Economics

Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah provide a meticulously researched work that stands at the intersection of economics, political philosophy and public administration to present an easily digestible book lays out the art and the science of the policymaking.

Stefan Dercon takes a look at how development has been achieved across the world, and how to assist such successes....

Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire....

Western political discourse on cybersecurity is dominated by news of Chinese military development of cyberwarfare capabilities and cyber exploitation against foreign governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Western accounts, however, tell only one side of the story.

Una frattura si allarga sempre di più. L'abbiamo ignorata, sottovalutata, creduta lontana, eppure da cinquant'anni si amplia e si...

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates....

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....

The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade....

In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians, V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioral economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are....

In recent years, investors have learned the hard truth that, in the international economy, politics often matters at least as much as economic fundamentals....

During the twentieth century, Vietnam and Poland were both victims not only of devastating wars, but also of socialist planned economies that destroyed whatever war hadn’t already.

In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years....

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next....

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat....

Vor einigen Jahren begann Ray Dalio beunruhigende politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen zu bemerken, denen er in seiner 50-jährigen...

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world's most secretive global financial institution.

Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis....

The 21st century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic....

An authoritative, insightful, and highly engaging history of the twentieth-century global economy, Global Capitalism has been updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century.

Jagdish Bhagwati takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today....

China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite....

In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble....