June 26, 2012

Michael Marder: Do plants have their own form of consciousness?

Michael Marder addresses the controversy stirred up by his recent NYTimes articles and addresses how new advances in botany should impact our ethical thinking.

June 25, 2012

Jacqueline Stevens: Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters

Jacqueline Stevens argues that political scientists should not receive National Science Foundation grants, as political science is not a generally successful predictor of important events.

June 22, 2012

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: #AAUP12 and Beyond

The online conversation about PDA at #AAUP12.

June 22, 2012

Paul Courant Offers a Economist's View of the Google Book Settlement

We conclude our week-long focus on The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, edited by Joseph Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin with an essay Paul N. Courant, an economist and dean of libraries at the University...

June 22, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 21, 2012

A View on the Failures of New Classical Economics from The Economists' Voice 2.0

After the financial crisis of 2008, economists debated the applicability of New Classical Economics. Did this macroeconomic theory with its faith in markets fail to predict or understand looming economic problems? Paul Krugman criticized New Classical Economics while University of...

June 20, 2012

Richard Posner on Financial Regulatory Reform and the Politics of Denial

Richard Posner’s essay “Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial,” included in The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, explores the question of whether, as is the case, those officials complicit...

June 19, 2012

Columbia University Press Summer Book Giveaway!

Enter our Summer Book Giveaway for a chance to win 20 lbs. CUP books!

June 19, 2012

Henry J. Aaron on Health Care Reform

In the following excerpt from Henry J. Aaron’s “Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment,” which appears in The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, Aaron examines some of the challenges confronting the implementation...

June 19, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Modernism at the Barricades and International Poetry

Our weekly list of new titles includes Stephen Bronner’s reinterpretation of the cultural politics of modernism and several new titles from the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong poetry series: Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia Stephen Bronner To...

June 15, 2012

The Editors of Best Business Writing on the Business Press and the Public Trust

Earlier this year, the Columbia Journalism Review and Public Business, organized a panel Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?. Among the panelists were Dean Starkman and Felix Salmon, two of the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012....

June 15, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.