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TigerTalks in the City: “Breakthrough Books”

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Princeton Entrepreneurship Council and Princeton University Press are pleased to invite you to


TigerTalks in the City: "Breakthrough Books"
 

We live in the information age, and all of us—not least entrepreneurs—use information to make decisions large and small. At a time when many forms of digitally-driven information have become infected by the malady of so-called fake news, books provide a level of stability and authority unrivalled by other sources. The original research that books disseminate inspires innovation and catalyzes change.

Join the following celebrated Princeton faculty members and Princeton University Press authors for a discussion on their recently published books, which cover a spectrum of innovative, groundbreaking research. 


Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton,
 “The Great Escape”

Professor Emerita & former Dean of College Nancy Malkiel, “Keep the Damned Women Out”

Dalton Conley, “The Genome Factor”

Alex Todorov, “Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions"

For detailed information on the authors and their books, please see below.

 

The panel will be moderated by Peter Dougherty, Director of Princeton University Press.

Following the discussion, enjoy a networking reception where you can meet and mingle with the authors. 

Reservations are required, so be sure to save your seat today.

6:00 p.m. Check-In (refreshments & light hors d'oeuvres)

6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion

7:30 p.m. Networking Reception                      

 

Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escape from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today’s disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.
Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His many books include The Analysis of Household Surveys and Economics and Consumer Behavior. He is a past president of the American Economic Association.
Nancy Malkiel, “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation
As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance: as one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, “Keep the damned women out.” In this book, Nancy Malkiel tells the story of this momentous era in higher education, exploring how and why such conservative institutions undertook so profound a change, and in such short order. She reveals that coeducation was the result not of moral guilt or female activism, but instead of highly strategic decisions made by powerful men. Drawing on unprecedented archival research, “Keep the Damned Women Out” is the definitive chronicle of a watershed moment in American and British education.
Nancy Weiss Malkiel is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, where she was the longest-serving dean of the college, overseeing the university's undergraduate academic program for twenty-four years. Her books include Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights and Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR.
Dalton Conley (and Jason Fletcher), The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague, but the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social life than ever before. The Genome Factor describes the latest astonishing discoveries being made at the scientific frontier where genomics and the social sciences intersect. The authors reveal that there are real genetic differences by racial ancestry, which don’t conform to what we call black, white, or Latino, and that genes explain a significant share of who gets ahead in society and who does not, often acting as engines of mobility that counter social disadvantage. The Genome Factor shows how genomics is transforming the social sciences—and how social scientists are integrating both nature and nurture into a unified, comprehensive understanding of human behavior at both the individual and society-wide levels.
Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His many books include Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask. He lives in New York City.
Alexander Todorov, Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second—and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. Why, then, do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world’s leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions, explaining how our ability to read faces evolved, how it often leads us astray, and what our judgments tell us about our own biases and stereotypes.
Alexander Todorov is professor of psychology at Princeton University, where he is also affiliated with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His research on first impressions has been covered by media around the world, including the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Daily Telegraph, Scientific American, PBS, and NPR. He lives in Princeton.

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