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Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990

By Adam Przeworski (New York University), Michael E. Alvarez (DePaul University, Chicago), Jose Antonio Cheibub (Yale University, Connecticut), Fernando Limongi (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

By William Easterly

Africa: Diversity and Development

By Tony Binns, Etienne Nel, Alan Dixon

The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

By Niall Ferguson

The Greening of World Trade Issues

By Kym Anderson, Richard Blackhurst

Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class

By Robert Frank

The Economic History of Britain since 1700

By Roderick Floud (Provost, London Guildhall University), D. N. McCloskey (University of Iowa)

Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street

By Andrew Ross Sorkin

Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

By Nima Sanandaji

The Economist's Tale: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank

By Peter Griffiths

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

By Emily Yeh

Out of Pocket: How Collective Amnesia Lost the World Its Wealth, Again

By Clark McGinn

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World

By Nicholas Shaxson

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By Adam Tooze

The Economies of Africa and Asia During the Inter-war Depression

By Ian Brown

Struggle Is What Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism

By Vijay Prashad, Frank Barat

Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis

By Nicholas Crafts (University of Warwick)

The Betrayal of the American Dream

By Donald Barlett, James Steele

Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation

By Philippe Girard

The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

By David Pilling

Sustainable Agricultural Development: An Economic Perspective

By John M. Antle, Srabashi Ray

The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

By John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard

The Great British Reboot: How the UK Can Thrive in a Turbulent World

By Alex Brummer

The Global Consumer: High Street Shopping and the Third World

By Phil Wells, Mandy Jetter

Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

By Professor Steve Keen

Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives

By Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management

By Lowenstein, Roger

Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion-Dollar Meltdown

By Gillian Tett