May 31, 2023

Oonagh McDonald on Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin burst on the scene in 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis when trust in the Federal Reserve and financial institutions was at an all-time low. It appeared to offer a new kind of payment without any intermediaries—a...

April 25, 2023

Max Gillman on The Spectre of Price Inflation

“Why are prices so high? Is this a temporary spike due to Covid or the war in Ukraine?” In my new book, The Spectre of Price Inflation, I argue that our current predicament of price inflaction is unlikely to be...

January 7, 2022

Emerging Markets: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t

Lorenzo Forni

The COVID-19 pandemic has already had large negative effects on emerging economies. When the crisis hit, most emerging economies were in relatively good shape from a macroeconomic point of view. Their central banks were successfully adopting inflation targeting, exchange rates...

April 5, 2021

Browse Our ISA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Caelyn Cobb

Hello, and welcome to the second annual (and hopefully the last) Columbia University Press International Studies Association Virtual Exhibit Booth! I’m Caelyn Cobb, the editor for global and international politics, coming to you live from my apartment in Queens, New...

January 5, 2021

Video: Mark Blyth on Global Trumpism and the Future of the Global Economy

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humor, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

November 18, 2020

New From Agenda Publishing! Cultural Economics and Austerity

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From The Economy: Key Ideas series Cultural Economics Christiane Hellmanzik Cultural Economics investigates and analyses the contribution to and role of the creative industries and their products and services in...

September 23, 2020

New from Agenda Publishing! Finntopia

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing Finntopia What We Can Learn from the World’s Happiest Country Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen In the quest for the best of all possible societies, Danny Dorling and Annika...

September 9, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Quantitative Easing, ohpikinâwasowin/Growing a Child, Being a Parent in the Field and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Finance Matters series Quantitative Easing Jonathan Ashworth This book offers a thorough and perspicacious analysis of QE, what has become a recovery method of last resort, and...

August 5, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Farming as Financial Asset, Market/Place, and Bounded Rationality

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the Economic Transformations series Farming as Financial Asset Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes Stefan Ouma In a world with a growing population that needs to...

August 4, 2020

The Other Corona Crisis: The Anger It’s Going to Unleash Once It’s Over

By Mark Blyth

“With considerable sophistication and a good dose of humour, this book dissects the popular anger that has made our economics unsustainable and our politics dysfunctional. Lonergan and Blyth rightly call for a reset of our current model of capitalism. To...

July 1, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! The Japanese Economy and European Studies

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing From the World Economies series The Japanese Economy Hiroaki Richard Watanabe Hiroaki Richard Watanabe examines the ups and downs of Japan’s postwar economic history to offer an up-to-date and...

June 17, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Angrynomics, Creative Resistance, The Power of Place in Play, and more!

Our weekly list of new books by our distributed presses is now available! Agenda Publishing Angrynomics Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth In Angrynomics, Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and...