PublicAffairs (or PublicAffairs Books) is an imprint of

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, an American book publishing company located in

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and has been a part of the

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since 2016. PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 by Peter Osnos. 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’s Banker to the Poor and Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s two books Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times. In 2019, it published

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’s international bestseller

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. Perseus Books won

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's "Publisher of the Year" award for 2007.

References

External links

Company web site
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Panel discussion on the 20th anniversary of PublicAffairs Books, April 17, 2018

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