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.

June 14, 2012

Santiago Zabala remembers Richard Rorty

Santiago Zabala looks back at the intellectual legacy of Richard Rorty, one of the most important philosophical figures of the last half century.

June 14, 2012

The Best Business Writing 2012 Sheds a Light on Patent Trolling

One of the more fascinating pieces in The Best Business Writing 2012 is When Patents Attack!, a story that was broadcast on NPR’s beloved “This American Life”. In the radio piece, Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell investigate how patent lawyers...

June 13, 2012

An interview with Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, editors of Poetry of the Taliban

Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn discuss their book in an interview with The Atlantic.

June 13, 2012

The Audit on Bad Business Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Audit, which features all the editors of The Best Business Writing 2012, not only celebrates excellence in business journalism but also criticizes its failures. One fault, detailed in a 2009 piece by Dean Starkman , is...

June 12, 2012

Dean Starkman on the Importance of Business Journalism for Democracy

“It’s not going overboard to say that great business writing is the vital link between the public and the institutions that shape our economic lives.”—Dean Starkman, The Best Business Writing 2012 The following is an excerpt from Dean Starkman’s introduction...

June 12, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Aronowitz on Mills, the iPhone, Economists Speak Out, and Rivers

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau The Economists’...