Recommendations from our site
“Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton offers a more personal account in his book: Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality. It’s a collection of essays written over a quarter of a century but updated for the book. It’s a wide-ranging reflection on economics and the economics profession but ultimately downbeat about his adopted country: ‘The United States has become a darker society since I arrived in 1983. The hopes of the immigrant have been tempered by reality, but even more by the corruption of the American economy and its politics, a corruption that threatens our democracy.'” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis -
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman -
This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner -
The Passions and the Interests
by Albert Hirschman -
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S Landes
