A quick browse through some of the publishers’ catalogues reveals plenty of enticing new books due out this winter and spring. I’ll start with a selection from some of the university presses.
From my own publisher Princeton University Press, a lot of economics and finance titles coming out. One I’ve read in proof and will be reviewing is The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy by Michael Pettis, an outstanding book. Others that look enticing are Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson; Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman; and The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil.
The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy
Yale University Press will be bringing out Stephen King’s When The Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence; and at the same time (May) Timothy Beardson’s Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China’s Future. Sounds like they need to be read as a pair. I also like the look of Emma Griffin’s Liberty’s Dawn: A People’s History of the Industrial Revolution.
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
Oxford University Press has forthcoming books looking at a couple of very important issues, global governance and corporate governance. There’s Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it by Ian Goldin; and Firm Commitment Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it by Colin Mayer.
Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it
At Cambridge University Press, the range of titles includes quite a few that intrigue me: Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development by William Milberg and Deborah Winkler; An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups and Networks by Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster; and Wall Street Values: Business Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis by Michael A. Santoro and Ronald J. Strauss are among them.
An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks
In the spring, the University of Chicago Press is bringing out a new book by the excellent science writer Philip Ball, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. I’m very interested in Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics by Robert Fogel; and somewhat interested in both The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America by Gail Radford; and The Great Inflation: The Rebirth of Modern Central Banking by Michael D. Bordo.
Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
