Economic, Social, and Environmental
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 useful overview, Cline reviews the extensive and scattered economic literature on the contribution of financial openness to economic growth, correcting the mistaken impression that the literature provides little support for it.
Eichengreen, an economic historian, has written a brief and readable account of how the international monetary system got where it is today and of past efforts, both successful and (mainly) unsuccessful, to reform it.
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.
Together, these two books cover the evolution of the United Kingdom's currency since World War II.
