Economic, Social, and Environmental
This highly readable book focuses on the ideas that informed the actors who contributed to the financial crisis of 2008.
The author of the authoritative three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes provides here a welcome short introduction to Keynesian economics, which he argues is still relevant to the modern U.S. economy.
In this book, the Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist and philosopher Sen departs from much of the recent philosophical discourse on the concept of justice, usefully drawing not only on Western philosophy but also on the wisdom of ancient Asian thinkers.
The authors, both from the Columbia Business School, have a strong thesis: that the best way, really the only effective way, to reduce poverty around the world is by fostering private business.
This book compares the U.S. social security system to others (it fares rather well) and explores whether reforms in other countries are applicable to the United States.
