Naturally, everybody has made a New Year’s Resolution to read more economics books. Here are some forthcoming highlights. I’m starting with the university presses, and as ever favouritism as well as its excellent economics list means Princeton University Press kicks us off.
The PUP Spring 2016 catalogue highlights William Goetzmann’s
[amazon_image id=”B017MVYMSA” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”B017I2M8ZC” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691170495″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691165459″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691169160″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton Science Library)[/amazon_image]
Over at Yale University Press, there’s James Galbraith’s
[amazon_image id=”0300220448″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300163800″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lectures Series)[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300210981″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300194412″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]What They Do with Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix it[/amazon_image]
Oxford University Press has just released Deborah Brautigam’s
[amazon_image id=”B0146Y9TNE” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Will Africa Feed China?[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”B019GXM8V0″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0190460679″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”019875356X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]China as an Innovation Nation[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0199390630″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises[/amazon_image]
Cambridge University Press has fewer titles aimed at non-specialists. One that caught my eye was
[amazon_image id=”1107106850″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay for the Failure of American and European Banks?[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”1316503895″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth[/amazon_image]
MIT Press has a promising-looking catalogue. On macro, there’s what will be a must-read,
[amazon_image id=”026203462X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034581″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034379″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034484″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Disruption Dilemma[/amazon_image]
I will have to read
[amazon_image id=”0231175108″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0231172583″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Economic Thought: A Brief History[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0231173725″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Evolution of Money[/amazon_image]
Forthcoming from Harvard University Press are
[amazon_image id=”0674051149″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674660498″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674737237″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674504917″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law[/amazon_image]
[amazon_image id=”067473713X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674088824″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674088883″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772[/amazon_image]
Inevitably, this is only a partial list. If any publishers particularly want to flag up something I’ve omitted to readers of this blog please let me know – I’m happy to update this post, and one covering other publishers’ forthcoming titles will follow.
Just FYI, *Primates and Philosophers* came out in 2009—definitely not a new book.
https://books.google.com/books?id=PccMuO2pcOcC
ah, maybe just a new edition. But I’ve not read it; new to me 🙂
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Ms Coyle
Thanks for the update, although with 300+ books on my Amazon wishlist already you are not doing me any favours! as long as I can retire on time and live to be 120 I should get through them; always assuming they don’t publish any more.
It sounds like a very enjoyable way to spend retirement, but don’t hold you breath for no more books being published!
Diane, You should definitely be reading and reviewing the new book by Scott Sumner, “The Midas Paradox,” one of the most important books ever published on the Great Depression. Scott is one of the leaders of the group of thinkers known as “Market Monetarists,” whose views on monetary policy and advocacy of central banks targeting Nominal GDP is gaining adherents steadily.