Globalist Bookshelf

2012 Selections

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Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House)

By Hedrick Smith

Excerpt: The American Boulevard of Stolen Dreams


The Revenge of Geography (Random House)

By Robert D. Kaplan

Excerpt: Turkey and the Politics of Water


Bull by the horns: Fighting To Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself (Free Press)

By Sheila Bair

Excerpt: The Obama Economic Team’s Manly Approach


Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Cambridge University Press)

By William H. Janeway

Excerpt: U.S. Energy Policy and the Anti-Innovation Bias


Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Penguin)

By Chrystia Freeland

Excerpt: The Rise of the Plutocrats


Europe’s Unfinished Currency: The Political Economics of the Euro (Anthem)

By Thomas Mayer

Excerpt: Can American History Save the Euro?


Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton)

By Lester Brown

Excerpt: The New Geopolitics of Food


The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis And What We Can Do About It (Bloomsbury)

By Timothy Noah

Excerpt: Why It’s Impossible To Unionize Walmart


Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power (Rowman and Littlefield)

By Frank Vogl

Excerpt: Natural Resources, Natural Corruption?


The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters (Princeton University Press)

By Diane Coyle

Excerpt: Ten Steps to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters


Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress (Twelve)

By Lawrence Lessig

Excerpt: Where Have All the Progressives Gone?


Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (Penguin)

By James Rickard

Excerpt: Dubai: The Casablanca of Today?


Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (TED)

By Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna

Excerpt: From the Information Age to the Hybrid Age


Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

By Ruchir Sharma (W.W. Norton)

Excerpt: The India-Brazil Axis


Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (Alfred A. Knopf)

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Excerpt: AID and the Afghan Cotton Saga


Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means (MIT Press)

By Adair Turner

Excerpt: Don’t Leave It to the Economists


How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life (Other Press)

By Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky

Excerpt: Exits from the Rat Race


Wait: The Art and Science of Delay (PublicAffairs)

By Frank Partnoy

Excerpt: The Cost of a Human Life, Statistically Speaking


The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy (John Wiley & Sons)

By Richard Duncan

Excerpt: Debunking The Global Savings Glut Theory


But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World (Hill and Wang)

By Gernot Wagner

Excerpt: Air Travel and Global Warming


Borrow: The American Way of Debt (Vintage)

By Louis Hyman

Excerpt: Ronald Reagan’s Raw Deal for America


A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (Basic Books)

By Luigi Zingales

Excerpt: A 21st-Century Italian Immigrant to America


Finance and the Good Society (Princeton University Press)

By Robert J. Shiller

Excerpt: The State of Finance: An Interim Assessment


Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

By Dmitri Trenin

Excerpt: The Russian Empire Is Gone For Good


The Coming Jobs War (Gallup)

By Jim Clifton

Excerpt: Who Is America’s Top Job Creator?


No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (Oxford University Press)

By Charles A. Kupchan

Excerpt: From the American Century to the Competition Century


Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power (Simon & Schuster)

By Andrew Nagorski

Excerpt: The Woman Who Prevented Hitler’s Suicide


Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (Viking)

By Ahmed Rashid

Excerpt: Pakistan on the Brink: All Crisis, No Potential?


The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India (Faber and Faber)

By Siddhartha Deb

Excerpt: Indian Women in the Big City


Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (Basic Books)

By Zbigniew Brzezinski

Excerpt: The Waning of the American Dream


Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World (PublicAffairs)

By Kwasi Kwarteng

Excerpt: Britain’s Legacy in the Middle East: Iraq’s Oil


The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond (Penguin)

By Jim O’Neill

Excerpt: China: The Optimistic BRIC

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