Best books of 2025: Economics Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

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Can the Global Economy Be Healed? A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.

A Harvard economist argues that there are three defining economic challenges of our time: restoring the middle class in the U.S. and other Western countries; reducing poverty in countries that are still impoverished; and tackling climate change.

SHARED PROSPERITY IN A FRACTURED WORLD | Kirkus Reviews A thoughtful consideration of how to promote democracy, sustainability, and prosperity in a world riven by dislocation and conflict.

ICYMI: Kirkus Reviews praises @drodrik.bsky.social's Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: “A thoughtful consideration of how to promote democracy, sustainability, & prosperity in a world riven by dislocation & conflict. . . . A closely reasoned—& pragmatic—call for remaking the world’s economy.”

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"I'll offer my own endorsement from the [New York Times Notable] 100: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. It covers arguably the single most alarming development in American life, one that helps explain the frustration pulsing through the country: In many communities, people are not living as long as their parents did." --David Leonhardt, New York Times

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism offers a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class.

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This is also what mass deportation looks like - the state harassing and humiliating citizens. These kinds of stories can further turn the public against already unpopular policies.

R. Jisung Park

Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World by R. Jisung Park

Tomorrow (March 25) at 8 pm CET: Please join De Dépendance and OASE Rotterdam in welcoming R. Jisung Park to discuss his book Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World.

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Book interview: The Economics of Over-the-Counter Markets YouTube video by SaMMF

Many thanks to Bruno and Ioannis for taking the time to talk with Pierre, Julien, and I about our new book, The Economics of Over-the-Counter Markets, now available for pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social

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President Trump has adopted William McKinley as a role model. But in purloining a simplistic version of McKinley’s attitudes toward tariffs, Trump is ignoring the valuable lessons they have to offer. nyer.cm/9wzzZty

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Too Close for Comfort | Caitlin Zaloom Why are economists are in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?

"Question the unstated alliance between 'those who benefit from the status quo and those whose way of thinking about the world tends to defend it.'"

Great three-book review on the role of economics in policy.

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Love the honesty in this intro/endorsement by Benny Goodman. “This book… contains a certain number of songs which I did not like then, have subsequently forgotten, and, frankly speaking, am not remotely tempted to add to my repertoire.”

Read a sample chapter of Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World by R. Jisung Park. Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations. Discover how we can begin to overcome our climate anxiety.

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Important new @princetonupress.bsky.social econ book!

Great nostalgia chart...

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Insightful interview with @davidmwessel.bsky.social on the economy and Trump (with a nice mention of @douglasirwin.bsky.social)

And a masterclass in communicating some complicated but important concepts.

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Best Nonfiction of 2024 Moving memoirs, historical accounts, lively performing arts books, and scientific inquiries number among these real-world reads.

Glad to see Jisung Park's Slow Burn on this great list: www.libraryjournal.com/story/Best-N...

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The Hidden Victims by Cormac Ó Gráda

Wonderful to see Hidden Victims by Cormac Ó Gráda recommended by @fotoole.bsky.social as an @irishtimes.bsky.social Best Book of the Year. Read more about the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...