Bibliography
Books on Globalization and Geopolitics
Hundreds of books have been written on globalization, and the Great Recession generated many new books dealing specifically with macroeconomics. The books listed below have provided me with various perspectives on how we got to where we are and where we might be going. My touchstone has always been the sustainability of whatever trend was the topic of the book.
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better, Christopher Steiner, 2009
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less, Garett Jones, 2020
2048, David Passig, 2012
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, Jorgen Randers, 2012
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari, 2018
Abundance, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, 2012
The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958, 1998
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, Jedediah Purdy, 2015
After the Empire, Emmanuel Todd, 2003
After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, Ben Rhodes, 2021
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, Richard A. Clarke, 2004
The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher, 2021
Age of Anger: A History of the Present, Pankaj Mishra, 2017
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart, Astra Taylor, 2023
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World, by Matthieu Ricard, 2013
America Alone, Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, 2004
America and the World, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft, 2008
America at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama, 2006
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips, 2006
American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent 2008-2020, George Will, 2021
America’s Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected World, by Rework America, 2015
America’s Promise Restored, Harlan Ullman, 2006
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, John Meacham, 2022
The Arrogance of Power, J. William Fulbright, 1966
The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, Stephen Breyer, 2021
Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen, 2013
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Jonathan Schneer, 2010
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast, 2002
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth’s Future, Paul Sabin, 2013
Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline, Daniel Gross, 2012
Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It, Robert B. Reich, 2012
Beyond the Age of Innocence, Kishore Mahbubani, 2005
Beyond the Crash, Gordon Brown, 2010
Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New “War on Terrorism” , As’ad AbuKhalil, 2002
Breaking the Real Axis of Evil, Mark Palmer, 2003
Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America’s Future, Newt Gingrich, 2013
The Bubble of American Supremacy, George Soros, 2004
The Business Solution to Poverty, Paul Polak, 2013
The Butterfly Defect: How Civilization Creates Systemic Risks and What to Do About It, Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan, 2014
Can Asians Think?, Kishore Mahbubani, 1998
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph A. Schumpeter, 1942
Capitalists, ARISE!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation, Peter Georgescu, 2017
The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles, 2017
The Case for Democracy, Natan Sharansky, 2004
The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum, 2005
The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay & Meaning to Everyone’s Work, Zeynep Ton, 2023
The Case for Peace, Alan Dershowitz, 2005
Civilization: The West and the Rest, Niall Ferguson, 2011
The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel P. Huntington, 1996
Clash of Civilizations?: Asian Responses, Salim Rashid, 1997
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman, 2015
Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country, E. J. Dionne, Jr., 2020
Common Wealth: Economics for a Small Planet, Jeffrey Sachs, 2008
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, David Runciman, 20123
The Conservative Soul, Andrew Sullivan, 2006
Cool War: The Future of Global Competition, Noah Feldman, 2013
The Crash Course, Chris Martenson, 2011
The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis, 2003
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Golden Age, Tim Wu, 2018
Dark Ages America, Morris Berman, 2006
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer, 2016
The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, Tom Nichols, 2017
The Democracy Advantage, Morton Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein, 2005
Democracy Rules, Jan-Werner Muller, 2021
Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, 1999
The Dignity of Difference, Jonathan Sacks, 2002
Disarming Iraq, Hans Blix, 2004
Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely, 2020
Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality, David Cay Johnston, 2014
Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, Kate Raworth, 2017
Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century, Gideon Rachman, 2016
Economic Justice in an Unfair World, Ethan B. Kapstein, 2006
The Economics of Enough, Diane Coyle, 2011
The Economics of Inequality, Thomas Piketty, 1997, 2015
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, Binyamin Appelbaum, 2019
The End of Growth, Martin Ford, 2009
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, 1992
The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth, James K. Galbraith, 2014
The End of the American Era, Charles A. Kupchan, 2002
The End of the Suburbs, Leigh Gallagher, 2013
Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm, 1941
Ethical Realism, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman, 2006
The Exponential age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society, Azeem Azhar, 2021
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, Kurt Andersen, 2017
Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright, 2018
Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming, William I. Antholis and Strobe Talbot, 2010
Fault Lines, Raghuram G. Rajan, 2010
Finishing Business, Harlan K. Ullman, 2004
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge, 2014
Free Lunch, David Cay Johnston, 2007
Free World, Timothy Garton Ash, 2004
Freefall, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2010
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman, 1989
From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy, Jean-Pierre Filiu, 2015
The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier, 2018
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Fareed Zakaria, 2003
The Future of Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 2011
glob-ali-za’-tion, Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn, 2009
Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2002
The Globalization of Inequality, Francis Bourguignon, 2015
The Globalization Paradox, Dani Rodrik, 2011
The Good Fight, Peter Beinart, 2006
Governing the World: The History of an Idea, Mark Mazower, 2012
A Grand Strategy for America, Robert J. Art, 2003
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History, Stephen D. King, 2017
The Great Convergence, Kishore Mahbubani, 2013
The Great Disruption, Paul Gilding, 2012
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2015
The Great Experiment, Strobe Talbott, 2008
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, Yascha Mounk, 2022
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, Walter Scheidel, 2017
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 2011
The Great Rebalancing, Michael Pettis, 2013
The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, 1944, 1957
Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism’s Money Masters, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and Samuel M. Katz, 2017
Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, Dani Rodrik, 1997
Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance, 2016
A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani, 1991
Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas L. Friedman, 2008
How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too), David P. Goldman, 2011
How Much Is Enough?, Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky, 2012
How the World Ran Out of Everything, Peter S. Goodman, 2024
How to Change the World, David Bornstein, 2004
The Human Web, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill, 2003
The Ideas That Conquered the World, Michael Mandelbaum, 2002
Imperial Hubris, Michael Scheuer, 2004
In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati, 2004
The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross, 2016
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovative Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It, by John Kao, 2007
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century, Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels, 2012
The Last Economic Superpower, Joseph P. Quinlan, 2011
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, The United States, and the World, Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwell, 2013
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, 1999
The Lights in the Tunnel, Richard Heinberg, 2011
Making Globalization Work, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2006
Merchant, Soldier, Sage, David Priestland, 2013
The Metaverse: How It Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball, 2022
The Middle East, Bernard Lewis, 1995
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists, Susan Neiman, 2008
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, Jonathan Sacks. 2020
A More Secure World, UN Panel, 2004
The Mystery of Capital, Hernando DeSoto, 2000
Myths, Illusions and Peace, Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, 2009
Naked Economics, Charles A. Wheelan, 2003
The Necessary Revolution, Peter Senge, 2008
The New American Story, Bill Bradley, 2007
The New Digital Age, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, 2013
The Next 100 Years, George Friedman, 2009
The Next Convergence, Michael Spence, 2011
The Next Decade, George Friedman, 2011
Nonzero, Robert Wright, 2000
Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 2015
Of Paradise and Power, Robert Kagan, 2003
On China, Henry Kissinger, 2011
On Globalization, George Soros, 2002
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder, 2017
The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the renewal of Work in America, Oren Cass, 2018
The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind, 2006
One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Peter Singer, 2002
Open Society, George Soros, 2000
The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course, Richard N. Haass, 2005
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, David Leonhardt, 2023
Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas, Marc Levinson, 2020
Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means For Our Country. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, 2023
The Paradox of American Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 2002
The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz, 2004
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers, Richard McGregor, 2010
The Past Is a Foreign Country, David Lowenthal, 1985
A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin, 1989
The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas P. M. Barnett, 2004
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, 2016
The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is In Danger & How to Save It, Yascha Mounk, 2018
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age, David E. Sanger, 2018
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal, 2002
Pinched, Don Peck, 2011
Plan B 3.0, Lester Brown, 2008
The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops – Or The Day Before, Edwin Black, 2008
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, 1952
The Plundered Planet, Paul Collier, 2010
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, Francis Fukuyama, 2014
The Politicians & the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics, Sean Wilentz, 2016
Politics Lost, Joe Klein, 2006
The Post American World, Fareed Zakaria, 2008
Poverty, By America, Matthew Desmond, 2023
The Power of Crisis, Ian Bremmer, 2022
Power Rules, Leslie H. Gelb, 2009
The Price of Civilization, Jeffrey Sachs, 2011
The Price of Inequality, Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2012
Prosperity Without Growth, Tim Jackson, 2009
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2011
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making Beyond the Numbers, John Kay and Mervyn King 2020
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson, 2020
Reset, Kurt Andersen, 2009
The Retreat of Liberalism, Edward Luce, 2017
The Return of History, Robert Kagan, 2008
The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century, Robert D. Kaplan, 2018
The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan, 2012
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Robert J. Gordon, 2016
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, Martin Ford, 2015
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Timothy Snyder, 2018
Rogue Nation, Clyde Prestowitz, 2003
Running on Empty, Peter G. Peterson, 2004
Saving Capitalism – For the Many, Not the Few, Robert B. Reich, 2015
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, Katharine Hayhoe, 2021
Second Chance, Zbigniew Brzezinski, 2007
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014
The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins, 2007
Seeing the Elephant, Peter Warder, 2009
A Short History of the World, H.G. Wells, 1922
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan, 2016
The Silent Takeover, Noreena Hertz, 2001
Soft Power, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 2004
The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2009
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy, Dani Rodrik, 2018
A Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee, 1957
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, Heather McGhee, 2021
SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed, Martin A Nowak, 2011
The Surprising Solution, Bruce Piasecki, 2009
Tailspin, Steven Brill, 2018
That Used To Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, 2011
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, Sarah Kendzior, 2022
A Theory of Global Capitalism, William I. Robinson, 2004
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, Naomi Klein, 2014
The Threat of Globalization to Arab Islamic Culture, Mohamed El-Shibiny, 2005
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth became the Enemy of Prosperity, Douglas Rushkoff, 2016
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America, James Traub, 2024
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum, 2020
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly, 2013
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?, Michael J Sandel, 2020
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It, Heather Boushey, 2018
Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East, Thomas L. Carothers and Marina Ottaway, 2005
Unconquerable Nation, Brian Michael Jenkins, 2006
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Tim Harford, 2014
Unfinished Business, Harlan Ullman, 2002
Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics, Michael Wolraich, 2014
The Upside of Down, Thomas Homer-Dixon, 2006
The Upswing: How America Came Together and How We Can Do It Again, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 2020
The War for Wealth, Gabor Steingart, 2008
The Way We’ll Be, John Zogby, 2008
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State, Kai Strittmatter, 2020
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, David P. Goldman, 2011
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society, Minouche Shafik, 2021
What Went Wrong?, Bernard Lewis, 2002
What’s Right with Islam, Faisal Abdul Rauf, 2004
When the Money Runs Out, Stephen D. King, 2013
Why Capitalism?, Allan H. Meltzer, 2012
Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij, 2005
Why the West Rules – For Now, Ian Morris, 2010
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Jeffrey Rubin, 2009
The World in 2050, Laurence C. Smith, 2010
The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman, 2005
World On Fire, Amy Chua, 2003
World Order, Henry Kissinger, 2014
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond, Daniel Susskind, 2020
You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy, Jake Rosenfeld, 2021
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Jeremy Rifkin, 2014
Zero-Sum Future, Gideon Rachman, 2011