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Cogs and Monsters: Is Economics Destined to Remain a Dismal Science?
In her bold new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Cambridge professor Diane Coyle offers a road map...
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp...
Plagues Upon the Earth: How Wealth Intersects With Mortality
Kyle Harper’s new book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, shows that the story of disease is entangled with...
The Future of Money: The Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies
"Money as we know it stands at the threshold of yet another major transformation in its long and storied history," writes Eswar Prasad in...
Mechanics and Financiers: How Political Economy and Political Ideology Helped Make Detroit the Global Leader of the Automotive Industry
The history of automotive mass production begins with a puzzle: Why did Detroit, of all places, pioneer the industry that would shape the twentieth...
Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private Property and...
Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking
According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...
