2012 Selections
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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
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
Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power (Rowman and Littlefield)
By Frank Vogl
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
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
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
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
Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
By Dmitri Trenin
Excerpt: The Russian Empire Is Gone For Good
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
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
The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond (Penguin)
By Jim O’Neill
Excerpt: China: The Optimistic BRIC
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