It’s the time of year when I try to flag up interesting-looking titles out in the next six months or so. There’s a feast of reading coming up. This post has been updated thanks to many suggestions from people on Twitter.
Starting with my own publisher, Princeton University Press, one imminent highlight is the 3rd and expanded edition of Robert Shiller’s 
. I am *really* looking forward to reading Dirk Philipsen’s
. Francois Bourgignon’s
is due in May, Cormac O Grada’s
in April. There’s also Gernot Wagner & Martin Weitzman’s forthcoming
. Outside economics,
by Vincenzo Ferrone and
by Scott Montgomery and Daniel Chirot look enticing. For professional reasons I’ll want to read the new edition of the Stiglitz and Atkinson
that’s out in April. Outside my field but very timely, a second edition of Jordi Gali’s Monetary Policy, Inflation and the Business Cycle: An introduction to the New Keynesian framework.
[amazon_image id=”0691166528″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”069116052X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Globalization of Inequality[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691150648″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World[/amazon_image]
From MIT Press, Nick Stern has a follow-up to his big climate change report, in
by Joachim Weimann, Andreas Knabe, and Ronnie Schöb. On crises,
by Assaf Razin;
by Xavier Freixas, Luc Laeven, and José-Luis Peydró. From the ever-interesting Vaclac Smil,
. Outside economics, I like the look of
by Katy Börner, and
edited by Paul Shaw. There’s also a cultural history of the shipping container,
by Alexander Klose (regular readers of this blog will know of my fetish for containers).
OUP is bringing us quite a lot of interesting titles on its forward list:
by Taylor Owen;
by Christian Dustmann;
by David B. Audretsch;
by Brian Epstein; Choosing Not to Choose:
by Cass R. Sunstein;
by Gary B. Gorton; a book of essays
by Amartya Sen; and
by Barry Eichengreen.
[amazon_image id=”0199922624″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism[/amazon_image]
Two coming up from Yale University Press really interest me: Dieter Helm’s
by Meghnad Desai, about what the crash has revealed about the state of economics.
From Cambridge University Press, a must-read for me will be
by Gian Andrea Pagnoni & Stephen Roche and
by J Boume and P Van Beukering. There’s also
, Karl Gunnar Persson and Paul Sharp. A more technical one to look forward to is Causal Inference in Statistics by Guido Imbens and Donald Rubin.
[amazon_image id=”1107070783″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]British Economic Growth, 1270-1870[/amazon_image]
Later in the Year, Harvard University Press is publishing The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism by David Kotz; and as a paperback Angus Burgin’s 2012 book The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. In April, we get Anthony Atkinson’s Inequality: What Can Be Done. I’ll want to read also From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer Industry by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz. Brandon Garrett’s
, which sounds really intriguing.
[amazon_image id=”0674368312″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674368274″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information[/amazon_image]
Beyond the university presses, Norton is publishing Citizen Coke: The making of Coca Cola capitalism by Bartow Elmore, and
[amazon_image id=”0393241122″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Citizen Coke – The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism[/amazon_image]
Cesar Hidalgo’s Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies from Penguin sounds unmissable too. I like the sound of Philip Roscoe’s
. James Rickard is predicting The Death of Money: The coming collapse of the international monetary system – the UK paperback edition of a US bestseller.
John Kay’s books are also must-reads. He has Other People’s Money – about redesigning the financial system for the people not for it’s own participants – out in September (Profile in the UK, Public Affairs in the US).
From Harper Collins, we will get
Alvin Roth has a terrific-looking book out from Houghton Mifflin, Who Gets What – and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design. It’s due in June.
[amazon_image id=”0544291131″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Who Gets What — And Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design[/amazon_image]
From Routledge in January, Morten Jerven’s
.
Metro Books will be publishing in January
Picked up from the papers this weekend: Roberto Savaiano,
[amazon_image id=”1846147697″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Zero Zero Zero[/amazon_image]
Little Brown will publish Mervyn King’s Alchemy or Achilles’ Heel? Money and Banking in Modern Capitalism in the autumn; the press release says: “The book will argue that although reform of the banking system is needed, the present crisis is not one of banking alone, but of ideas. Assessing the proper role of money and the implications of the massive growth in banking, and giving his views on managing uncertainty, the power of markets, monetary unions and the role of central banks, this will be a landmark and important book about where we are now, and where we should go next.” Ben Bernanke is also due to publish a book about his time at the Fed.
Little Brown is also the publisher of Will Hutton’s
[amazon_image id=”1408705311″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country[/amazon_image]
Basic is publishing Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of A Jobless Future in April.
[amazon_image id=”1480574724″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future[/amazon_image]
Finally, in my hands now, forthcoming from Icon Books, is It’s Not About the Shark: How to Solve Unsolvable Problems by David Niven. I’ll report back on whether it has the answer.
As always, if you’re a publisher and I’ve missed something exciting, let me know and I’ll update this!
Update: Gary Karz of Investor Home has sent me his list of books on the financial crisis – a really great resource, which includes upcoming titles as well.
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Looking forward especially to Sen, Stiglitz/Atkinson re-release, Atkinson, Imbens/Rubin (which may already be available), and Bourgignon.
But my main comment is about the torrential flood of books from Cass Sunstein. Does anyone _not_ think there is some self-serving, non-academic, non-intellectual motive behind the torrent? Does Sunstein take papers (which would receive a comparatively narrow readership) and just turn them into books? I’ve read a few of these, and they rarely rise above the level aggregation of the work of others. A variation on Malcolm Gladwell — without the gift for writing.
About the composer Antonio Vivaldi, champions said that he wrote over 500 pieces of music. Critics said he wrote the same music 500 times.
According to Stravinsky, Vivaldi wrote the same concert 600 times. Of course, Stravinsky was wrong.
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