Summer 2017 Book Recommendations

Summer Reading List – Book Recommendations

Listed by Subject Area/Topic

Best new book on globalization:

The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin

Thought-provoking book on technology, jobs and the future:

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century by Ryan Avent

Interesting historical study:

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

The Inequality Debate:

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality by Heather Boushey (Editor), J. Bradford DeLong (Editor), Marshall Steinbaum (Editor)

Finance – Great Summer Reads:

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar

Emerging Markets:

Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong by Yukon Huang

India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity by Vijay Joshi

Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power by Michael Reid         

Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia by Thane Gustafson     

Science:

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky