Joseph E. Stiglitz and Adekeye Adebajo for PS Book Recommendations

Your weekly reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. The PS Book Recommendations newsletter. [View this message in a web browser.]( [PS Book Recommendations]( Welcome to PS Book Recommendations, your weekly source of reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. This week's edition features Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, and Adekeye Adebajo, a professor and a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship in South Africa. Joseph E. Stiglitz Recommends... and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories]( By Amitav Ghosh Stiglitz says: "Drawing on extensive research, Ghosh illuminates the role of the nineteenth-century narcotics trade, which Europe fought to keep open in the Opium Wars, in the creation of wealth on both sides of the Atlantic. He also shows how those who grew rich from this nefarious activity quickly attained respectability for themselves and their descendants." [The Groves of Academe]( By Mary McCarthy Stiglitz says: "This 1952 novel tells the story of a literature instructor at a progressive college who, after being told that he will not be kept on, determines that he has become the target of a witch-hunt. The book offers a glimpse into academic life that is eerily relevant today." Don't miss our new PS Say More interview with Stiglitz, in which highlights four inflation risks associated with another Donald Trump administration, explains what US Republicans get wrong about freedom, identifies the principles that should guide a post-neoliberal agenda, and more. [Read now](. By a PS Contributor Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity, and Cruelty]( By Adekeye Adebajo Adebajo says: “My book, Global Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity, and Cruelty, contains 100 essays written over the last three decades, on 104 of the most important pan-African figures. Most of the profiles focus on people from the 1.4 billion-strong African population and its 250 million-strong diaspora in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean, but I also include some Western figures engaging with African issues, whom I assess from an African perspective. The list includes technocrats, activists, writers, public intellectuals, musical and film artists, and athletes. My essays acknowledge the continuing legacies and impacts of the twin scourges of slavery and colonialism, but also seek to capture the zeitgeist of the post-apartheid era. I argue that the culmination of Africa’s liberation struggles was mirrored by similar battles in the Caribbean, as well as the American civil-rights movement, with all three involving citizens of 'global Africa.'” [Read more from Adebajo](. [PS. Subscribe to Premium to access PS Quarterly: Age of Extremes.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter does not entitle the recipient to re-publish any of the content it contains. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.