Category: Books

Rodrik presents economic globalization as a trilemma: amongst democracy, high-levels of globalization, and nation states, you can pick any two. And since we’re unlikely to see the end of the last, and we don’t want to give up the first, globalization in its more extreme forms will have to go.

Great story, expertly told.

My current pattern is crime novel, economics book, crime novel, economics book. This is working pretty well. Beth says that is because it’s all just crime.

A history of the US dollar’s role in international finance and a bit of speculation about its potential futures.

Great, fast-paced organized crime novel set in San Diego.

The story of the great financial meltdown, told from the point of view of a small handful of investors who saw it coming.

There really are a lot of good modern crime novelists these days. I feel way behind on my reading.

I can’t seem to stop reading books about the world economy. And how we really screwed it up. And boy, did we.

An economist debunks the reigning theory of neo-liberal economics and explains the harm it has done the world economy in the last several decades, particularly in regards to developing nations. The title comes from the fact that the world’s rich nations all got that way by not following the neo-liberal prescription, but now force it upon the world’s developing nations.

J. R. Ackerly describes his time spent as the personal secretary of an Indian Maharaja in the 1920’s.

A pretty disheartening account of the many economic ideas, like trickle-down theory, which ought to be dead but are still going strong.