A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind Reviews from The New York Times and The Atlantic. From the publisher: “From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it. “From mechanical looms […]
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made by Jim Newton From the publisher: “One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century […]
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo From the publisher: “The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. “Figuring out how to deal […]
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization by Martin Puchner From the publisher: “The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world […]
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker From the publisher: “John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America’s most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America’s “private wealth and public squalor” to his denunciation of the […]
American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Greg Weiner From Amazon summary: “Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) may be best known as a statesman. He served in the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford; was ambassador to India and the United […]
Oliver Wendell Holms: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas by Stephen Budiansky From the publisher: “The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice. “Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls […]
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind by Raghuram Rajan From the publisher: “Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India’s central bank, and author of the 2010 FT-Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault […]
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard From the publisher: “James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. […]
The Ideas that Made America: A Brief History by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen From the Publisher: “Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this […]