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Every year a slew of new economics books are published. But which ones are actually worth reading? We’ve picked out some of the books that have recently hit the shelves or are out in the next few months and explain what we like about them and why they’re worth reading. (We’ve also included economics books that are new in paperback).

Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System by Paul Blustein
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Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System

by Paul Blustein

Paul Blustein looks at the consequences of China’s accession to the WTO in 2001.  He explores the impact on the global economy and the dynamics of global trade.

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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, authors of Why Nations Fail, explore the conditions under which liberty thrives and why some countries fail to establish a stable free society.

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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by E. Glen Weyl & Eric A. Posner
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by E. Glen Weyl & Eric A. Posner

Professor Eric A Posner and E Glen Weyl argue that markets can be a force for radical change, helping to tackle inequality, economic stagnation and political instability.

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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

by Quinn Slobodian

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“This book is about the philosophical origins of neoliberalism in 1930s Vienna and logical positivism and how it spread globally, particularly into Anglo-Saxon and American universities, and also about the way it underpinned the philosophy of globalization that we have seen take over the world since the 1980s. It’s really interesting to understand that the ideas that we think of as ‘natural’ actually have very specific historic and cultural origins. They spread through actual social networks and institutions. The book therefore also offers insight into how you can change that public philosophy.” Read more...

The Best Economics Books of 2019

Diane Coyle, Economist

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

by Eric Klinenberg

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“This is about what social scientists call ‘social capital’, so the social assets or strengths that any community has to draw on in delivering economic improvements or quality of life etc. It’s about libraries in particular, but also other social infrastructure that enables people to meet and understand each other and have safe and inviting ways to help each other. He talks about how these are being eroded through things like library closures or parks not being maintained, or just the design of public spaces in modern cities.” Read more...

The Best Economics Books of 2019

Diane Coyle, Economist

Extreme Economies by Richard Davies
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Extreme Economies

by Richard Davies

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“This book is a series of rip-roaring tales about what you might classify as ‘informal’ economies in different contexts and the way that some of them work really well and some of them work really badly. The compare and contrast gives you real insights into what perhaps makes a formal, official economy work very well or very badly.” Read more...

The Best Economics Books of 2019

Diane Coyle, Economist

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell

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“there’s a whole clutch of AI books…People want to understand what’s going on. Human Compatible is a really clearly written one. It explains enough about how AI works, but also what some of the challenges are.” Read more...

The Best Economics Books of 2019

Diane Coyle, Economist

Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy by Diane Coyle
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Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy

by Diane Coyle

“It’s billed as a textbook and it’s built on a course that I developed myself and have been teaching for some years. But it’s not technical and I hope is well enough written that anybody could enjoy reading it…What I try to do is demonstrate that there are some problems and some circumstances in which there isn’t a single right answer about how you do things, and there are choices and trade-offs to be made.”

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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

by Carl Benedikt Frey

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“Carl’s work is about what the impact of this new wave of technology and automation is going to be on everybody’s jobs and standards of living. He does that by taking a historical perspective and looking at the Industrial Revolution. The fact is that for quite a long period there wasn’t any increase in average standards of living and indeed, as we know from literature, there was a period of great misery for lots of people as they moved from the countryside to work in the mills and so on. The question he’s asking is, ‘Is it going to be the same this time? Is history going to repeat itself?’ and ‘Are there things we can try and think about in terms of policy that will stop history repeating itself?’” Read more...

The Best Economics Books of 2019

Diane Coyle, Economist

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J Shiller
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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events

by Robert J Shiller

In this book Nobel-prize winning economist Robert J Shiller looks at the influence of popular story-telling (narratives) on economic activity and explores how research in this area could improve our understanding of financial crashes and other major economic events.

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