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Ian Malcolm

Senior Executive Editor-at-Large (Europe) and Senior Executive Editor for Economics (Global)

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startquote I look for books with broad international appeal because of their implications for global economics and politics or their centrality to the humanities. I work from the Press’s office in London. endquote

Recent Books

Cover: Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, from Harvard University Press

Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Cover: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr., from Harvard University Press

Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
James L. Nolan, Jr.

Cover: Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, by Tim Harper, from Harvard University Press

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Tim Harper

Cover: Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again, by Marc Stears, from Harvard University Press

Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again
Marc Stears

Cover: Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment, by Lucas Chancel, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise, from Harvard University Press

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment
Lucas Chancel, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

Cover: You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy, by Jake Rosenfeld, from Harvard University Press

You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
Jake Rosenfeld

Cover: The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It, by Julia Cagé, translated by Patrick Camiller, from Harvard University Press

The Price of Democracy: How Money Shapes Politics and What to Do about It
Julia Cagé, translated by Patrick Camiller

Cover: The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future, by Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter, from Harvard University Press

The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future
Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter

Cover: The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It, by Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, from Harvard University Press

The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro

Cover: Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, by Charles Camic, from Harvard University Press

Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics
Charles Camic

Cover: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, by Tae-Yeoun Keum, from Harvard University Press

Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
Tae-Yeoun Keum

Cover: The New Despotism, by John Keane, from Harvard University Press

The New Despotism
John Keane

Power after Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid, by Peter Fox-Penner, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Mehrsa Baradaran, author of How the Other Half Banks and The Color of Money, contributed to the New York Times special project on inequality, “The America We Need,” with a fiery critique of the neoliberal myth that profit incentives produce the best outcomes for society.
Lapham’s Quarterly published “How Is a Disaster Made?”, excerpted from Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015.
In an American Prospect essay lauded by Senator and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau originator Elizabeth Warren, Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter, coauthors of The Great American Housing Bubble, argued that changes proposed by the Trump administration to radically ease mortgage lending standards will undermine the Dodd-Frank Act and lead to future financial crises.
At Dissent, Marking Time author Nicole Fleetwood analyzed James Hough’s painting How Big House Products Makes Boxers through a lens clarified by a pandemic disease that disproportionately puts at risk the lives of the incarcerated.

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Who among us hasn’t considered what our lives would be like if we had taken alternate paths, made different decisions? Storytellers of every stripe write of the lives we didn’t have, says Andrew H. Miller, author of On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives. As we live through a worldwide pandemic, the ideas of what might have been are even more appealing. Much like the adolescents on the verge of adulthood in Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People, Miller tells us, we wait to see what comes next. …

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