PublicAffairs (or PublicAffairs Books) is an imprint of
Perseus Books
Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. It was named Publisher of the Y ...
, an American book publishing company located in
New York City
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and has been a part of the
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Grou ...
since 2016.
PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 by
Peter Osnos
Peter L.W. Osnos (born October 13, 1943) is an American journalist who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books.
Early life
Osnos was born in India to a Jewish refugee family from Warsaw, Poland. He is the son of Joseph Osnos and Marta Osnos, wh ...
.
The current Publisher is Clive Priddle.
The company publishes mostly non-mainstream non-fiction books about politics and current affairs, both American and international.
It has published several books by Nobel Prize-winning authors, including
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...
’s
Banker to the Poor
''Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty'' is an autobiography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus. The book describes Yunus' early life, moving into his college years, and into ...
and
Abhijit V. Banerjee and
Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abd ...
’s two books
Poor Economics
''Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty'' (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Priz ...
and
Good Economics for Hard Times
''Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems'' is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Jug ...
.
In 2019, it published
Shoshana Zuboff’s international bestseller
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
''The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power'' is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their b ...
.
Perseus Books won
Publishers Weekly
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's "Publisher of the Year" award for 2007.
References
External links
Company web site*
Panel discussion on the 20th anniversary of PublicAffairs Books, April 17, 2018 C-SPAN
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Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Publishing companies established in 1997
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