Busting the Bankers’ Club is an eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform. Bankers brought the global …
Read More >By Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs, co-authors of Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor For nearly half a century, scholars and policymakers alike have pointed to the …
Read More >Delinquent takes readers on a journey from Capital One’s headquarters to street corners in Detroit, kitchen tables in Sacramento, and other places where debt affects people’s everyday lives. Uncovering the true costs of consumer credit …
Read More >Two economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better. Cannabis “legalization” hasn’t lived …
Read More >We’ve removed the paywall from Asian Survey‘s annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute …
Read More >Michelle Lipinski joined UC Press in the Spring of 2020 as our Senior Editor of Economics and Technology Studies. An experienced editor who has worked at both Stanford University Press and Oxford …
Read More >Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Michelle Lipinski has joined the University of California Press as our new senior acquisitions editor for economics and technology studies. With just three days in the office …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Matías Vernengo, co-editor of Why Latin American Nations Fail: Development Strategies in the …
Read More >This post was originally featured on Medium and has been reblogged with the permission of the author. by Gordon Young, author of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City “Three years after being named arson …
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