We are extremely pleased and thrilled to see our collaboration with the esteemed international news and commentary provider Project Syndicate and our new book THE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD ECONOMY go live on their website.  They bring some of the world’s most distinguished voices to a global community that includes 431 leading newspapers in 150 countries. 

Together with the great folks at Project Syndicate, we’ve created a “Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy ” feature that appears on their homepage.  Click on the Wiki to find out the answer to the word of the day–or Terms of Trade!

It is very rare here in the Princeton Univ Press publicity dept to get interviews on Charlie Rose and Newshour, but we did just that this past week with Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff and their sizzling new book THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.  They also did a Q&A with viewers online at the Newshour after the show.  Read the Q&A and see the clip here.  It just goes to show that charts and graphs rule!  NY Times bestseller list here we come!

It is with great pride we congratulate Elinor Ostrom, co-winner, with Oliver Williamson, of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the Princeton University Press book UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY.  And I hear through the grapevine that we have another project of hers coming out in the not-to-distant future.  Stay tuned!

Congratulations, again, Elinor!

Peter Leeson discussed the economic and business lessons we can glean from pirates on Fox Business yesterday.

We were thrilled to learn the other day that bestselling PUP book ANIMAL SPIRITS: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George Akerlof and Bob Shiller, was included on the shortlist for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year 2009 award.  Our congratulations to George and Bob on the publication of this tremendous, important, and timely work.

The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson is now available as an audio book. Download your copy today at Audible Books.

Owen Barder of Development Drums recently spoke with Daryl Collins and Jonathan Morduch (two of the authors of Portfolios of the Poor)  about the poor’s use of financial services and what new models of financial services would best assist them in managing their limited funds. The interview is available for a listen here.

Author Josh Angrist just forwarded this photo of the LSE’s Economist Book Shop window with 5 copies of Mostly Harmless Econometrics on display. But, based on the sales history for this book, those copies might not last too long. Mostly Harmless Econometrics has been a sleeper hit for us this year and we are currently on our 5th printing. And did we mention the t-shirts again?

Caleb Crain’s terrific piece on The Invisible Hook appears in the current issue of The New Yorker. Here’s a quick excerpt:

A brisk, clever new book, “The Invisible Hook” (Princeton; $24.95), by Peter T. Leeson, an economist who claims to have owned a pirate skull ring as a child and to have had supply-and-demand curves tattooed on his right biceps when he was seventeen, offers a different approach. Rather than directly challenging pirates’ leftist credentials, Leeson says that their apparent espousal of liberty, equality, and fraternity derived not from idealism but from a desire for profit.

Bonus — head over to Crain’s blog to read a “behind the scenes” post on the sources he used to prepare the piece.

Robert Shiller was recently interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam of VoxEU (the policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, UK) about his work and, in particular, Animal Spirits the book he co-authored with George Akerlof.    Click here to listen in full.

We were very pleased to hear this week that two Princeton University Press economicstitles are on the longlist for consideration of the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year–the only university press on the list.  Congratulations to George Akerlof and Robert Shiller for ANIMAL SPIRITS: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, and to Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff for their soon-to-be published THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Shortlist  announcements will be made in September.