The Yale Press website now features a special page for Earth Day, with a selection of key environmental titles for individuals and for businesses. From recent publications like Gus Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, to some of our bestsellers like Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S.
Journalists across the web are giving a nudge–I mean, a nod–to Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, authors of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Thaler and Sunstein wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe, discussing the importance of behavioral economics in policymaking. The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time
On the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times, Annika Mengisen admitted that she and fellow-blogger Steven Levitt can’t stop reading Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. The Freakonomics team invited Thaler and Sunstein for a Q&A, which can be read here.
In celebration of the Yale University Press Centennial (1908-2008), we are proud to launch our brand new Centennial website. Visit here to find a message from Yale Press Director John Donatich; a brief history of the Press’s first 100 years; highlights from the Press’s bestselling, prize-winning, and seminal works; news
Network World featured Yale Press author and “bona fide member of the digiterati” Jonathan Zittrain in a review titled “How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net.” This review of Zittrain’s new book, The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It, has quickly made its way across the web. Macworld
Stephen J. Dubner of the New York Times’ Freakonomics blog invited “blegs” from the readers–or, “questions that the Freakonomics readership could collectively answer well.” The inaugural bleg–did Clint Eastwood’s ever say “Read my lips”–was answered with the help of Yale Press’ own Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the “wonderful” Yale
Writing on The Huffington Post, Trita Parsi, author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States and president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), discusses the upcoming NIAC conference, “Breaking the US-Iran Stalemate: Reassessing the Nuclear Strategy in the Wake of the Majles Elections.”
The Technology Liberation Front’s Adam Thierer reviewed Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. Finding the book interesting, he recommended–and later, implored–his readers to pick up a copy. Zittrain’s provocative ideas about “generative” and “sterile” appliances inspire Thierer’s extensive response and the comments that follow. “It’s
In his Findings column for the New York Times, John Tierney wonders why Americans aren’t changing their lives in reaction to climate change. “We need the right nudge,” Tierney says, referring to the recent release from Yale Press authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About
Daniel Solove, author of The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, appeared on the NBC’s Today Show on March 20 to discuss the legality of online gossip. You can watch that clip below. Daniel J. Solove is associate professor, George Washington University Law School, and an