Richard N. Cooper

The increased pressures on the world’s resources and environment will require new and deeper forms of international cooperation.

Once one gets through the unnecessarily alarmist introductory material, this book offers a levelheaded discussion of possible measures to abate greenhouse gas emissions and the economic, social, and political obstacles to adopting those measures.

For those who like maps and numbers, this atlas illustrates the pressures bearing down on the world’s coasts and inshore waters and the pressures created, in turn, for people who live near coasts (most of the world’s population) and whose livelihoods depend directly or indirectly on the sea.

Drawing on his experience as a senior adviser at the International Monetary Fund, Elson describes and assesses the international financial architecture -- not simply the relations among national monetary authorities but also the whole set of official and quasi-official bodies and conventions charged with overseeing cross-border financial transactions.

This book, written by a Harvard physicist for people who remember some of their high school physics and are unfazed by numbers, provides quantitative answers to most of their questions about energy.

This book is a vigorous and well-researched polemic against financial deregulation and the offshore tax havens around the world that have come into widespread use in recent decades.

Kenny offers a lighthearted critical survey of what economists have had to say about the determinants of economic growth, but he argues that growth, although important and desirable, should not be the main objective.

Around the world, resistance to hostile takeovers is gradually crumbling, although at markedly different rates. Culpepper, a political scientist, tries to explain why this is so, focusing on public policy in France, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.

This delightful and quirky book explains in layman's terms the evolution of income inequality over the years, within countries and between countries.

In this book, Truman, a former long-serving official of the U.S. Federal Reserve, usefully arrays what facts are known about sovereign wealth funds, analyzes the legitimate concerns about them, and evaluates them according to a scorecard of desirable behavior.

This is an inspiring autobiographical story of an American of Indian origin who went to India to help the rural poor, first as a volunteer and then as the founder of a for-profit microfinance company, SKS (short for "self-help society" in Sanskrit).