PublicAffairs was launched in 1997 by Peter Osnos.
[2] 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 Shoshana Zuboff's international bestseller The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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