Politics and Government
Statecraft, elections, law, policy, geopolitics and the workings and failings of political institutions. Read by citizens, policymakers and anyone following how power is won and used.
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John Maynard Keynes · 1919 · Written before the fact by a Treasury insider; the reparations arithmetic that set up the collapse.
Eric Hoffer · 1951 · Mass movements and the psychology of the true believer
Thomas C. Schelling · 1960 · Commitment, threats and bargaining; the founding text of strategic conflict
Milton Friedman · 1962 · Friedman's most systematic statement of the classical-liberal case: that economic and political freedom are inseparable, and that government intervention, however well-intentioned, typically produces worse outcomes than markets. Controversial on education vouchers and monetary policy; influential on both.
Donald Horne · 1964 · The complacency critique that named the national economic problem.
Alfred E. Kahn · 1970 · The standard theory of rate base, allowed return and marginal-cost pricing.
Robert A. Caro · 1974 · Robert Moses and the politics of who gets to build and toll public assets.
Richard A. Posner · 1976 · The Chicago School's economic reformulation of doctrine.
Milton Friedman · 1980 · The popular companion to Capitalism and Freedom, written with Rose Friedman. More accessible and more polemical. Best read as a rhetorical document as much as an economic one — it shows how free-market ideas get translated into public argument, for better and worse.
Chalmers A. Johnson · 1982 · The founding text on the developmental state and industrial policy.
Thomas K. McCraw · 1984 · Pulitzer history of the people who built American utility regulation.
Marc Reisner · 1986 · The canonical account of western water politics and who ended up owning it.
Hernando de Soto · 1989 · Field measurement of Lima's informal economy and the cost of legality; the founding text.
Robert Wade · 1990 · The canonical study of Taiwanese industrial policy and state-led investment.
János Kornai · 1992 · The definitive anatomy of the command economy, by the Hungarian economist who named its pathologies.
Terry Lynn Karl · 1997 · The founding petro-state study, built on Venezuela; why oil deforms institutions.
James C. Scott · 1998
Lee Kuan Yew · 2000 · The founder's own account of how the development strategy was chosen.
Hernando de Soto · 2000 · Generalises the Peruvian findings into a theory of dead capital and titling.
Robert A. Caro · 2002 · Caro on Johnson's mastery of an institution's levers and incentives
Allan H. Meltzer · 2003 · The institutional history from the inside of the minutes.
Philip E. Tetlock · 2005 · The twenty-year study showing expert prediction barely beats chance.
Barry Eichengreen · 2011 · The dollar's reserve status and what would end it.
Steve Coll · 2012 · The definitive account of the company as a quasi-sovereign actor.
Michael L. Ross · 2012 · The best statistical treatment of why petro-states fail and Norway did not.
William Nordhaus · 2013 · The Nobel case for pricing carbon and what a price should be.
Richard Baldwin · 2016 · The best analytic account of why the second unbundling differs from the first.
T1 Crashed
Adam Tooze · 2018 · Links the euro crisis to the dollar funding system and the transatlantic banking network.
T1 The New Map
Daniel Yergin · 2020 · Energy transition and geopolitics; the demand risk facing an integrated major.
Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, Kris James Mitchener · 2021 · The long history of state borrowing and when it is sustainable.
George Jacob Holyoake · 1858 · The Rochdale Pioneers by a contemporary; the founding cooperative account.
Louis D. Brandeis · 1914 · The contemporary case against the Morgan money trust.
Ferdinand Pecora · 1939 · The investigator's own account of the hearings that produced the SEC
Catherine Drinker Bowen · 1966 · The constitutional convention as a long and contested negotiation
John Waterbury · 1970 · How the palace balances elite factions; still the model for makhzen capitalism.
Robert H. Bork · 1978 · The consumer-welfare argument that let network scale go unchallenged.
János Kornai · 1979 · The soft budget constraint: why state firms never run out of money and never allocate well.
Ezra F. Vogel · 1979 · The high-water mark of Western awe, useful now as a study in extrapolation.
Edmund Morris · 1979 · Roosevelt before the presidency; the central figure of trust-busting
T2 The Kingdom
Robert Lacey · 1981 · The classic account of the first oil boom and the Al Saud bargain.
Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards · 1991 · The four-phase populist cycle; still the best predictive framework for the region.
T2 Truman
David McCullough · 1992 · Pulitzer-winning presidential biography; the postwar American decisions
T2 Game Over
David Sheff · 1993 · Nintendo's licensing regime and its control of the cartridge supply.
Jeffrey Sachs · 1993 · Shock therapy argued by one of its architects.
World Bank · 1993 · The official pre-crisis interpretation; read alongside Studwell to see what it missed.
Sebastian Edwards · 1995 · The World Bank chief economist on the debt crisis and the reforms after it.
Juan Gabriel Valdés · 1995 · How an economics faculty exchange programme became a national policy regime.
Timur Kuran · 1995 · Preference falsification: why opinion cascades and regimes collapse suddenly
Leszek Balcerowicz · 1995 · Insider: the architect of shock therapy setting out his own reasoning.
Bernard Connolly · 1995 · The franc fort, the ERM crisis and the politics of monetary union.
Andres Oppenheimer · 1996 · Salinas, the 1994 peso crisis and the tequila effect.
Adam Fforde, Stefan de Vylder · 1996 · The canonical doi moi study; reform as bottom-up fence-breaking, not decree.
Samuel P. Huntington · 1996 · Cultural blocs as the organising frame of post-Cold War conflict
Katherine Verdery · 1996 · Written from Romanian fieldwork; how the planned economy behaved in practice.
Edmund Terence Gomez, Jomo K. S. · 1997 · The canonical mapping of party-linked ownership across corporate Malaysia.
Enrique Krauze · 1997 · The presidential system that shaped who gets concessions.
Assar Lindbeck · 1997 · The insider economist's account of what the welfare state did to incentives.
Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, Eleanor Townsley · 1998 · Who ended up owning Central European assets when there were no owners.
Lee Kuan Yew · 1998 · The first volume of the memoirs, covering independence and the early state.
Ben S. Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, Frederic S. Mishkin, Adam S. Posen · 1999 · The framework New Zealand invented in 1989, assessed against later adopters.
T2 No Logo
Naomi Klein · 1999 · The anti-sweatshop campaign that reshaped Nike's supply chain.
Ishrat Husain · 1999 · By a later central bank governor; the structural diagnosis that still holds.
Gurcharan Das · 2000 · A Procter & Gamble insider on the 1991 liberalisation and what preceded it.
A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, Elizabeth M. Bailey · 2000 · The acid-rain programme: the one emissions market with a clean verdict.
Chrystia Freeland · 2000 · Loans-for-shares and the privatisation that created the oligarchs.
Ray MacSharry, Padraic White · 2000 · Insider: the finance minister and IDA head on how the FDI model was built.
Karl Maier · 2000 · The standard account of why the Nigerian state underdelivers.
Gerard Roland · 2000 · The theory of sequencing: why gradualism beat shock therapy in some places.
Paul Blustein · 2001 · The IMF inside the 1997 crisis, reported from the negotiating rooms.
Michael Pettis · 2001 · Balance-sheet structure, not policy error, as the cause of crises; the best analytic frame here.
Michael Mussa · 2002 · Insider: the IMF's former chief economist on why the convertibility plan failed.
David C. Kang · 2002 · Why the same corruption produced growth in Korea and stagnation here.
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2002 · The insider critique of IMF conditionality and capital account liberalization.
Joe Studwell · 2002 · The recurring foreign delusion about the size of the China opportunity.
Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen · 2002 · The Finnish model: how a welfare state produced a technology cluster.
David E. Hoffman · 2002 · Six men and the mechanics of how post-Soviet wealth was assembled.
Alice H. Amsden, Wan-wen Chu · 2003 · How Taiwan moved from imitation to scale in electronics and chips.
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2003 · Lincoln's cabinet of opponents; a study in managing rivals
Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner · 2004 · How the patent system drifted from incentive to tax.
Julia Preston, Samuel Dillon · 2004 · The end of one-party rule and what it changed for business.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns · 2004 · The fiscal arithmetic of unfunded old-age promises.
Martin Meredith · 2004 · The land seizures and the destruction of commercial agriculture, in continental context.
Paul Blustein · 2005 · The 2001 default, the IMF's role and the convertibility trap.
Pietra Rivoli · 2005 · One garment traced through every outsourced link in its chain.
János Kornai · 2006 · Memoir by the economist who advised the reforms from inside the system.
T2 Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano · 2006 · Organised crime as an actual industrial and logistics business.
Paul M. Handley · 2006 · The monarchy and the Crown Property Bureau as an economic institution.
Alexander Stille · 2006 · Berlusconi, media ownership and the capture of regulation.
Joe Studwell · 2007 · Places Li inside the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian tycoon system.
Ha-Joon Chang · 2007 · The case that rich countries prescribe policies they never followed.
Michael Reid · 2007 · The Economist's survey of why Latin America keeps underperforming.
Edward Luce · 2007 · The political economy behind the growth story, by an FT Delhi bureau chief.
Dan Breznitz · 2007 · Compares Israel, Taiwan and Ireland; the serious analysis behind Start-Up Nation.
Paul Collier · 2007 · The four traps framework; the most cited analytic account of why growth fails to start.
Steve LeVine · 2007 · How Tengiz and Kashagan were negotiated; the best account of dealmaking in the region.
János Kornai · 2008 · Kornai's own summary of what the transition did and cost.
Martin Meredith · 2008 · The political mechanics of expropriation and monetary financing, told straight.
Josh Lerner · 2009 · Why state attempts to manufacture a venture asset class mostly fail.
Fintan O'Toole · 2009 · Written in the wreckage; angry but specific about tax breaks, planning and regulatory capture.
Deborah Brautigam · 2009 · What Chinese finance and contractors actually do in Africa; Ethiopia recurring.
David Marsh · 2009 · How the single currency was negotiated, by a reporter who watched it.
T2 Fault Lines
Raghuram G. Rajan · 2010 · Inequality, global imbalances and credit as substitutes for income.
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · 2010 · The tobacco playbook for manufacturing scientific uncertainty.
E. R. Yescombe · 2010 · How PPP concessions are structured, priced and argued over.
Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, Christian Chavagneux · 2010 · The academic account of what havens do and how they compete.
Tim Wu · 2010 · How communications industries consolidate; frames cable's regulatory position.
Adam Hanieh · 2011 · How Gulf merchant families became regional capital, and where they invest.
Javier Corrales, Michael Penfold · 2011 · How Chávez used PDVSA revenue to rebuild the state around himself.
Anatol Lieven · 2011 · Kinship networks, patronage and why the state is weaker and more durable than it looks.
Carl E. Walter, Fraser J. T. Howie · 2011 · How the state banks, bond market and IPO machine are actually wired.
Byung-Kook Kim, Ezra F. Vogel · 2011 · The authoritative volume on how the developmental state was built.
Nicholas Shaxson · 2011 · The tax-haven system and Switzerland's founding role in it.
Sheila Bair · 2012 · FDIC chair's own account of seizing WaMu and selling it to JPMorgan.
Bill Emmott · 2012 · The two Italies framing: competitive exporters against captured incumbents.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala · 2012 · Insider account by the finance minister who ran the debt deal and reforms.
George Megalogenis · 2012 · How deregulation from 1983 produced three decades without recession.
David Nasaw · 2012 · Joseph Kennedy: film, liquor, market operations and the first SEC chairmanship
Alan S. Blinder · 2013 · The clearest economist's account of the crisis and the policy response.
Susan P. Crawford · 2013 · Built around the Comcast-NBCUniversal deal and broadband monopoly.
Joe Studwell · 2013 · The state-directed export discipline that produced the Korean chaebol.
Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, Ali Wyne · 2013 · Lee's own strategic judgements, edited into a short reference.
Michael Axworthy · 2013 · Political history that explains who controls which parts of the economy.
Neil Irwin · 2013 · Bernanke, Trichet and King through the crisis; central banks as FX actors.
Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig · 2013 · The case for far higher bank equity capital.
Benn Steil · 2013 · Keynes, White and the design of the postwar currency order.
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse · 2013 · The long American history of profit-sharing and broad-based ownership.
Michael Pettis · 2013 · Savings imbalances, capital flows and who is forced to absorb them.
Juan Zarate · 2013 · Insider account of the financial-warfare machinery that isolates Iranian banks.
Michael Reid · 2014 · The clearest account of Brazil's political economy and its ceilings.
Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen H. Haber · 2014 · Banking crises as outcomes of political bargains, not accidents.
Atif Mian, Amir Sufi · 2014 · Household leverage, not banks, as the transmission mechanism of the 2008 bust.
Nicholas R. Lardy · 2014 · The case that private firms drove the growth miracle.
Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt · 2014 · Standard scholarly treatment of fee structures and returns in Blackstone's industry.
Hans-Werner Sinn · 2014 · The German critique: Target2 balances, bailouts and current-account imbalances.
Ayesha Jalal · 2014 · Why the security state crowded out the productive economy from the start.
T2 World Order
Henry Kissinger · 2014 · Competing regional conceptions of legitimate order and the balance of power
Henry M. Paulson · 2015 · Former Treasury secretary on negotiating with China's state and firms
T2 Red Notice
Bill Browder · 2015 · Insider account by the largest foreign portfolio investor of the era, and its end.
Gabriel Zucman · 2015 · The measurement of offshore wealth, much of it booked in Switzerland.
Tom Burgis · 2015 · How resource rents are extracted across Africa, with Nigeria at the centre.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2016 · The structural case against the euro's design, from the Greek side of it.
Alex Cuadros · 2016 · Eike Batista and the plutocracy: how Brazilian fortunes are made and unmade.
Arthur R. Kroeber · 2016 · The best single-volume orientation for a newcomer to the market.
T2 Narconomics
Tom Wainwright · 2016 · The cartels analysed as firms: supply chains, franchising, HR.
T2 The Euro
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2016 · The case that the currency union's design, not fiscal sin, caused the crisis.
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau · 2016 · Why German and French economic doctrines produce different euro policies.
Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier · 2016 · Insider: the reporters who received and worked the Mossack Fonseca leak.
Peter Conti-Brown · 2016 · What Fed independence legally is, versus what people assume.
Ruchir Sharma · 2016 · Ten practical rules a country allocator can actually check; written by one who did the job.
David Coltart · 2016 · Insider account by a cabinet minister through dollarisation and the unity government.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2017 · Insider account of the 2015 Eurogroup negotiation by the finance minister; partisan but primary.
Elisabeth Rosenthal · 2017 · How healthcare spending is actually generated, payer by payer.
Neil Monnery · 2017 · Cowperthwaite and the fiscal rules that produced the low-tax model.
Costas Meghir, Christopher A. Pissarides, Dimitri Vayanos, Nikolaos Vettas · 2017 · The best book on the actual Greek economy: product markets, courts, firms.
Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw · 2017 · Traces Kazakh elite money through offshore vehicles, London lawyers and Western banks.
T2 Fear City
Kim Phillips-Fein · 2017 · New York's 1975 near-default and who bondholders can actually discipline.
Jake Bernstein · 2017 · How the offshore shell-company industry is actually built and sold.
Dani Rodrik · 2017 · The trilemma between democracy, sovereignty and deep integration.
Richard Nephew · 2017 · Insider account by the US official who designed the Iran sanctions programme.
Richard Rothstein · 2017 · How federal housing policy engineered segregation.
Zeynep Tufekci · 2017 · Why the platform mattered politically, and what that cost it.
Tom Wright, Bradley Hope · 2018 · The 1MDB looting, and the banks, auditors and funds that waved it through.
Ashoka Mody · 2018 · Mody ran the IMF's Ireland programme; Portugal's adjustment is covered inside the euro story.
Marcin Piatkowski · 2018 · The best single account of why Poland converged and others did not.
Adam Hanieh · 2018 · The GCC as an integrated capital bloc; conglomerates, real estate, finance.
T2 Moneyland
Oliver Bullough · 2018 · How the pieces assemble: Nevis trusts, BVI companies, London property, Caribbean passports.
T2 Saudi, Inc.
Ellen R. Wald · 2018 · Aramco as a corporate history, from concession to national champion.
T2 Shadow State
Ivor Chipkin, Mark Swilling, Haroon Bhorat · 2018 · The academic anatomy of state capture, written from the procurement documents.
James Crabtree · 2018 · Crony capitalism, promoter leverage and the bad-loan crisis.
Tim Wu · 2018 · The counter-case, and the Brandeisian revival.
Anand Giridharadas · 2018 · The strongest popular case that market-led do-gooding entrenches the status quo.
T2 Banking Bad
Adele Ferguson · 2019 · The reporting that forced the Royal Commission into financial misconduct.
Katherine Eban · 2019 · Generic manufacturing and data fraud in offshore plants.
T2 Goliath
Matt Stoller · 2019 · A century of American anti-monopoly politics.
Nicholas R. Lardy · 2019 · The same author documenting the reversal towards state control.
Christopher Cramer, John Sender, Arkebe Oqubay · 2020 · Attacks the standard development orthodoxies using Ethiopian evidence throughout.
Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck · 2020 · MBS, the Ritz-Carlton detentions and the PIF's spending spree.
T2 Kleptopia
Tom Burgis · 2020 · ENRC, the London listing and how Kazakh mining money moved west.
T2 MBS
Ben Hubbard · 2020 · The consolidation of power that now determines Saudi capital allocation.
Gerald Posner · 2020 · Industry history covering J&J's opioid marketing and its regulatory politics.
Catherine Belton · 2020 · The KGB network's recapture of the commanding heights.
Ulrike Schaede · 2020 · Why Japanese firms retreated into high-margin upstream components.
Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis · 2020 · Imbalances reframed as domestic distribution, not national competition.
T2 Red Roulette
Desmond Shum · 2021 · Insider account of doing deals through Party patronage, and losing everything.
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein · 2021 · The evidence on who actually gained and lost from the transition.
T2 Chip War
Chris Miller · 2022 · Intel's rise and manufacturing decline inside the global chip contest.
Sebastian Edwards · 2023 · Best single volume: the reforms, the 1982 crash, the pension system and the reaction against it.
Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar · 2023 · DeepMind co-founder on containment; the rival lab's view.
Andre de Ruyter · 2023 · Insider: the Eskom CEO on why the power supply cannot be fixed.
Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman · 2023 · How trade and payment chokepoints became instruments of state coercion.
T2 Kaput
Wolfgang Munchau · 2024 · The case that the German industrial model has run out of road.
Sulmaan Wasif Khan · 2024 · Current account of the cross-strait risk that prices every Taiwanese asset.
Patrick McGee · 2025 · What Apple actually built by renting other people's factories for two decades.
T2 Chokepoints
Edward Fishman · 2025 · Sanctions and export controls as the force actually moving supply chains.
Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska · 2025 · Insider manifesto by Palantir's CEO on tech and national power.
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Marquis W. Childs · 1936 · The book that made the Swedish model an international reference point.
James Burnham · 1943 · Elite theory: who actually rules, and why stated aims mislead
Mahathir bin Mohamad · 1970 · Insider primary source: the argument that became the New Economic Policy and Bumiputera quotas.
Just Faaland, J. R. Parkinson · 1976 · The founding pessimist study; useful baseline for what was later beaten.
E. Richard Brown · 1979 · How the philanthropy reshaped American medicine; the money after the oil.
Charles R. Morris · 1980 · Contemporary anatomy of the same fiscal crisis, written from the numbers.
Andrew Chetley · 1986 · The infant formula marketing controversy and the Nestlé boycott.
Sterling Seagrave · 1988 · Journalistic account of how the crony monopolies and offshore holdings were built.
Alan Richards, John Waterbury · 1990 · Egypt is the anchor case throughout; the standard textbook on regional state-business relations.
Jill Crystal · 1990 · How oil revenue let rulers buy out the merchant families; the origin of the modern business elite.
Donald Rothchild · 1991 · The Rawlings structural adjustment, the reference case for African reform.
David P. Demarest · 1992 · Documentary history of the strike, assembled from contemporary sources.
Alfred W. McCoy · 1993 · The provincial dynasties behind the listed conglomerates; still the reference on ownership.
Jahangir Amuzegar · 1993 · The earlier survey: nationalisation, war financing and the bonyad economy.
James G. Burton · 1993 · Insider account of the Bradley programme and operational testing.
Roger Douglas · 1993 · Insider case for the reforms by the finance minister who forced them through.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Sungsidh Piriyarangsan · 1994 · Field research on how money actually moves through Thai officialdom.
Barry P. Bosworth, Rudiger Dornbusch, Raúl Labán · 1994 · Brookings assessment of the reform package by economists who took it seriously.
Joseph Collins, John Lear · 1995 · The critical case; distributional costs behind the headline growth numbers.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 1995 · The pre-crisis baseline: how the boom economy was actually structured.
Ivan T. Berend · 1996 · Economic history that explains the industrial base the Czechs privatised.
Javier Martínez, Alvaro Díaz · 1996 · How the productive structure and business class were remade after 1973.
Brian Easton · 1996 · The post-war economy through the liberalisation, by its best chronicler.
Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, Pat Walsh · 1996 · The state-sector redesign other governments copied; contracts, outputs, accountability.
Eun Mee Kim · 1997 · The state-chaebol bargain and how it shifted over forty years.
James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg · 1997 · 1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state
Taras Kuzio · 1997 · The years the oligarchic structure was formed, documented as it happened.
Paul D. Hutchcroft · 1998 · Why oligarch families captured the banks rather than the state capturing business.
Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan · 1998 · The stadium-subsidy machine that props up franchise valuations.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 1998 · The definitive account of the bubble and the baht devaluation that started the Asian crisis.
Michael Backman · 1999 · Written straight after the 1997 crisis on opacity, related-party dealing and family control.
T3 Blue Gold
Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke · 1999 · The anti-privatisation argument; useful as the opposing case.
Paul Klebnikov · 2000 · Berezovsky and the looting of the Yeltsin state; the author was later murdered.
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2000 · Follow-up on the IMF programme, bank restructuring and who paid for it.
Stephen Kinzer · 2001 · Written around the 2001 banking crisis, the last full reset of the system.
Paul Ginsborg · 2001 · Family capitalism, clientelism and the state from 1980.
Martha Brill Olcott · 2001 · The standard account of Nazarbayev-era state building and asset allocation.
Craig Addison · 2001 · Early statement of the argument that chip supply deters invasion.
R. E. Elson · 2001 · The New Order's patronage economy, on which much of the corporate map rests.
Jomo K. S. · 2001 · The 1997-98 crisis and the heterodox capital-control response, analysed properly.
Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite · 2002 · How TRIPS globalised the IP rent model.
Timothy Mitchell · 2002 · Heavy going, but the sharpest account of how land, capital and expertise were arranged.
Arang Keshavarzian · 2003 · How informal credit, trust networks and trade finance work when the banking system does not.
Richard A. Werner · 2003 · A contested but influential reading of the Bank of Japan's credit guidance.
Denny Roy · 2003 · Background on the party-state and land reform behind the industrial model.
Shalendra D. Sharma · 2003 · Country-by-country anatomy of the crisis, reform and recovery.
Tobias Jones · 2003 · Courts, bureaucracy and why contracts are slow to enforce.
Arsenio M. Balisacan, Hal Hill · 2003 · The standard economics volume: trade, banking, land and industrial policy.
Timothy B. Smith · 2004 · Welfare, insider protection and why French reform keeps stalling.
Steven Heydemann · 2004 · Why economic liberalisation reorganised privilege rather than removing it.
Duncan McCargo · 2004 · Edited essays on state, business and the limits of the reform coalition.
T3 Thaksin
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2004 · Telecoms billionaire turned prime minister; the clearest study of business-politics fusion in Thailand.
Walden Bello, Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman, Mary Lou Malig · 2004 · Critical account of liberalisation, debt service and deindustrialisation after Marcos.
Richard Lloyd Parry · 2005 · Reporting from the 1997-98 collapse and the fall of Suharto.
Alice Poon · 2005 · The clearest short account of how the property oligopoly extracts rent.
Patricio N. Abinales, Donna J. Amoroso · 2005 · The standard history of a weak state captured by strong families.
David Ost · 2005 · How the union that won the transition lost the workplace that followed.
Carol Off · 2006 · Cocoa supply chain and child labour behind confectionery majors.
J. C. Sharman · 2006 · How small jurisdictions fought off the OECD's harmful tax competition drive.
Farouk Al-Kasim · 2006 · Insider account by the geologist who designed Norway's licensing system.
Craig Murray · 2006 · Insider account by the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan on cotton and coercion.
Anders Åslund, Michael McFaul · 2006 · Why the 2004 turning point failed to dislodge the incumbent asset holders.
Henri Ghesquiere · 2006 · An IMF economist on which policies were actually causal, and which transferable.
Julio F. Carrión · 2006 · Stabilisation, privatisation and the authoritarian bargain that delivered them.
Pietro Masina · 2006 · Industrial policy and FDI dependence assessed against the East Asian model.
Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2007 · Norway is the counterexample the whole volume is arranged around.
Anders Aslund, Anders Åslund · 2007 · Comparative transition account; Czech vouchers judged against other sequencing choices.
Ayesha Siddiqa · 2007 · The army's foundations, land and industrial holdings mapped for the first time.
Leo Goodstadt · 2007 · How Hong Kong's banks and bank crises shaped the miracle economy.
Torben M. Andersen, Bengt Holmstrom, Seppo Honkapohja, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Soderstrom, Juhana Vartiainen · 2007 · Economists' report on how small open economies combine flexibility with heavy taxation.
Alfonso W. Quiroz · 2008 · Two centuries of graft quantified; the cost of doing business, measured.
Shuja Nawaz · 2008 · The army's internal history; essential for reading political risk here.
Christopher M. Davidson · 2008 · The emirate's development model and its structural dependencies.
Bruce K. Rutherford · 2008 · The liberalising business elite and the courts, written just before it broke.
Melody Petersen · 2008 · Drug marketing practices, including J&J's Risperdal and off-label promotion.
James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer · 2008 · Evidence that patents work poorly as property; the IP-as-asset skeptic case.
Mitchell A. Orenstein · 2008 · How Chile's AFP model was exported worldwide, and who profited.
Mary Hilson · 2008 · Historian's account of what the model actually is and where it diverges.
Christopher M. Davidson · 2009 · The hydrocarbon emirate and the origins of its sovereign funds.
T3 Dead Aid
Dambisa Moyo · 2009 · Polemical, but the case for bond-market financing over aid is argued in investor terms.
Ivan T. Berend · 2009 · Covers EU accession as the main driver of Romanian institutional change.
Robert Lacey · 2009 · The sequel covering the religious backlash and reform attempts.
Michela Wrong · 2009 · Whistleblower's account of the Anglo Leasing procurement scandals; essential country risk reading.
Roger Boyes · 2009 · Contemporaneous reporting on the collapse and the Icesave dispute.
Jane Hardy · 2009 · Foreign investment, labour and the costs of the transition, told critically.
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses · 2009 · The corporatist Estado Novo economy, run by an economics professor.
Ziya Onis, Fikret Senses · 2009 · Academic account of the post-2001 reform programme and its unwinding.
T3 Unquenchable
Robert Glennon · 2009 · Glennon's case for pricing and trading water rights.
Matt Cooper · 2009 · The developer-banker-politician network that inflated the property bubble.
Michael Peel · 2010 · The Niger Delta oil economy reported at ground level.
Peadar Kirby · 2010 · Structural reading of why the growth model was fragile from the start.
Syed Ali · 2010 · Migrant labour, property speculation and the social structure underneath the boom.
Tarek Osman · 2010 · Readable political economy of the Nasser-to-Mubarak arc and the crony privatisations.
Steven Radelet · 2010 · Ghana as lead exhibit in the case for African growth turnarounds.
Sebastian Edwards · 2010 · Why growth kept disappointing despite reform; good on institutions and productivity.
Pauline Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal · 2010 · Why ownership structure, not oil itself, determined post-Soviet outcomes.
William D. Hartung · 2010 · Lockheed Martin as a case study in the contractor-state relationship.
Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, Robert H. Topel · 2010 · NBER volume on the post-crisis reforms that restored Swedish growth.
Riordan Roett · 2010 · Institutional history of the stabilisation that made the commodity boom possible.
Bill Hayton · 2010 · The standard account of Party control, state firms and the doi moi business environment.
Ian Scoones · 2010 · Ten years of field data on what actually happened to seized farmland.
Mahathir bin Mohamad · 2011 · Memoir by the architect of the industrial policy and the capital controls.
Alistair Darling · 2011 · Chancellor's memoir covering the guarantee and nationalisation; Open Library unreachable.
David Erdal · 2011 · An owner who converted his own firm, on employee ownership in practice.
James Rickards · 2011 · Popular account of competitive devaluation as policy.
Ahmed Kanna · 2011 · The emirate governed explicitly as a firm, and what that means for investors.
Tadeusz Kowalik · 2011 · The critique of the transition's distributional cost.
Daniel Branch · 2011 · Ethnic coalition politics as the mechanism that allocates economic rents.
Maleeha Lodhi · 2011 · Practitioner essays on energy, taxation, banking and the reform agenda.
Allen J. Fromherz · 2011 · How the ruling family consolidated gas revenue and the merchant elite.
Chuck Sudetic · 2011 · Authorised account of the Open Society foundations, his second career.
Steven A. Cook · 2011 · Nasser to Tahrir; the political frame around state capitalism and infitah.
Jothie Rajah · 2012 · How law is used instrumentally; important for assessing legal risk.
Larry Rohter · 2012 · The commodity-boom decade and the institutions underneath it.
David W. P. Elliott · 2012 · How the Party argued itself into opening the economy and joining WTO.
Tom Watson, Martin Hickman · 2012 · Phone hacking, by the MP who pursued it in Parliament.
Alexander Cooley · 2012 · How Central Asian states play outside powers off against each other.
David McKnight · 2012 · Argues the politics drove the business, not the reverse.
Carlo Bastasin · 2012 · Blow-by-blow of the 2010-12 rescues and the national politics behind them.
Christopher Balding · 2012 · How these funds actually invest and what governs them; NBIM as benchmark.
Dieter Helm · 2012 · Why European carbon policy delivered so little; a sceptic's audit.
Fred Pearce · 2012 · The post-2008 institutional rush into farmland across the developing world.
Christopher Davidson · 2013 · The political-risk case against the Gulf monarchies' durability.
T3 Comandante
Rory Carroll · 2013 · Reported from inside the Chávez government as expropriation accelerated.
Sebastian Royo · 2013 · The cajas, the construction boom and the political economy of the bailout.
Morten Jerven · 2013 · Ghana's 2010 GDP rebasing is the central case; read before trusting any African macro series.
Mehran Kamrava · 2013 · The best account of how QIA money serves foreign policy objectives.
Philip Shishkin · 2013 · Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: revolution, asset seizure and the Bakiyev family businesses.
Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H. B. Monk · 2013 · The reference on SWF governance; Norges Bank Investment Management is the central case.
Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury · 2013 · Mining and hydrocarbon conflict in the Andes; the social licence problem.
Moises Naim · 2013 · Why incumbent power in states, firms and armies now erodes faster
Jonathan V. Last · 2013 · Fertility decline argued as an economic rather than a moral problem.
Andrew MacGregor Marshall · 2014 · Succession risk and the political instability that follows it.
Gudrun Johnsen · 2014 · By an investigator on the Special Investigation Commission; connected lending and cross-ownership.
Eirikur Bergmann · 2014 · Political economy of the boom, the Icesave dispute and the aftermath.
Jennifer Taub · 2014 · Regulatory history explaining how a thrift-charter lender grew unsupervised.
Yannis Palaiologos · 2014 · Reporting on how Greek institutions failed, sector by sector.
Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov · 2014 · Includes the Czech voucher scheme written up by people who designed and criticised it.
Jahangir Amuzegar · 2014 · Former finance minister on subsidies, privatisation and the rial.
George Megalogenis · 2015 · Migration and openness as the long-run growth variable.
Steffen Hertog, Giacomo Luciani, Marc Valeri · 2015 · How business associations and state elites actually bargain across the region.
Martin Sandbu · 2015 · Argues the currency was not the problem, the crisis management was; the best contrarian case.
Suzanne Maloney · 2015 · The standard survey: bonyads, IRGC commercial holdings, subsidies and sanctions.
Arkebe Oqubay · 2015 · Insider account of the cement, floriculture and leather sectors by the official who ran the policy.
Stathis N. Kalyvas · 2015 · Compact political economy of why the state developed the way it did.
Linsey McGoey · 2015 · Academic critique of Gates Foundation philanthrocapitalism.
Linda Lim · 2015 · Retrospective essays on the limits of the model and what comes next.
Marion Nestle · 2015 · The regulatory and tax threat to carbonated volumes; Open Library unreachable.
David S. Abraham · 2015 · How minor metals are mined, traded and hoarded.
James Angelos · 2015 · Reportage on tax evasion, disability fraud and the informal economy behind the headline numbers.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi · 2015 · Anticorruption theory built partly on Romania's DNA prosecutions.
Alex de Waal · 2015 · The 'political marketplace' framework: how loyalty is priced and paid for in the region.
Anders Åslund · 2015 · The oligarch model, gas trading rents and the post-Maidan reform agenda.
Tobias Hagmann, Filip Reyntjens · 2016 · How donor money underwrote the EPRDF developmental state.
Raúl Gallegos · 2016 · The mechanics of subsidised fuel, multiple exchange rates and arbitrage as a national industry.
Nathan Bomey · 2016 · The largest Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, reported from inside the case.
T3 Game Over
George Papaconstantinou · 2016 · Insider: the finance minister who signed the first bailout.
Vijay Joshi · 2016 · The reform agenda India has still not executed.
Bálint Magyar · 2016 · A framework for how ownership is reassigned politically; the most useful guide to Hungarian counterparty risk.
Simon Waldman, Emre Caliskan · 2016 · How institutions, media and business were reorganised under AKP rule.
Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz · 2016 · What licensing instead of selling does to the buyer.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen · 2016 · Sovereign funds, diversification plans and the limits of the rentier bargain.
Joshua Cooper Ramo · 2016 · Power in a networked age; connection as the source of advantage
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker · 2016 · Concentration of wealth, land and market power among a few families.
Domingo Cavallo, Sonia Cavallo Runde · 2017 · Insider: the economy minister who built convertibility defending the record.
Michael Vatikiotis · 2017 · Regional political economy from a mediator who has worked across it.
Adriaan Basson, Pieter du Toit · 2017 · The Zuma years assembled into a single narrative of capture.
Crispian Olver · 2017 · Municipal tender corruption reconstructed from the inside.
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Herbst, Dickie Davis · 2017 · Operator-facing handbook on governance and growth constraints across the continent.
Edmund Terence Gomez, Thirshalar Padmanabhan, Norfaryanti Kamaruddin, Sunil Bhalla, Fikri Fisal · 2017 · Who actually controls the GLCs that dominate the local market.
Paul Lendvai · 2017 · How the post-2010 government allocates contracts, media and banking licences.
Soner Cagaptay · 2017 · How Erdogan's consolidation reshaped who wins contracts.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2017 · The state-capture network and how state enterprises were monetised.
Chris McGreal · 2018 · Regulatory and distribution failures around the prescription epidemic.
Ryan Holiday · 2018 · The secretly funded litigation that destroyed Gawker.
Susan P. Crawford · 2018 · The broadband infrastructure argument against incumbent cable operators.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala · 2018 · The same author on what happened when the reforms were resisted.
Oliver Nachtwey · 2018 · Labour-market dualism and downward mobility behind the export success.
Ishrat Husain · 2018 · Insider on why Pakistani institutional reform keeps failing at implementation.
Clare Rewcastle Brown · 2018 · First-hand account by the journalist who broke the 1MDB story.
Andrew Selee · 2018 · How deeply the two economies are now integrated.
Tobias Buck · 2019 · The crisis, the bank rescue and the shape of the recovery.
T3 Backstage
Montek Singh Ahluwalia · 2019 · Insider memoir by the architect of much of the reform programme.
Ishac Diwan, Adeel Malik, Izak Atiyas · 2019 · Firm-level evidence on politically connected business; Egypt is the core case.
Joanna Lillis · 2019 · Reporting on the succession, Zhanaozen and how the state and business interlock.
Jim Krane · 2019 · Domestic energy subsidies as the Gulf's central fiscal problem.
Hannah Lucinda Smith · 2019 · Reporting on the construction-and-credit growth model and who benefited.
Soner Cagaptay · 2019 · Foreign policy ambition and its cost to the currency and the budget.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2019 · Procurement capture inside the governing party.
Arkebe Oqubay, Kenichi Ohno · 2019 · Technological learning and catch-up; the theory behind Ethiopia's industrial parks.
Ahmet T. Kuru · 2019 · A structural argument about why Muslim-majority economies underperform.
Anders Aslund · 2019 · How the rent-extraction system is organised under Putin.
Bálint Magyar · 2019 · Comparative framework for post-communist regimes built on the Hungarian case.
Richard Pomfret · 2019 · The standard economic survey: resource rents, transit corridors, reform records.
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne · 2019 · Insider account by Microsoft's president on tech policy and regulation.
Douglas Rogers · 2019 · The 2017 coup reported from inside, including its business backers.
Paul D'Anieri · 2019 · Gas transit, trade dependence and the economics underneath the conflict.
T3 City on Fire
Antony Dapiran · 2020 · The 2019 protests and the political-risk repricing that followed.
Aaron Jakes · 2020 · Colonial economism and the debt-and-cotton origins of the modern Egyptian economy.
T3 Monopolized
David Dayen · 2020 · Concentration traced sector by sector through its effects on customers.
William Lazonick, Jang-Sup Shin · 2020 · The academic case that repurchases hollow out corporate investment.
Ross Douthat · 2020 · Argument that rich societies have stagnated into repetition and sterility
Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo · 2020 · Why written rules go unenforced, and what that means for contracts.
Guillaume Pitron · 2020 · Rare earths, Chinese supply control and the cost of the green transition.
David Rundell · 2020 · A former diplomat on the durability of the system Vision 2030 must change.
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy · 2021 · Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura and Cargill; the definitive book on the trading houses.
Ben S. Bernanke · 2022 · Insider account of the Fed from Burns through the QE era.
Jennifer D. Sciubba · 2022 · A political demographer on what the numbers do and do not determine.
Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz · 2022 · The distributors and the litigation that ran alongside Purdue.
Oliver Bullough · 2022 · The overseas territories as a deliberate British service industry.
Lori Garver · 2022 · NASA insider on the policy fight that funded commercial crew.
T3 Homecoming
Rana Foroohar · 2022 · The case for localisation after the pandemic supply shocks.
Jorge Pontes, Marcio Anselmo · 2022 · Insider: two federal police delegates on the Lava Jato investigation.
Balaji Srinivasan · 2022 · Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics
William Neuman · 2022 · Reporting on the endgame: PDVSA's decay, default, sanctions and dollarisation.
T3 Volt Rush
Henry Sanderson · 2022 · Lithium, cobalt and nickel supply chains behind the EV build-out.
T3 Plunder
Brendan Ballou · 2023 · The prosecutorial case against the industry KKR created; read as counterweight.
Tim Schwab · 2023 · Investigative case against the foundation's power.
T3 Barons
Austin Frerick · 2024 · Concentration of ownership across American agriculture.
T3 Unit X
Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff · 2024 · Insiders on Pentagon-Valley contracting where Palantir won; Open Library unreachable.
Henry S. Randall, J. B. Lippincott, Company · 1858
M.K. Gandhi · 1927
James Burnham · 1941
David D. Friedman · 1973
James Thomas Flexner · 1974
Archibald Cox · 1976
William Manchester · 1983
John F. Witte · 1985
Thomas Sowell · 1987
William Greider · 1987 · The Volcker Fed from the inside; still the fullest political account.
Michael G. Schatzberg · 1987 · Dated but the clearest treatment of the settler-to-Kenyan capital handover.
Paul Kennedy · 1987 · Military spending measured against the economy that has to carry it.
Li Lu · 1990 · Memoir of the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen; his only English-language book.
Michael E. Porter · 1991 · Study of Canadian competitiveness with the Monitor Company
Ricardo Manapat · 1991 · Hard-to-find catalogue of Marcos-era crony deals; the source everyone else cites.
Robert B. Reich · 1991
Sebastian Mallaby · 1992 · Open Library unreachable during build; every openlibrary.org query failed with connection errors
Jill Crystal · 1992 · Includes the Souk al-Manakh episode and the Kuwait Investment Office.
Charles C. Euchner · 1993 · Why teams move and cities pay to keep them.
Peter Thiel, David O. Sacks · with David O. Sacks · 1995 · Subtitled 'Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus'
Jane Kelsey · 1995 · Hostile to the reforms but the fullest record of what was actually done and in what order.
Dani Rodrik · 1997 · The 1997 warning that the political backlash was coming.
John Vidal · 1997 · The London libel trial that became a reputational case study.
Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara · with Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara · 2000
Joseph J. Ellis · 2000
George Soros · 2000 · Open Library lists the short title "Open society".
Robert B. Reich · 2002
Peter F. Drucker · 2003 · Selections on community and society; not returned by the Open Library author query
George C. Halvorson, George J. Isham · 2003
Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg · 2003
Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson, George P. Shultz · 2003
Liza Featherstone · 2004 · The Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination litigation.
Sebastian Mallaby · 2004 · Open Library unreachable during build; title confirmed on his CFR expert page
James Grant · 2005 · Open Library unreachable during build; title listed on grantspub.com books page
John C. Bogle · 2005
Marco Palacios · 2006 · Property rights, land and violence as a continuous economic story.
Bjørn Lomborg · 2006
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · 2006 · Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Stéphanie Balme, Mark Sidel · 2006 · Legal and institutional reform; the contract and property environment for investors.
Melani Claire Cammett · 2007 · Morocco against Tunisia: why business lobbies formed differently and what it did to reform.
Bryan Caplan · 2007 · Systematic voter bias about economics, and why democracies choose badly
J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul · 2008 · World Bank study of sovereign catastrophe risk transfer.
Angela Vergara · 2008 · The copper enclave before nationalisation: labour, Anaconda and Kennecott.
Arnaud Brohé, Nicholas Eyre, Nicholas Howarth · 2009 · International business guide to allowances, offsets and registries.
Anders Åslund · 2009 · The 1991-2008 transition; explains where the industrial assets came from.
Shane Ross · 2009 · Board-level reporting on the Irish banks and their regulators.
Hunter Lewis · 2009 · Polemic against Keynesian policy from an Austrian-leaning investor
Steven Garber · 2010 · RAND occasional paper; the early survey of the US market.
Henry M. Paulson · 2010 · Insider memoir: the Treasury Secretary's version of the same weeks.
Richard C. Sauer · 2010
George Soros · 2010 · Open Library lists the short title "The Soros Lectures".
David Lewis · 2011 · The one readable overview of how the state, NGOs and business interlock.
Jonas Meckling · 2011 · How business lobbies built emissions trading as the chosen instrument.
Ezra F. Vogel · 2011
Jason Manolopoulos · 2011 · Written by a hedge fund manager; strongest on the bond market's role in the build-up.
Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, Lawrence J. White · 2011
James Grant · 2011 · Open Library unreachable during build; title listed on grantspub.com books page
Peer Hull Kristensen, Kari Lilja · 2011 · Firm-level study of how Nordic companies reorganised for global production.
Robert J. Shiller, Randall S. Kroszner · with Randall S. Kroszner · 2011
Tai-chun Kuo, Ramon H. Myers · 2011 · The policy record of the transition from agriculture to electronics.
Alastair Smith, Bruce de Mesquita · 2011
Gordon S. Wood · 2011
Gurcharan Das · 2012
Xiaobo Liu, Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao · 2012
Ezekiel J. Emanuel · 2014
Ken Silverstein · 2014 · Fixers, traders and middlemen in the oil trade.
George Soros, Gregor Peter Schmitz · with Gregor Peter Schmitz · 2014
Roger Lowenstein · 2015 · How the Federal Reserve was argued into existence, 1907-1913.
Nima Sanandaji · 2015 · The sceptical case: prosperity preceded the welfare state, not the reverse.
Nima Sanandaji · 2016 · Longer version of the same argument, aimed at American admirers of the model.
T4 Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016
Richard Saunders, Tinashe Nyamunda · 2016 · The Marange diamond fields; how an extractive rent was captured militarily.
Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino, Irma Erlingsdottir · 2016 · Academic collection on blame, protest and institutional reconstruction after 2008.
Esra Ceviker Gurakar · 2016 · Data on how procurement law was amended to steer contracts.
Sebastian Mallaby · 2016 · Open Library unreachable during build; title confirmed on his CFR expert page
George Lakey · 2016 · Popular and partisan, but the clearest short account of the Nordic bargain.
Douglas Murray · 2017
George Soros · 2019 · Published in the UK as In Defence of Open Society.
Paul Domjan, Gavin Serkin, Brandon Thomas, John Toshack · 2020 · A working method for scoring country risk across frontier markets.
Joel Greenblatt · 2020
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen · 2020 · The 2017-21 blockade and its effect on trade routes, aviation and supply chains.
Meredith Angwin · 2020 · Deregulated wholesale markets and reliability risk.
Michael E. Porter, Katherine M. Gehl · with Katherine M. Gehl · 2020 · Applies industry analysis to US party politics
Carl-Gustav Lindén · 2021 · Open-access study of Finnish state capture by one firm — No Open Library work record for the title or for Carl-Gustav Linden
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Peter Zeihan · 2022 · The strongest form of the argument that the trading order is ending.
T4 The Big Fail
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · with Joe Nocera · 2023 · OL lists title as 'Big Fail'
David M. Rubenstein · 2024 · Open Library records the title as Highest Calling; on the American presidency.
T4 Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson · 2025 · Why building housing, energy and infrastructure became so hard in America
James Grant · 2025 · W. W. Norton, August 2025; confirmed by his 2026 WSJ author bio line
John Robb
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Lee Kuan Yew Unread, but I saw this
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Elinor Ostrom
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Lawrence J. Haas
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Bryan Stevenson
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Sunil Sheoran
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Mark Greenberg
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Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek
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Mustafa Suleyman
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John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
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Robert A. Caro
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Richard E. Neustadt, Ernest R. May
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Carroll Quigley
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