An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics| press.princeton.edu
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human| press.princeton.edu
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t| press.princeton.edu
Simple but powerful strategies for increasing your success by improving your thinking| press.princeton.edu
Why India's problems won't be solved by rapid economic growth alone| press.princeton.edu
How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment| press.princeton.edu
An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists| press.princeton.edu
Meritocracy has become a leading social ideal. Politicians across the ideological spectrum continually return to the theme that the rewards of life—money, power, jobs, university admission—should be distributed according to skill and effort.| press.princeton.edu
A compelling case for why it's time for socialism| press.princeton.edu
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War| press.princeton.edu
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How the euro survived a series of crises, and how to make it more resilient| press.princeton.edu
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds| press.princeton.edu
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s world| press.princeton.edu
"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the Year| press.princeton.edu
"It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock's new book . . . that people who make prediction their business—people who appear as experts on television, get quoted in newspaper articles, advise governments and businesses, and participate in punditry roundtables—are no better than the rest of us. When they're wrong, they're rarely held accountable, and they rarely admit it, either. . . . It would be nice if there were fewer partisans on television disguised as "analysts" and "ex...| press.princeton.edu
An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers| press.princeton.edu
Why people are not as gullible as we think| press.princeton.edu
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media| press.princeton.edu
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it| press.princeton.edu
How the FDA became the world's most powerful regulatory agency| press.princeton.edu
Why it's time to enshrine the right to vote in the Constitution| press.princeton.edu
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education| press.princeton.edu
A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society| press.princeton.edu
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper| press.princeton.edu
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home| press.princeton.edu
The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s—and why it continues to constrain progressive ambitions today| press.princeton.edu
A gripping, in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump’s historic victory| press.princeton.edu
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government| press.princeton.edu
"Right or wrong, or perhaps somewhere in between, Clark's is about as stimulating an account of world economic history as one is likely to find. Let's hope that the human traits to which he attributes economic progress are acquired, not genetic, and that the countries that grow in population over the next 50 years turn out to be good at imparting them. Alternatively, we can simply hope he's wrong."—Benjamin M. Friedman, New York Times Book Review| press.princeton.edu