Books by Gregory Makoff
writes about sovereign debt and government policy on the Fool Me Twice Substack newsletter and is the author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring (Georgetown 2024). He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago (1993), B.Sc. degrees in physics and political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986), is a CFA® charter holder, and worked for over twenty years in banking, government, and as a debt policy expert.
“Default by Gregory Makoff takes on Argentina’s 2001 default, and the battle over the restructuring of $100 billion in debt. On the face of it, it seems like a niche subject, but it’s one way of getting insight into how capitalism works—the billions at stake and what some players do to get their hands on that money. Don’t dismiss Argentina as a faraway case of no relevance to the country you live in: some of those players are active in government and other debt near you. Perhaps they even own your country’s biggest bookstore chain.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Interviews where books by Gregory Makoff were recommended
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Growth: A History and a Reckoning
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How Economics Explains the World (US)/ The Shortest History of Economics (UK)
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrongfnew ec
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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
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Money Capital: New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society
by Haizhou Huang & Patrick Bolton
New Economics Books
New Economics Books
Lots of new economics books are published each year, catering to a range of readers. Many are aimed at non-economists, trying to explain what the subject is about. Others focus mainly on how economics has been interpreted or used by politicians, with lots of analysis of ‘neoliberalism’ in particular over the past few years. Within academia, economics is normally expressed in equations, with new work published in article form and only occasionally as books.
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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
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The Roads to Rome: A History of Imperial Expansion
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
by Gregory Makoff
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024, recommended by Sophie Roell
Notable Nonfiction Books of Mid-2024, recommended by Sophie Roell
From a dynasty that ruled ancient Egypt to the 1986 space shuttle disaster, from the fight to get rich from spices in the 16th century to making billions from bankrupt countries in the 21st century, Five Books editor Sophie Roell gives an overview of the new nonfiction books that have appeared since April.
