January 6, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 History Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 history catalog from Columbia University Press. We have a slate of new books that unearth the origins of our global crises in capitalism, the international order, and conflicts over...

January 5, 2021

Proving Hamlet Wrong: Doubt and Action in the Life of Albert Hirschman

By Michele Alacevich

“This wonderful book offers new insights on a giant of the social sciences. Alacevich places Hirschman’s work in intellectual context and traces its long arc of influence to our day.” —Dani Rodrik, author of Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for...

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...

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...