What I'm Reading Now Index

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Here is an index to the books I've been reading listed from newest to oldest by review date. Click on the link to find the book review. You may have to scroll down the page to find the particular book you are looking for, but that's half the fun of "browsing" for books.

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350. Oxford University Press, 1989
Ash, Timothy Garten Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West.  Random House, 2004.
Bhagwati, Jagdish Free Trade Today. Princeton Unversity Press, 2002.
Bhagwati, Jagdish In Defense of Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Barabási, Albert-Lászlo Linked: The New Science of Networks. Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy. Ballantine Books, 2002
Bellos, Alex Futebol: Soccer, the Brazilian Way. Bloomsbury USA, 2002
Bernstein, William The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created.  McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Blustein, Paul The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF. Public Affairs, 2001.
Blustein, Paul And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina. Public Affairs, 2005.
Blyth, Mark Great Transformations: economic ideas and institutional change in the twentieth century. Cambridge University Press, 2002
Brooks, David Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Calleo, David P. Rethinking Europe's Future. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Cohen, Benjamin J. The Future of Money. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Cohn, Theodore Governing Global Trade: International institutions in conflict and convergence.  Ashgate, 2002.
Cohen, Daniel Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age. The MIT Press, 2003.
Cohen, Daniel Globalization and Its Enemies (translated by Jessica B. Baker).  MIT Press, 2006. (Originally published in French as Mondialisation et sais enemis by Editions Gasset & Fasquelle, 2004).
Cowen, Tyler Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World's Cultures. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Dam, Kenneth W. The Rules of the Global Game: A New Look at U.S. International Economic Policy. University of Chicago Press, 2001.
De Soto, Hernando The Mystery of Capital. Basic Books, 2000.
De Soto, Hernando The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism. Basic Books, 1989 (reprinted with a new Preface, 2002).
Dicken, Peter Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy 3/e. The Guilford Press, 1998.
Easterly, William The elusive quest for growth: economists' adventures and misadventures in the tropics.  MIT Press, 2001.
Emmott, Bill 20:21: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Fergusson, Niall Colossus: The Price of America's Empire.  Penguin: 2004
Foer, Franklin How Soccer Explains the World: An {Unlikelyt} Theory of Globalization.  HarperCollins, 2004.
Frank, Thomas One Market Under God: extreme capitalism, market populism, and the end of economic democracy. Doubleday 2000.
Frank, Robert H. Luxury Fever. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Frieden, Jeffrey Global Capitalism: It's Fall and Rise inthe Twentieth Century.  W.W. Norton, 2006.
Friedman, Benjamin M. The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Friedman, Thomas Flat World: A Brief History of the 21st Century.  FSG 2005.
Friedman, Thomas Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002.
Fugere, Brian, Chelsea Hardaway and Jon Warshawsky, Why Business People Speak Like Idiots. Free Press, 2006.
Gilpin, Robert Global Political Economy: understanding the international economic order. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gilpin, Robert The Challenge of Global Capitalism: the world economy in the 21st century. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Gilpin, Robert The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton University Press, 1987.
Gray, John The Two Faces of Liberalism New Press, 2000.
Greider,William The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy. Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Harford, Tim. The Undercover Economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor -- and why you can never buy a decent used car!  Oxford University Press, 2006.
Hobsbawm, Eric.  The Age of Extremes: A History of the World 1914-1991 Random House, 1996.
Hutton, Will and Anthony Giddens (editors) Global Capitalism, New Press, 2000..
Irwin, Douglas A. Against the Tide, An Intellectual History of Free Trade. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Irwin, Douglas A. Free Trade Under Fire. Princeton University Press, 2002.
James, Harold The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression. Harvard University Press, 2001.
James, Harold Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000.  Pearson/Longman, 2003.
James, Harold The Roman Predicament: How Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire.  Princeton University Press, 2006.
Kagan, Robert Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. Knopf, 2003.
 Kaplinsky, Raphel Globalization, Poverty and Inequality.  Polity Press, 2005.
Kay, John Culture and Prosperity:  The Truth about Marks – Why Some Nations are Rich  but Most Remain Poor. Harper Collins, 2004.
Kedward, Rod France and the French: A Modern History (Overlook, 2006).
Krugman, Paul Fuzzy Math: the essential guide to the Bush tax cut. W.W. Norton, 2001.
Krugman, Paul The Great Unraveling: Losing our way in the New Century. WW Norton, 2003.
LaFeber, Walter Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism. W.W. Norton, 1999.
Legrain, Philippe Open World: The Truth about Globalization. Published in Great Britain by Abacus, 2002
Levinson, Marc The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.  Princeton University Press, 2006.
Levitt, Steven D.& Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.  HarperCollins, 2005.
Lewis, Bernard What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lindblom, Charles E. The Market System: What it is, How it works, and What to make of it. Yale University Press, 2001.
Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. University of California Press, 2002.
Mandelbaum, Michael The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century. Public Affairs Books, 2002.
Marling, William H. How "Amerian" is Globalization?  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Mishkin, Frederic S. The New Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations can Harness their Financial System to Get Rich.  Princeton University Press, 2006.
Moran, Theodore H. Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Countries. Brookings Press, 2002.
Mueller, John Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. Princeton University Press, 1999.
Muller, Jerry Z. The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought. Knopf, 2002.
Newman, Robert The Fountain at the Center of the World. Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Nye, Joseph S.Jr. The Paradox of American Power: why the world's only superpower can't go it alone. Oxford University Press, 2002.
O'Sullivan, Meghan L. Shrewd Sanctions: Statecraft and State Sponsors of Terrorism. Brookings, 2003
Olson, Mancur Power and Prosperity. Basic Books, 2000.
O'Rourke, P.J. Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics.  Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
Parks, Tim A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals! Arcade, 2002.
Parks, Tim

Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence.  Norton, 2005.
Petrini,Carlo Slow Food: the case for taste. Translated from the Italian by William McCuaig. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Polanyi, Karl The Great Transformation: the political and economic origins of our time. (1944). Current edition: Beacon Press, 2001. Foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Raban, Jonathan  Waxwings.  Pantheon Books, 2003.
Rhode,  Paul W. and Gianni Toniolo, The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-run Perspective.  Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Riesman, David Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation Charles Scribners's Sons (1953).
Rivoli, Pietra The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy:  An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade.  John Wiley, 2005.
Rubin, Robert (with Jacob Weisberg), In an Uncertain Time: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington. Random House, 2003.
Sachs, Jeffrey The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time.  Penguin Press, 2005.
Severgnini, Beppe Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. Broadway Books, 2002. (Originally published in Italian as Un Italiano in America in 1995.)
Shy, Oz The Economics of Network Industries. Cambridge University Press, 2001
Singer, Peter One World: the Ethics of Globalization. Princeton University Press, 2002.
Skidelsky, Robert John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937-1946. London: Macmillan, 2000.
Skidelsky, Robert John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist Philosopher, Statesman. Macmillan, 2003.
Soros, George George Soros on Globalization. PublicAffairs, 2002.
Soros, George Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism. New York: Public Affairs Press, 2000.
Sowell, Thomas Basic Economics: a citizen's guide to the economy. Basic Books, 2000.
Standage, Tom A History of the World in Six Glasses.  Walker & Co., 2005.
Steger, Manfred B. Globalism: The New Market Ideology. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Stiglitz,  Joseph E.and Andrew Carlton,  Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development.  Oxford University Press, 2005.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and its Discontents. W.W. Norton, 2002.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Making Globalization Work. W.W. Norton, 2006.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Roaring Nineties: a new history of the world's most prosperous decade. W.W. Norton, 2003.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Whither Socialism. MIT Press, 1996.
Thurow, Lester C. Building Wealth: the new rules for individual, companies, and nations in a knowledge-based economy. HarperCollins, 1999.
Thurow, Lester C. Fortune Favors the Bold: What we must do to build and new and lasting global prosperity. HarperCollins, 2003.
Tufte, Edward C.  Beautiful Evidence.  Graphic Press (www.edwardtufte.com ), 2006.
Vernon, Raymond In the Hurricane's Eye: the troubled prospects of multinational enterprises. Harvard University Press, 1998.
Veseth, Michael Globaloney: Unraveling the Myths of Globalization.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Weinstein, Michael (editor) Globalization: What's New.  Columbia University Press, 2005.
Wolf, Martin Why Globalization Works. Yale University Press, 2004.
Wolff, Alexander Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure. Warner Books, 2002.
Wright, Robert Non-Zero: the Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
Zachary, G. Pascal Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge (2000).
Zemtzov, Boris The Merry Baker of Riga: an American entrepreneur ventures into Eastern Europe.  Stanford Oak Press, 2004.
 Not Verdi, no not at all! Aida: The Musical by Elton John (music), Tim Rice (lyrics) with book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang.
 
 

Michael Veseth
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