Nationalekonomi

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field“A whistle-stop …

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise   “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell …

A bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world economy   After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. …

An updated and refreshed edition of the groundbreaking book that shows how people can be nudged toward decisions that will improve their lives  “If you’ve read Nudge and think you …

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?   Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From …

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development   A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 …

An accessible, contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences  “Causation versus correlation has been the basis of …

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field  “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sorts of sports as …

An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China …

A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries  “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative …