Applies the tools of game theory and information economics to advance the understanding of how laws work. The organization…

This introductory textbook on the economics of cities is for students of urban and regional policy and of undergraduate…

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Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest…

With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Francoise Baylis insists that…

\nHuman space journeys are awe-inspiring but risky and immensely expensive. Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees argue that…

Keith Tribe's new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world's leading…

The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…

\nYakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic…

Ai Hisano reveals how the food industry capitalized on color, fashioning a visual vocabulary that shapes what we think of…

Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of…

\nLeading social scientists explore pressing issues—monopoly and inequality, growth and innovation, climate change and…