Philippa Grand

Colleagues, I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of LSE Press and have recently taken up the position. If you ever wish to publish your book OPEN ACCESS, please do send your book proposals our way.
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Wishing all of our authors, contributors, editors and readers a happy holidays and a prosperous year ahead.

We can't wait to share details about our incredible 2026 list, featuring books from @rgsibg.bsky.social and more: press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

👋 Until 2026 - the LSE Press Team

Photo of the book Renegotiating Patriarchy Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox.

"A brilliant and powerful book that gives voice to ordinary Bangladeshi women."

— Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane and Love Marriage

Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox by Naila Kabeer is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing: https://bit.ly/4otCVnG

What Can Economists Agree on These Days? A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.

"The London Consensus offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis".

New edited volume from @lsepress.bsky.social discussed in @newyorker.com ⬇️
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We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

Three Cheers for the London Consensus Anne-Marie Slaughter welcomes an ambitious effort to orient economic policymaking around a new set of shared principles.

"The book’s five core principles are highly relevant to all global efforts to renovate or reinvent economic policymaking."

Read the full review of The London Consensus by Anne-Marie Slaughter for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/3Y4hu1E

Nicholas Stern – can a new vision for growth drive climate action? - LSE Review of Books The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern sets out a vision to drive climate action by pursuing holistic rather than purely economic growth.

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? 🪴

Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Read in full here: 🖇️ bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructure for Academic Publishing

🎓 Want to learn about today's technologies and infrastructures for open #ScholarlyPublishing?

Open to all -- register by December 12th for your spot in this unique course -- PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructures!

www.sfu.ca/publishing/m...

#ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

#ScholComm #AcademicSky

Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025 We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Franci...

Our Exec Director, @theblochian.bsky.social, will be speaking at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025! She’ll join others to discuss the new @ojcollective.bsky.social, a community-led, no-APC #OA alternative to big deals and TAs.

📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/news/816/

The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC.

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Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Journal of Long-Term Care

🌍 This #InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities we’re highlighting The Journal of Long-Term Care, an open access journal sharing research that covers a wide range of topics including disability, care and quality of life.

Find out more here: https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/

The Center for Research Libraries & its NERL licensing program have announced their landmark partnership with @ojcollective.bsky.social. See here for more info: www.crl.edu/crl-nerl-joi... 1/2

The Open Journals Collective
"This initiative replaces transformative agreements with a non-profit, community-led research infrastructure, collectively raising funds to support diamond journals."
Caroline Edwards, Birkbeck & a director of the Open Journals Collective.

* openjournalscollective.org

The world is struggling to halt climate change. But can it adapt? At COP30, ‘adaptation’ to global warming is high on the agenda as efforts to reduce emissions stall

"Nicholas Stern, economist and author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century, says the effects of climate change “are coming through faster, more severely and at lower temperature increases than we anticipated”."

👁️‍🗨️ Read more at @financialtimes.com

https://on.ft.com/3K1QkoF

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Including Economía LACEA, Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, Journal of Long-Term Care, LSE Public Policy Review and Philosophy of Physics.

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Climate action is the best way to ensure long-term growth Although we may have underestimated the risks of the climate crisis, we have also been too pessimistic about the opportunities created by new, green tech...

"The clean economy is now cheaper than the dirty economy... that proportion is rising rapidly."

Nick Stern writes in @theobserveruk.bsky.social around the publication The Growth Story of the 21st Century. @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Free to read and download ➡️ https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs

Graphic with LSE Press, OA and Philosophy of Physics logo. Text reads New Research Paper.

🔓 New article from Philosophy of Physics Journal

Read “Still No Peace on the Lattice” by Sébastien Rivat for free via #OpenAccess publishing: https://doi.org/10.31389/pop.187

Climate action is the key to innovation and economic growth Nicholas Stern reveals how tackling the climate crisis isn't just urgent—it's a transformative opportunity for global prosperity, innovation, and sustainable development. His new open access book, The...

"As a significant player on the international stage, the UK has both the opportunity and the responsibility to lead.”

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern spoke with #RftW Magazine following the publication of The Growth Story of the 21st Century. 🩹 🌍

Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Cover of the book If You're So Ethical Why Are You So Highly Paid?

Drawing on a survey of over a thousand senior executives, this book explores beliefs about inequality, distributive justice and the responsibilities of business in a civilised society.

🔗If You're So Ethical Why Are You So Highly Paid? is available now: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth

Global South to write 21st century's growth story As the impacts of climate change become more severe with deadly heatwaves, eroding coastlines, rising food prices, and increasing social and economic instability, affected countries, particularly poor...

"The Growth Story of the 21st Century, offers a compelling and optimistic perspective that growth and climate action can be aligned, and that this approach is especially promising for developing countries."

🌍 Read the full review from The Daily Star: www.thedailystar.net/opinion/view...

What next for community-led open access book publishing? Join Copim for a free two day hybrid conference!

What next for community-led open access book publishing? https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-next-for-community-led-open-access-book-publishing-tickets-1753736566279?aff=Bluesky

Nicholas Stern – can a new vision for growth drive climate action? - LSE Review of Books The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern sets out a vision to drive climate action by pursuing holistic rather than purely economic growth.

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? 🪴

Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Read in full here: 🖇️ bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Very pleased that Nicholas Stern’s new book “The Growth Story of the 21st Century” is one of Martin Wolf’s best books of the year. @financialtimes.com @gsos-lse.bsky.social

You can read it #OpenAccess at press.lse.ac.uk

Climate action is the best way to ensure long-term growth Although we may have underestimated the risks of the climate crisis, we have also been too pessimistic about the opportunities created by new, green tech...

"The clean economy is now cheaper than the dirty economy... that proportion is rising rapidly."

Nick Stern writes in @theobserveruk.bsky.social around the publication The Growth Story of the 21st Century. @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Free to read and download ➡️ https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs

Photo of Lucy Ashworth with large red quotation marks. Text reads “It is important to remember that there is no ‘right’ route into publishing. People enter through a range of different pathways and that diversity of experience is so valuable to the industry.”

What’s it really like to work in academic publishing?

For #WorkInPublishingWeek, the LSE Press team answer your questions, including what makes a strong applicant and the best part of working with authors.

Read the full Q&A here: https://bit.ly/3LTLzy4

Best books of 2025: Economics Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

“His story is one of achievement, hope and danger.”

Martin Wolf selects the best economics books of 2025 for @financialtimes.com, including The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern.

Read the full list here: https://on.ft.com/4pkO0bv

@granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Photo of Elinor Potts with large red quotation marks and text that reads “I love sharing endorsements with authors, departments and teams and sharing words of praise from influential thinkers and tastemakers about our publications. In 2025 alone, we've had four Nobel Prize winners endorse books by LSE Press authors (so far!).”

This #WorkInPublishingWeek, the LSE Press team answered your questions about what it’s really like to work in publishing.

Read the full Q&A here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2025/11/19/work-in-publishing-week-advice-from-the-lse-press-team/