Richard N. Cooper

This stimulating collection is built around Blinder's strong and much-debated thesis that within two decades, 30-40 million U.S. jobs, mainly those in the services industries that require no direct contact between the provider and the customer, could be sent offshore.

The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt spawn dozens of books. Here are two good early ones.

Over time, preferential trade agreements negotiated by the United States and the European Union have increasingly incorporated standards that do not relate directly to trade, especially ones involving human rights. This book explores the extent of this development, the reasons for it, and the consequences.

Modeled on an earlier collaboration on China between the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, this book provides an up-to-date overview of Russia's economic policy and political direction under the country's former president, Vladimir Putin, who is now prime minister.

This book traces the origins and evolution of privacy legislation in the computer era and argues that the presence of autonomous privacy agencies in Europe gave Europe an advantage in intergovernmental negotiations over the protection of privacy.

The political scientist Kehl here examines the influence of political institutions on the flow of benefits, direct and indirect, to developing-country hosts from Foreign direct investment.

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on the Great Depression.

This book provides a more popularized version of the Yale economist Shiller's earlier analyses of the U.S. housing market and his proposals for improvement, which involve not less but more financial innovation.

This interesting book explains in layman's terms why a global system is needed, why a global cap-and-trade system is unattainable, and why a partial system cannot accomplish the desired objective of limiting a rise in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.

The outgrowth of a television series, this breezy, fun-to-read book takes its readers from the earliest beginnings of money in ancient Babylon through the recent subprime mortgage crisis (up to May 2008).