Richard N. Cooper

Science & Technology   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution—and Why America Might Miss It

This trenchant and personal book describes the powerful benefits that result from bringing ultrafast fiber-optic Internet cables directly to households and small firms.

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Globalization   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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The Willing World: Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity

Bacchus champions free foreign trade and free foreign investment, as long as they are subject to international rules and the right institutions are set up to settle...

Richard N. Cooper

Globalization   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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Discreet Power: How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas

In this informative study, Garsten and Sorbom explore both the inner workings and the communication strategies of the WEF.

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Science & Technology   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work

This speculative book attempts to describe the future of work and explain how to prepare for it.

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Monetary Issues   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

This masterly exposition of the history of economic thought—and the context in which it developed—goes back to the seventeenth century but concentrates on the last...

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Labor   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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Outsourcing Welfare: How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries

This illuminating book addresses an important but often overlooked consequence of international migration: remittances sent by immigrants to relatives in their...

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Environment   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition

Aklin and Urpelainen persuasively argue that a combination of domestic politics and external shocks, such as the OPEC oil price hikes of the mid-1970s and the 1986...

Richard N. Cooper

Economics   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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World Inequality Report 2018

This is the latest installment of an ongoing effort by a team of economists to assemble and refine data on the distribution of income and wealth within and across many...

Richard N. Cooper

Business   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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Mastering Catastrophic Risk: How Companies Are Coping With Disruption

This interesting book uses interviews and case studies from the business world to identify 21 categories of risk faced by publicly traded companies and to draw useful...

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Economic Development   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which identify 169 targets for the world to hit by 2030. Lomborg’s think tank, the...

Richard N. Cooper

Economics   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

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Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships

Buffett and Eimicke draw on examples of successful public-private partnerships (as well as some not-so-successful ones) to explain how policymakers should go about...

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Economics   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

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The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

Ghemawat aims his advice at businesspeople (and business students), but his work will also enlighten readers outside the business world who want to understand...

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Law & Institutions   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

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Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

Tucker’s thoughtful disquisition on democracy in modern societies focuses on the relationships between citizens and various branches of the state.

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Environment   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North

Serreze has written a highly personal account of his experience as an environmental scientist researching the high Arctic, in particular the shrinkage of Arctic ice...

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Economics   September/October 2018 Capsule Review

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The Infinite Desire for Growth

Cohen has produced a breathtaking overview of the history and evolution of humanity and human society—and a sobering essay on the future of civilization.

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Environment   May/June 2018 Capsule Review

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Winning Together: The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook

For decades, a history of mutual suspicion and recrimination between Mexico and the United States stymied cooperation on three resources that cross national land and...

Richard N. Cooper

Politics & Society   May/June 2018 Capsule Review

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Bioinformation

Who owns an individual’s personal medical information?

Richard N. Cooper

Economics   May/June 2018 Capsule Review

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The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

Pilling charts an unpleasant voyage of discovery. After spending years writing about trends in countries’ GDP growth as a journalist, the author has discovered what...

Richard N. Cooper

Environment   May/June 2018 Capsule Review

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Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

Ultimately, human civilization will have to be powered mainly by solar energy. 

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Economics   May/June 2018 Capsule Review

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Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy

At a time when Washington’s approach to trade seems poised to undergo a significant shift, this magisterial book surveys the entire history of U.S. trade policy since...

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