Economic, Social, and Environmental
The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt spawn dozens of books. Here are two good early ones.
Having combed the peer-reviewed literature on climate change, Michaels and Balling conclude that much of the current public discussion of this important issue is extremely misleading.
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.
This specialized but important book examines, and questions, the compatibility of many cap-and-trade proposals with existing World Trade Organization rules.
The authors argue that there are far too many currencies and that the world needs an internationally accepted currency.
