Economic, Social, and Environmental
Wessel provides a lucid and informed account of the effects of the U.S. Federal Reserve's actions -- from the latter part of the Greenspan era through mid-2009 -- on the recent financial and economic crisis.
Wolmar has written an animated account of the history, evolution, and economic, social, political, and military significance of railroads since their invention in the 1820s.
This book assembles a data set spanning 66 countries and eight centuries, which the authors use to examine four kinds of financial crises: defaults on sovereign debt, banking crises, foreign exchange crises, and rampant inflation.
A seasoned financial regulator with experience in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, Sheng has written a fascinating insider's account of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 from the perspective of Hong Kong's central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
A motivating premise of this book is that there are large economic gains to be had from greater international migration, particularly that from poor countries to rich ones.
