Friday evening is a time for settling on the sofa with the magazines and catalogues that have arrived during the week, and last night it was the next season’s catalogue for Harvard University Press. There are some terrific upcoming offerings. Top of my list will be Richard Baldwin’s [amazon_link id=”067466048X” target=”_blank” ]The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization[/amazon_link]. His papers on the successive ‘unbundlings’ in production driving global trade are wonderful.

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Plenty of others look enticing too. [amazon_link id=”0674743806″ target=”_blank” ]Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent [/amazon_link]by Brooke Harrington – a study of the professional advisers who make global inequality possible. [amazon_link id=”0674659686″ target=”_blank” ]The Market as God[/amazon_link] by Harvey Cox looks intriguing, theology meets economics. [amazon_link id=”0674059786″ target=”_blank” ]Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth and Belonging Since 1500[/amazon_link] by Charles S Maier – “territorial boundaries transform geography into history,” says the blurb. [amazon_link id=”0674737296″ target=”_blank” ]China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay[/amazon_link] by Minxin Pei will be a must-read for China-watchers. Also interesting-looking is [amazon_link id=”0674971132″ target=”_blank” ]Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China[/amazon_link] by Julian Gewirtz.

[amazon_image id=”0674743806″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674659686″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Market as God[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674059786″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging Since 1500[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674737296″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674971132″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China[/amazon_image]

[amazon_link id=”0674545478″ target=”_blank” ]VIrtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy[/amazon_link] by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke will be one for competition policy and IO folks. So too a recent title, [amazon_link id=”0674971426″ target=”_blank” ]Antitrust Law in the New Economy: Google, Yelp, LIBOR, and the Control of Information[/amazon_link] by Mark Patterson.

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One for all newshounds, [amazon_link id=”0674545508″ target=”_blank” ]Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism[/amazon_link] by James Hamilton. And for all Camus fans, I spotted the backlist title [amazon_link id=”0674724763″ target=”_blank” ]A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning[/amazon_link] by Robert Zaretsky.

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