This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States

A well-researched though incomplete work that focuses more on productivity than humanity

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

How the lives of the poor have improved in the last half-century — and how that progress can continue.

Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn’t Work without a Strong Middle Class

How we lost our middle class and why we need it back.

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

A journalist follows the recycling trade around the world.

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

How the megastore's founder grew his tiny startup into an online behemoth.

By Dambisa Moyo

How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly ― and the Stark Choices Ahead

Aging capitalist countries with failing institutions and irrational policies face off against the discipline, focus, and energy of emerging economies.

Branko Milanovic

The Haves and the Have-Nots

Branko Milanovic's brief and idiosyncratic history of inequality around the globe