Economics
Economic Growth in Advanced Economies – The Long View
Book Review - An
Extraordinary Time by Marc Levinson
Money and Finance
Book Review - The
Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
Globalization – For the Intelligent Reader
Book Review – The Great Convergence: Information Technology
and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin
History/International Affairs
Lasting Consequences of American Adventures in the Middle
East
Book Review – Debriefing the President by John
Nixon
British Empire – Fact versus Fiction
Book Review - An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in
India by Shashi Tharoor
Book Review - The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the
Conquest of India by Jon Wilson
FT notes:
“But are the
achievements of empire really something to boast about? Those who think so will
cite the usual litany of railways built, sound laws conferred, economies
developed: civilising mission accomplished. But Jon Wilson, a specialist in
Indian history at King’s College London, disagrees. In India Conquered, Wilson
suggests that far from rescuing India from chaos, the British caused it. And
the pride many feel for that empire is really just the afterglow of the only
thing the Raj was outstandingly good at — boosterish propaganda.”
Science
Book Review – The Pope of Physics by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
http://www.wsj.com/articles/father-of-the-atomic-age-1477074176