatt Wells
A Political History Jean-Christian Vinel
Permanent Revolution concisely describes the development and workings of capitalism and its influence on the broader society. Wells examines the development of economic innovation, the role of financial markets, the business cycle, the ways markets operate, and the position of labor in capitalist economies, as well as the effects of capitalism on law, politics, religion, and even the arts.
The Employee examines how American businesses dominated and influenced labor law as they pushed for an ever-narrower definition of “employee” and maneuvered to exclude workers from the right to organize. Sheds historical light on contemporary struggles for economic democracy and political power in the workplace.
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Ecosystem Edge
Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption Peter J. Williamson & Arnoud De Meyer
Finance That Cannot Be Proven Simone Polillo August 2020 204pp 7 b&w line drawings, 11 charts 9781501750373 £33.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 224pp 9781503610217 £27.99 / $35.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Ascent of Market Efficiency weaves together historical narrative and quantitative bibliometric data to detail the path financial economists took in order to form one of the central theories of financial economics—the influential efficientmarket hypothesis—which states that the behavior of financial markets is unpredictable.
Companies today face challenges like the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing customer needs, and emerging competitors. This book explains how they can build a large and dynamic ecosystem of partners that strengthen and encourage innovation in the face of disruption.
The Technologized Investor
The Business Reinvention of Japan
How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters Ulrike Schaede
Innovation through Reorientation Ashby H.B. Monk & Dane Rook
June 2020 280pp 9781503612259 £27.99 / $30.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2020 232pp 9781503608696 £23.99 / $30.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world’s third largest economy, a chief contributor to many global supply chains, and an economic leader within Asia.
The Technologized Investor is a practical guide showing how institutional investors can gain the capabilities for deep innovation by reorienting their strategies and organizations around advanced technology.
Innovation and Scaling for Impact
Measuring Social Change
How Effective Social Enterprises Do It Christian Seelos & Johanna Mair
Performance and Accountability in a Complex World Alnoor Ebrahim
September 2019 256pp 9781503611610 £19.99 / $25.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2019 320pp 9781503601406 £23.99 / $32.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The authors reassess how social sector organizations create value. Drawing on a decade of research, they reveal that success hinges on balancing innovation and scaling in a way that makes sense for social enterprise.
Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders of today’s social sector as they navigate an increasingly uncertain terrain: performance measurement.
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Stanford Backlist
The Ascent of Market Efficiency
Organizations for People
The 360° Corporation
From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation Sarah Kaplan
Caring Cultures, Basic Needs, and Better Lives Michael O’Malley & William F. Baker
September 2019 232pp 9781503607972 £21.99 / $28.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2019 248pp 9781503602540 £27.99 / $35.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers guidance to leaders as they navigate the competing demands of stakeholders. Suggesting that the shared-value mindset may actually get in the way of progress, bestselling author Sarah Kaplan shows how tradeoffs, rather than being confusing or problematic, can actually be the source of organizational resilience and transformation.
Examines the practices of twenty-one companies that put the interests and needs of employees first. Argues that where people can do their best work and thrive as individuals and as members of a cohesive community, everyone profits.
The Pricing Journey
Bubbles and Crashes
The Organizational Transformation Toward Pricing Excellence Stephan M. Liozu
The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch
April 2015 240pp 9780804788748 £37.00 / $45.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
February 2019 264pp 9780804793834 £27.99 / $35.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Liozu provides an integrated guide to the organizational, social, and behavioral dimensions of pricing. He equips readers with the practical roadmap that they need to transform their pricing culture, drive firm performance, and achieve pricing excellence.
This book provides new insight into speculative booms and busts. The authors pinpoint three factors that create bubbles, make projections about bubbles that are in the works, and offer guidelines for investors and policymakers to help sidestep future episodes.
Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
Fast/Forward
Make Your Company Fit for the Future Julian Birkinshaw & Jonas Ridderstråle
How to Thrive in Complexity Jennifer Garvey Berger
January 2019 168pp 9781503609013 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2017 240pp 9780804799539 £23.99 / $30.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Complexity can be an overwhelming force, or it can be a source of new possibility—it all depends on your ability to escape the “mind traps” we fall into. Using her background in adult development, complexity theories, and consultancy, Garvey Berger discerns five pernicious and pervasive mind traps.
Silver medal winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards in the Business Theory category. Fast/Forward paints the big picture of a new
approach to strategy and provides the necessary
playbook to make your company fit for the future.
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