By Matthew E. Kahn, author of Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities Before the COVID Shock, urban economists told a familiar “tale of two …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from November 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
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 >Our forthcoming special collection with 14 essays and five commentaries from leading academics and practitioners will examine the changing nature of multilateralism and global development. Collectively we analyze new forms of multilateralism, changes underway in old multilateralism, the possibility of some quick fixes, along with the impossibility of a few strategies.
Read More >By Jenny Stuber, author of Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification In communities across the American West, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed new social …
Read More >May Day and International Workers’ Day commemorate the 1886 Chicago Haymarket affair and the fight for representation and rights for laborers worldwide — as well as the continuing efforts and struggle of the labor movement. …
Read More >Mexican fiscal history is characterized by a constant: poor tax collection. Despite several attempts to reform the tax system, no change has resulted in a level of tax collection that would place …
Read More >By Christy Thornton, author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy Who gets to govern the global economy? In the twentieth century, this was a key question …
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