January 4, 2021

Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should

By Jonathan Schwabish

“An excellent primer for anyone who wants to display quantitative information clearly and powerfully.” —Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. secretary of labor Today’s AEA featured post comes to use...

January 4, 2021

Q&A: Benjamin Ho on Why Trust Matters

“Illustrating a seemingly noneconomic concept like trust is, in fact, at the heart of many fundamental economic concepts. Why Trust Matters looks back in history to develop the idea that trust undergirds most human interactions. Benjamin Ho has written a...

January 3, 2021

Video: Prices and Decentralization Without Convexity

“This groundbreaking book of practical economic theory by Milgrom, the world’s most accomplished designer of complex auctions, describes the design of the most complex auction yet: the FCC incentive auction for electromagnetic spectrum. The book also illuminates why the magic...

January 3, 2021

Browse our AEA Virtual Book Exhibit with Christian Pizarro Winting

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for the 2021 American Economic Association annual meeting. I am Christian Pizarro Winting, the editor for CUP’s books in economics. This last year has been an undoubtedly tough one for all,...

January 1, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: 2020 has undoubtedly been a year of significance for the field of economics. The pandemic has presented unique challenges to the implementation of effective policies, and the field has come under close scrutiny as opinions vary...

December 30, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! Geopolitical Imagination, Urban Resilience in a Global Context and More!

Our weekly list of new books from our distributed presses is now available! ibidem Press Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Geopolitical Imagination Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia Mikhail Suslov In this timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian...

December 22, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Out of the Dark Night, Aimlessness, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Out of the Dark Night Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe Out of the Dark Night reconstructs critical theory’s historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense...

December 16, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! To Be A Water Protector, Thinking the Problematic, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies Asia Shorts Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic Edited by David Kenley Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators...

December 15, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Underwater, Made in Hong Kong, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Society and the Environment Underwater Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States Rebecca Elliott In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront...

December 11, 2020

New from transcript publishing! Truth and Fiction, Dramatic Disgust and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! transcript publishing From the Culture & Theory series Truth and Fiction Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature Edited by Peter Deutschmann, Jens Herlth, and Alois Woldan Many influential conspiracy...

December 10, 2020

Five Ideas for a Plastic-Free Holiday Season

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz and Joanna Atherfold Finn

“Plastic Free July inspires me to step up my commitment to reducing single-use plastic in my daily life and on tour.” ~Jack Johnson, musician and Plastic Free Foundation ambassador We’re wrapping up our American Geophysical Union virtual exhibit with a...

December 9, 2020

New From the Association for Asian Studies The Pandemic

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Association for Asian Studies The Pandemic Perspectives on Asia Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It covers the first phase of...