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Economic Development   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Industrial Policy and the World Trade Organization: Between Legal Constraints and Flexibilities

Shadikhodjaev's informative book describes what forms of industrial policy are consistent with the rules of the World Trade Organization.

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Political Economy   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

Widening social divisions, Paul Collier suggests, have made individualism unsustainable.

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Trade   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future

Louise Shelley comprehensively documents the growth and evolution of illicit commerce and the history of efforts to fight it.

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Public Opinion   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement

Neeraj Kaushal lays out discrepancies between public beliefs about immigrants and the facts and discusses why these gaps persist.

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U.S. Foreign Policy   May/June 2019 Capsule Review

Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

A frugal and charming autobiography filled with illuminating stories from Volcker’s seven decades of public service.

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Economic Development   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

A Political Economy of the United States, China, and India: Prosperity With Inequality

Sharma compares economic growth and inequality in the world’s three most populous countries—China, India, and the United States—and then draws connections to...

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Business   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia

This informative book examines in detail three attempts to replicate Silicon Valley—in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan—and draws on the experiences of related...

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Climate Change   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

Carbon Capture

This useful little book explains in simple terms the various methods of capturing and then storing the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and factories and how...

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Economics   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

Broken Bargain: Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street

Day tells the story of U.S. banking since the beginning of the American republic, emphasizing the bargain that she says was struck after the banking crisis of 1930–33.

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Economics   March/April 2019 Capsule Review

The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World

In the United States and elsewhere, D’Aveni predicts, manufacturing will accelerate over the next decade and come to dominate the economy.

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Science & Technology   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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

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...

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Globalization   January/February 2019 Capsule Review

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

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

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

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

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...

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Economics   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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...

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Business   November/December 2018 Capsule Review

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

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...

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