Tag: Economics

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...

October 12, 2020

Columbia University Press Congratulates Author Paul Milgrom on Winning the Nobel Prize in Economics

American economist Paul Milgrom along with his colleague Robert Wilson have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to auction theory, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday, October 12. Milgrom, the Shirley...

October 30, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Transatlantic Speculations, Triadic Coercion, Conversion Disorder, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Conversion Disorder Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Jamieson Webster Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol Edited by Andrew M. Fearnley and Daniel Matlin Triadic Coercion Israel’s Targeting of States...

July 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders' foreword to the second edition of "The Assault on Social Policy"

Read Bernie Sanders’ foreword to the second edition of THE ASSAULT ON SOCIAL POLICY!

July 15, 2015

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): Striking Beauty, Born Translated, and More!

Our weekly list of newly available titles.

April 10, 2015

The Greening of Asia: Businesses’ Role in the World’s Biggest-Ever Environmental Clean-Up

Read an article by Mark Clifford, author of THE GREENING OF ASIA, excerpted from The World Financial Review, in which he discusses how the challenge of improving Asia’s environment has been translated into business opportunities.

April 9, 2015

Mark Clifford discusses how companies are confronting environmental emergencies in Asia

Watch a video of Mark Clifford, author of THE GREENING OF ASIA, discussing the many and varied responses of companies throughout Asia to the region’s environmental crises.

April 8, 2015

From Black to Green: Asia's Challenge

Read “From Black to Green: Asia’s Challenge,” the conclusion to Mark Clifford’s THE GREENING OF ASIA: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR SOLVING ASIA’S ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY.

April 7, 2015

Green Shoots Under Soot-Stained Skies

Read “Green Shoots Under Soot-Stained Skies,” an excerpt from Mark Clifford’s THE GREENING OF ASIA: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR SOLVING ASIA’S ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY, published by Columbia Business School Publishing.

January 28, 2015

Newly Elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the Future Europe Deserves

Read “The Destruction of Greece as a Model for All of Europe: Is This the Future That Europe Deserves?,” newly elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipris’s foreword to WHAT DOES EUROPE WANT, by Slavoj Žižek and Srecko Horvat.

December 17, 2014

How Expectations and Uncertainty Affect the Economy — An Interview with Eric Barthalon

Read an interview with Eric Barthalon, author of UNCERTAINTY, EXPECTATIONS, AND FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: REVIVING ALLAIS’S LOST THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME.

October 10, 2014

Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald discuss the idea of a learning society

Watch a video of a panel at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Press featuring CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY authors Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald.