Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street—our environments are themselves products of our behavior.

Last week Chile went through the most extreme moment of political turmoil since Pinochet’s dictatorship.

In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies?

Upon the announcement that Dr. Michael Kremer is the joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2019, along with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, Princeton University Press would like to extend our congratulations.

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West?

Capital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing exchanges and trading platforms.