Book Reviews
- Kenneth Arrow, et al.: Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
- race, intelligence, schooling, and equality of opportunity
- Anthony B. Atkinson: Inequality: What Can Be Done?
- a pragmatic analysis with practical suggestions
- Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo: Poor Economics
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie: Financial Calculus
An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
- Alan S. Blinder: Central Banking in Theory and Practice*
- lectures by an ex-Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
- Samuel Bowles: Microeconomics**
Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
- Samuel Bowles: The Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens
- Daryl Collins, et al.: Portfolios of the Poor
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
- Brad Cox: Superdistribution
Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier
- Diane Coyle: GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History
- changing definitions and applications
- Dan Davies: Lying For Money
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
- Hans-Dieter Evers, Heiko Schrader: The Moral Economy of Trade
Ethnicity and Developing Markets
- Duncan K. Foley: Adam's Fallacy
A Guide to Economic Theology
- John Kenneth Galbraith: The Culture of Contentment
- Keith Griffin: Poverty Reduction in Mongolia
- analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
- Tim Harford: The Logic of Life
Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
- Mark Harrison: The Economics of World War II
Six Great Powers in International Comparison
- Robert Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
- William Jack: Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries
- an abstract but accessible survey
- Rob Jenkins: Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
- the persistence of liberal economic reform in the 1990s
- Morten Jerven: Poor Numbers
How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to do About It
- Brian Kahin, James H. Keller: Coordinating the Internet
- governance, domain names, and interconnection agreements
- Steve Keen: Debunking Economics*
The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences
- Charles E. Lindblom: The Market System*
What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
- Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson: The (Mis)behavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
- Flavio M. Menezes, Paulo K. Monteiro: An Introduction to Auction Theory
- mathematically rigorous techniques and methods
- William Nordhaus: The Climate Casino*
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
- Debraj Ray: Development Economics
- a textbook survey
- Riccardo Rebonato: Coherent Stress Testing
A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Financial Stress
- Riccardo Rebonato: Plight of the Fortune Tellers*
Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
- Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom*
- broad-ranging popular economics
- Amartya Sen: Inequality Reexamined
- equality in political and economic philosophy
- Francis Spufford: Red Plenty*
Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
- Bob Sutcliffe: 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
- graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan*
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Immanuel Wallerstein: Review
- a journal of economies, historical systems, and civilizations
- Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level
Why Equality is Better for Everyone
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