Easterbrook (author of The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worseon)on the American Standard of Living- via EconTalk.
Erin Brockovich
Science writer Michael Fumento looks at Erin Brockovich, the movie and the person. He believes the Hinkley case portrayed in the movie had an unfortunate outcome, as Chromium 6 in drinking water has not been linked to causing cancer
Inside the Economist's Mind, coedited by Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett- see also the book's blog.
Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
Josef Joffe assesses the rise of American power since the end of the Cold War from a remarkably sympathetic vantage point
The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
Ian Bremmer describes the political and economic forces that revitalize some states and push others toward collapse. He concludes that political isolation and sanctions often work against their intended results and that globalization is the key to opening closed authoritarian states
Making Globalization Work- Stiglitz
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Niall Ferguson
THE TRADING SYSTEM IN CRISIS: The Threat from Proliferating Preferences
Jagdish Bhagwati
SEX CHROMOSOMES & THE FUTURE OF MEN
Professor Jenny Graves
Identity and Violence- Amartya Sen
INDIA AS AN EMERGING ECONOMIC POWER: Potential and Constraints
Professor B.B. Bhattacharya
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