-Titulo Original : The Undertaking Life Studies From The Dismal Trade-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review A startling and eloquent meditation on death and bereavement…If you think this book isnt about you, or for you, think again. SpinA memoir that is stand-out superb. EsquireMr. Lynch emerges as a cross between Garrison Keillor and one of the Irish poets; one thinks of William Butler Yeats…Forceful, authentic, and full of a kind of ethical and aesthetic clarity. Richard Bernstein, New York Times[Lynch] is able to take us inside the palpable business of blood, tears, and the final verse of life in a manner that is almost shocking in the relief it delivers…[A] fine, sensible, and wise book. Boston GlobeLynch’s vivid prose has the electricity of writing that tells us what is going on in the secret places of the community and the secret places of the heart. USA Today A National Book Award Finalist: One of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time…brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor. Tom Vanderbilt, The NationEvery year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople. So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ear tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve pieces his is the voice of both witness and functionary. Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar mystery. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldnt have. Here are golfers tripping over grave markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are the lessons for life our mortality teaches us. About the Author Thomas Lynch’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New York Times, and elsewhere. His first collection of essays, The Undertaking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan...

-Titulo Original : The Light Ages The Surprising Story Of Medieval Science-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. Falk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight. Alex Orlando, DiscoverSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture.In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor, educated in England’s grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world’s most advanced observatory.The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues that these times weren’t so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today. 8 pages of illustrations Review Magnificent...[Falk lets] us inhabit, for a spell of seven finely crafted chapters, the vibrant mind of a 14th-century Benedictine monk, John Westwyk... [Written] as if John Westwyk and Seb Falk, separated in time but not in spirit, were joining hands while guiding us along; or as if The Light Ages were Mr. Falk’s own clever astrolabe, seeking to make that shimmering light in the distance look, as well it should, wonderfully close and luminously real. Christoph Irmscher, Wall Street JournalFalk’s bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn’t just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight. Alex Orlando, DiscoverFalk offers a sense of the international nature of medieval scholarship, debunking the image of isolated, repressive monastic communities and highlighting the influence of both Muslim and Jewish innovators. Smithsonian MagazineThe Lights Ages…illuminates not just the visionaries of the past but also the troubled state of anti-intellectualism in the modern world. Financial TimesA wonderful book, as at home bringing to life the obscure details of a Hertfordshire monk as it is explicating the infinite reaches of space and time. Required reading for anyone who thinks that the Middle Ages were a dark age. Tom Holland, author of DominionCompulsive, brilliantly clear, and superbly well-written, The Light Ages is more than just a very good book on medieval science: it’s a charismatic evocation of another world. Seb Falk uses the monk John of Westwyk to weld us into the medieval ways of imagining as well as thinking. And there are surprises galore for everyone, no matter how knowledgeable t...

-Titulo Original : The Long Haul A Truckers Tales Of Life On The Road-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: “There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.” Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job. Review Like a Mark Twain behind the wheel, [Murphy] takes us on the road coast to coast and city to city with a voice that’s honest and direct and sometimes even poetic. Bob Ryan, Boston GlobeRich [and] insightful.… A well-written story that rarely slows down. Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles TimesIt’s a hoot to ride along with Murphy. Irene Wanner, Seattle TimesThe Long Haul is funny and sad and wise, and it shows us the lives of people we depend on. Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as SoulcraftExquisite.… Murphy can cross class boundaries as smoothly as changing lanes on the highway.… Readers even passingly familiar with the burgeoning literary genre we might call hillbilly elegiacs… will find Murphy’s more nuanced perspective refreshing. Meghan Daum, New York Times Book ReviewThe Long Haul delivers because it is a survey of a culture fused to a working man’s memoir and Murphy, smartly, avoids sentiment and lazy comparisons. Jeffery Gleaves, Paris ReviewLike priests, movers shepherd us through life’s transitions; like cowboys, truckers drive the roads we’ll never know. Both see America in ways the rest of us don’t. In The Long Haul, Murphy… bring[s] us into his semi-mythic world. Joshua Rothman, The New YorkerAn adventure story and… a peek into an occupation whose practitioners we see rolling down the highway. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal SentinelThe Long Haul beguil[es] readers with wit, wisdom and observations born from decades in transit. Jason Blevins, Denver PostFinn Murphy… bring[s] readers along for a rollicking ride through a trucker’s world and [provides] an insider’s eye, pairing it with an involving series of encounters. Midwest Book Review About the Author Finn Murphy grew up in Connecticut and now lives in Colorado. He started working as a long-haul trucker in 1980. The Long Haul is his first book...

-Titulo Original : Fairyland A Memoir Of My Father-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearIn this vibrant memoir, Alysia Abbott recounts growing up in 1970s San Francisco with Steve Abbott, a gay, single father during an era when that was rare. Reconstructing their time together from a remarkable cache of Steve’s writings, Alysia gives us an unforgettable portrait of a tumultuous, historic period in San Francisco as well as an exquisitely moving account of a father’s legacy and a daughter’s love. 10 illustrations Review I’m so glad you wrote this book. Terry Gross, NPRs Fresh AirCompassionate, cleareyed. Alexandra Styron, New York Times Book ReviewMore than the story of just one person; [Fairyland] also open[s] a window on an entire society. Leigh Newman, O, The Oprah MagazineI love the book Fairyland; it’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad. Sofia CoppolaDoubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in history…funny, strange, and sweet. The New YorkerAlysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS. San Francisco ChronicleGenerous, precise, and deeply moving, Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history we’re in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself. Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother?Gorgeous…As a chronicle of the moment when the San Francisco of Armistad Maupin became the city of Harvey Milk, when gay and experimental poetry flourished in California, Fairyland is vivid and indelible. As the portrait of a conspiracy of love between a father and a daughter, it is heartrending, a brilliant addition to the literature of American memoir. Honor Moore, Author of Our RevolutionA beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts. Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A MemoirClear-eyed and heartrending, Fairyland captures a singular time and place in American history. It also captures something much more important: what it means to be truly loved and to love truly. A beautiful book. Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way HomeAs she depicts the dynamics of a unique, occasionally fraught, gay parent-straight child relationship, Abbott offers unforgettable glimpses into a community that has since left an indelible mark on both the literary and social histories of one of America’s most colorful cities. A sympathetic and deeply moving story. Kirkus Reviews About the Author Alysia Abbotts work has appeared in Real Simple, Salon, and TheAtlantic . She is a graduate of the New Schools MFA program and was a contributing producer at WNYC radio. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family...

-Titulo Original : The Last Cowboys A Pioneer Family In The New West-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Remarkable…[The Last Cowboys] has an uncommon ambition: it’s a story not just of rodeo, but of the contemporary West. John Swansburg, New York Times Book ReviewGripping…what Branch focuses on so beautifully is how one remarkable American family navigates the situation of wanting to do dangerous, peculiar and deeply impressive kinds of work. Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles TimesThe Last Cowboys isn’t just about winning saddle bronc titles…It’s about the Old West becoming new. The Associated PressKeenly observed and artfully conveyed. Michael Berry, San Francisco ChronicleA real-life story that’s not only compelling, but oddly reassuring. Tucker Coombe, Los Angeles Review of BooksAvoid[s] country cliches and reveal[s] not only why rural Americans must adapt, but also the reasons they might want to. Craig Fehrman, OutsideCompelling…The Last Cowboys is an excellent, compassionate book. Michael Schaub, Minneapolis StarTribuneA tribute to the things that matter. Amanda Olson, Deseret News An NPR Book of the YearA gripping portrait of one family’s gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West and not just its past.For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents to 13 children and grandparents to many more, find themselves struggling to hang on to the majestic landscape where they’ve been running cattle for 150 years as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer?In a powerful follow-up to his prize-winning, best-selling first book, New York Times reporter John Branch delivers an epic and intimate family story deep in the American grain. Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of ranch life and the high drama of saddle-bronc competition, The Last Cowboys chronicles three years in the life of the Wrights, each culminating in rodeo’s National Finals in Las Vegas. Will Bill and Evelyn be able to hold the family together as rodeo injuries pile up and one of their sons goes off on a religious mission? Will their son Cody, a two-time world champion, make it to the finals one last time and compete with his own son? And will the younger generation Rusty, Ryder, Stetson, and the rest be able to continue the family’s ways in the future?This is a grand and compelling work of reporting that, like Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, offers deep insight into American ritual and tradition. And in telling the Wright family’s story, from branding days to rodeo nights to annual Christmas gatherings, Branch captures something vital of the grit, determination, and integrity that fuel the American Dream.An unforgettable book by one of the finest reporters of our time, The Last Cowboys is a moving tribute to an American way of life. About the Author John Branch is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times. He is the best-selling author of Boy on Ice and The Last Cowboys, and has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing. He lives near San Francisco, California...

-Titulo Original : David Crockett The Lion Of The West-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking. Texas Monthly Popular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a riveting story, Wallis’s David Crockett is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction and provides us with an extraordinary evocation of not only a true American hero but also the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived. 16 pages of illustrations Review Highly entertaining. Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeWallis understands the intriguing and mysterious element of American life and history. Stanley Crouch, New York Daily NewsRead like fiction . . . enhanced by flowing prose in portraying a flawed but fascinating frontiersman. Publishers WeeklySplendid . . . a readable and surprising biography. Allen Barra, Star Tribune About the Author Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published eighteen books and won numerous honors and awards. He is a popular public speaker and a highly acclaimed voice actor. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma...

-Titulo Original : Alaric The Goth An Outsiders History Of The Fall Of Rome-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire.Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive.Alaric grew up near the river border that separated Gothic territory from Roman. He survived a border policy that separated migrant children from their parents, and he was denied benefits he likely expected from military service. Romans were deeply conflicted over who should enjoy the privileges of citizenship. They wanted to buttress their global power, but were insecure about Roman identity; they depended on foreign goods, but scoffed at and denied foreigners their own voices and humanity. In stark contrast to the rising bigotry, intolerance, and zealotry among Romans during Alaric’s lifetime, the Goths, as practicing Christians, valued religious pluralism and tolerance. The marginalized Goths, marked by history as frightening harbingers of destruction and of the Dark Ages, preserved virtues of the ancient world that we take for granted.The three nights of riots Alaric and the Goths brought to the capital struck fear into the hearts of the powerful, but the riots were not without cause. Combining vivid storytelling and historical analysis, Douglas Boin reveals the Goths’ complex and fascinating legacy in shaping our world. 12 illustrations Review This is less a biography than the anatomy of an empire. Mr. Boin opens up the Rome of the fourth and fifth centuries and examines it with scientific precision and a wonderful turn of phrase, guiding readers with erudition and verve into battles in which men’s eyes are stabbed by arrows ‘the way a silver toothpick stabbed an olive.’ EconomistThe most engaging parts of Alaric the Goth, and by far the greater portion of its contents, diverge from Alaric’s story to give a sweeping view of Roman life near the fall of the empire. It’s here, especially in matters of Christian-pagan tension, that Mr. Boin excels. James Romm, Wall Street JournalA brilliantly readable account of the fall of the western Roman Empire, which for the first time spotlights not the Romans, but the Gothic invader Alaric. This is a story for our own age too. Douglas Boin asks us to take seriously the question of what would have happened if the tottering city of Rome had prioritized inclusive citizenship over paranoia and conflict; if it had built bridges rather than walls. This is urgent, gravid history, which will be read by anyone interested in empire, cultural conflict and the making of the modern narrative of the West. Tim Whitmarsh, author of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldAn entertaining, highly readable account of a figure who has previously been regarded as a pitiless heel straight from central casting. Boin, in a fresh approach, looks at the events leading up to the sack of Rome from the Goths’ perspective. Clayton Turner, New CriterionBoin paints a richly detailed portrait of the world in which Alaric maneuvered, defined by the thrashings of an empire in turmoil….A cogent, readable text that vividly conveys the fears and confusion that surrounded the issue of immigrants’ rights in a period of declining Roman power. Wendy Smith, The Boston GlobeThis is a story of desperation and broken promises, pitting refugees from the north seeking homes, respect, and citizenship in an unwieldy empire already juddering with anti-immigrant fears, social upheavals, and political treachery. With deep research and insight, Boin traces the trajectory of cultural conflict from dashed hopes to devastation. Adrienne Mayor, author of Gods and RobotsWritten in an enchanting and effortless style that transports you back in time, Douglas Boin’s Alaric ...

-Titulo Original : Sid Meiers Memoir! A Life In Computer Games-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming,” and creator of Civilization.Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier’s Memoir! is the story of an obsessive young computer enthusiast who helped launch a multibillion-dollar industry. Writing with warmth and ironic humor, Meier describes the genesis of his influential studio, MicroProse, founded in 1982 after a trip to a Las Vegas arcade, and recounts the development of landmark games, from vintage classics like Pirates! and Railroad Tycoon, to Civilization and beyond.Articulating his philosophy that a video game should be “a series of interesting decisions,” Meier also shares his perspective on the history of the industry, the psychology of gamers, and fascinating insights into the creative process, including his rules of good game design. 21 illustrations Review Any game designer who tries to tell you that he hasn’t taken anything away from a Sid Meier game is akin to a film director saying he has never watched a Hitchcock movie. For Sid is our Hitchcock, our Spielberg, our Ellington. Gamespot Sid Meier is a foundation of what gaming is for me today. Phil Spencer, head of Xbox[Meier is] the master of turn-based gaming. Will Wright, developer of The SimsIf you ever wished you could stay up all night and hear the most amazing stories from one of the worlds most creative people, Sids memoir is for you. This book is full of incredible tech history and deep insights into what it takes to make a world-class game. But most of all, I loved getting inside Sid’s brain and seeing things from his inventive and wise point of view. Jane McGonigal, author of the New York Times bestseller Reality is Broken: How Games Can Change the World and Make Us Better[A] fascinating look at the legendary designer’s career. It’s full of anecdotes and design principles that Meier has learned over the years. Jason Schreier, Bloomberg[H]eartfelt and informative….[This book] will appeal to old-school gamers with an appreciation for the history of video games. Kirkus Reviews About the Author Sid Meier, creator of Civilization, has been honored with virtually every award in the video game industry. A member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame and founder of Firaxis Games, Meier lives in Hunt Valley, Maryland...

-Titulo Original : Oliver Wendell Holmes A Life In War, Law, And Ideas-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity.Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law by showing how the law always evolved to meet the changing needs of society. As an enthusiastic friend and indefatigable correspondent, he wrote thousands of personal letters brimming with humorous philosophical insights, trenchant comments on the current scene, and an abiding joy in fighting the good fight.Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky’s definitive biography offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure, whose zest for life, wit, and intellect left a profound legacy in law and Constitutional rights, and who was an inspiring example of how to lead a meaningful life in a world of uncertainty and upheaval. 90 illustrations Review Lively and engaging biography....At a time when progressives and conservatives alike are so sure of their own premises that America is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War, the skeptical humility, as Budiansky puts it, that Holmes took from the war seems more elusive, and more urgently needed, than ever. - Jeffrey Rosen, Washington Post Top-notch....Turning the influential judges life into a page-turner seems a highly difficult task, but journalist and historian Budiansky succeeds admirably....An entirely fascinating biography of one of Americas most important legal minds. - Kirkus (starred review)With insight and panache....Budiansky paints a nuanced picture of this exceptionally influential judge....Makes a dry life of the mind into a lively life of a man, and a very appealing one at that....A winner from start to finish, this is a natural fit for anyone who enjoys history or biography. - Library Journal (starred review)Budianskys Oliver Wendell Holmes is a lively, accessible book, retelling the story of its subjects life and work for a generation that knows Holmes was important but not why.... exciting and well-written - Noah Feldman, New York Times Consistently gripping reading...possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject - Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor From the Back Cover The longevity and complexity of Holmes life and judicial philosophy present a formidable challenge to a biographer. Stephen Budiansky has met that challenge in distinguished fashion. Weaving together Holmess private and public lives with a clarity that reveals what had often seemed obscure in previous biographies, this book also shows how Holmes experience as a thrice-wounded Civil War officer subtly shaped his social and juridical ideas during the next seventy years. - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era About the Author Stephen Budiansky is a historian, author, and journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he resides in Loudoun County, Virginia...

-Titulo Original : American Oligarchs The Kushners, The Trumps, And The Marriage Of Money And Power-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: An absorbing, novelistic, and powerfully affecting work of history and investigative journalism that tracks the unraveling of American democracy. In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families like never before. Building on her landmark reporting for the acclaimed podcast Trump, Inc. and The New Yorker, Bernstein brings to light new information about the families’ arrival as immigrants to America, their paths to success, and the business and personal lives of the president and his closest family members. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and more than one hundred thousand pages of documents, American Oligarchs details how the Trump and Kushner dynasties encouraged and profited from a system of corruption, dark money, and influence trading, and reveals the historical turning points and decisions?on taxation, regulation, white-collar crime, and campaign finance laws?that have brought us to where we are today. A new afterword examines how the two families’ transactional politics left America particularly vulnerable to the crises of 2020. Review Anyone concerned about American democracy should read Andrea Bernstein’s devastating expose of the Trump and Kushner families. Jane Mayer, The New Yorker staff writer and New York Times best-selling author of Dark Money About the Author Andrea Bernstein is the Peabody Award-winning cohost of the acclaimed WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc., which won the prestigious 2019 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award. In addition to broadcast appearances on outlets including PBS NewsHour, CNN, and Fresh Air, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York, and on NPR...

-Titulo Original : Losing The Nobel Prize A Story Of Cosmology, Ambition, And The Perils Of Sciences Highest Honor-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Charming and clever, Losing the Nobel Prize bounces between clear explanations of nitty-gritty science, accounts of personal relationships and historical lessons. ScienceNewsBy losing the Nobel Prize, Keating… has led us to an even greater victory: the recognition that there are more important things in this Universe… than the fleeting glory of an earthly award. ForbesA compelling personal memoir, a fascinating history of cosmology, and an interesting firsthand account of a dramatic scientific adventure. Physics Today[Keating] is a deft writer, interweaving the science with personal musings. Ron Cowen, NatureAn engaging examination of challenges that scientists, especially cosmologists, face today. Ramin Skibba, UndarkEngaging and accessible.… Science enthusiasts and scientists alike will enjoy delving into this exciting extragalactic drama. Library JournalBrian Keatings riveting new book tells the inside story of the search for cosmic origins, emphasizing the influence of Nobel dreams and laying bare the question of whether the lure of grand prizes is ultimately a good thing for science. Brian Greene, author of The Elegant UniverseA fascinating autobiographical account, full of intriguing detail, of the passions and inspirations that underlie the scientific quest to comprehend the nature and origins of our universe.… A highly thoughtful and informative book. Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, and author of The Emperor’s New MindVisionary Brian Keating takes us along on a refreshing and honest journey to see how great discoveries are made and unmade. This is one of the greatest stories told in cosmology. I couldn’t put it down! Stephon Alexander, professor of physics, Brown University; jazz musician; and author of The Jazz of PhysicsIn this riveting personal account, Brian Keating writes frankly of his challenges, frustrations, and motivations during the years spent building and operating the instruments used to tackle one of the most fundamental problems in science: how our universe began. Martin J. Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of Universe Riveting. Science A Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018Cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment, Brian Keating tells the inside story of the mesmerizing quest to unlock cosmology’s biggest mysteries and the human drama that ensued. We follow along on a personal journey of revelation and discovery in the publish-or-perish world of modern science, and learn that the Nobel Prize might hamper rather than advance scientific progress. Fortunately, Keating offers practical solutions for reform, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may finally be able to see all the way back to the very beginning. About the Author Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a commercially rated pilot; and the director of the Simons Observatory. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work on BICEP. He lives with his family in La Jolla, California...

-Titulo Original : Next The Future Just Happened-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The New York Times bestseller. His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan. BusinessWeek With his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the hands of revolutionaries. Old priesthoods are crumbling. In the new order, the amateur is king: fourteen-year-olds manipulate the stock market and nineteen-year-olds take down the music industry. Unseen forces undermine all forms of collectivism, from the family to the mass market: one black box has the power to end television as we know it, and another one may dictate significant changes in our practice of democracy. With a new afterword by the author. Review Next does not come too late to the crash-and-burn Internet book fest. It come just in time at the speed of a falling safe. USA Today About the Author Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children...

-Titulo Original : Economics Rules The Rights And Wrongs Of The Dismal Science-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Full of good insights. . . . If you’re at all interested in economics you’ll want to read it. Clive Crook, BloombergViewRodrik’s plea is for economics to be practiced with a bit more humility both by those who extol free markets and those who would tame them. Steven Pearlstein, Washington PostThe best economists make the best methodologists, and Dani Rodrik is both. His Economics Rules is the single best source for explaining the strengths and weaknesses of economics to an outside audience. Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, author of The Great StagnationIn Economics Rules, enjoyment enhances learning, with lessons for economists and non-economists alike indeed, ten commandments for each. The book is a page-turner with every page carrying an important and memorable take-away. Margaret Levi, director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University “A hugely valuable contribution. . . . In setting out a defence of the best in economics, Rodrik has also provided a goal for the discipline as a whole.” Martin Sandbu, Financial TimesIn the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline.Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the disciplines much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons just as children’s fables offer diverse morals.Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context.The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality.At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science. About the Author Dani Rodrik, a prize-winning economist, is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of The Globalization Paradox and Economics Rules...

-Titulo Original : The 10 Rules Of Successful Nations-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Sharma’s new book is filled with amazing data…fascinating insights and revealing anecdotes; this is quite simply the best guide to the global economy today. Whether you are an observer or an investor, you cannot afford to ignore it. Fareed ZakariaInstead of pious statements about poverty, or portentous mutterings on the importance of American leadership, Mr. Sharma sees the world from the ruthless and restless perspective of an investor. EconomistRuchir Sharma is a shrewd and thoughtful observer of emerging markets. His insights deserve the attention of all who care about the future of the global economy. Lawrence H. SummersLively and informative. Martin Wolf, Financial TimesSharma’s mission is as ambitious as it is well-executed. A mix of humble pragmatism and daring decisiveness make his tips compelling and credible. Katrina Hamlin, ReutersA vital guide to the new economic order. Rana Foroohar, Time The 10 Rules of Successful Nations offers a pithy guide to real-world economics, adapted from the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of Nations.A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, The 10 Rules of Successful Nations is a slim primer full of pioneering insights on the political, economic, and social habits of successful nations.Distilled from Sharma’s quarter century traveling the world as a writer and investor, his rules challenge conventional textbook thinking on what matters and what doesn’t for a strong economy. He shows why successful nations embrace robots and immigrants, prefer democratic leaders to autocrats, elect charismatic reformers over technocrats, and pay no mind to the debate about big versus small government. He explains why rising stock prices matter as much or more than food prices, which measure of debt is the best predictor of economic crises, and why no one number can accurately capture the value of a currency. He also demonstrates how a close reading of the Forbes billionaire lists can offer the clearest real-time warning of populist revolts against the wealthy.Updated with brand-new data, 10 Rules reimagines economics as a practical art, giving general readers as well as political and business leaders a quick guide to the most important forces that shape a nation’s future. About the Author Ruchir Sharma penned the international bestseller Breakout Nations and is a contributing op-ed writer at the New York Times. His commentary has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. He is chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, based in New York...

-Titulo Original : We Wanted Workers Unraveling The Immigration Narrative-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review However much you think you know about immigration, youll learn something from this book. Mark Krikorian, The National ReviewA readable and detailed historical tour of America’s immigration debates and policies…[Borjas] generously provides readers with arguments on all sides. Wall Street JournalAn intriguing, clearly written polemic. Kirkus ReviewsOne of America’s leading immigration economists presents a level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration on migrant and nonmigrant workers. Publishers WeeklyWe Wanted Workers is essential to understanding America’s future. Drawing on decades of research, Borjas cuts through the myths and obfuscations plaguing our immigration debate. This is the most lucid, powerful work of social science I’ve ever read. Reihan Salam, executive editor, National ReviewAn invaluable addition to the literature on U.S. immigration policy. A model of lucid exposition, it delves deeply into the subtle complexities of a subject that has been rife with sloppy and wishful thinking. Borjas reviews a mountain of evidence in support of a forceful argument for the position that, while there are benefits, one needs also to be mindful of the considerable costs associated with the liberalization of immigration policies. Glenn C. Loury, Merton P. Stolz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown UniversityBorjas, the world’s leading economic expert on immigration, has penned a nontechnical, nearly conversational book pointing out all the issues in immigration’s effects on an economy particularly the American economy. The central message is ‘it depends’ impacts are positive or negative for different natives, different kinds of immigrants, and at different times. With immigration again a central political issue, this book is must-reading for every voter. Daniel Hamermesh, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Royal Holloway University of LondonA captivating, insightful and easily accessible book that makes great reading for everyone interested in the subject. Christian Dustmann, University College LondonLucid and illuminating. Binyamin Appelbaum, correspondent for The New York Times From America’s leading immigration economist (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration.We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of paupers. Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become pervasive. To many modern economists, immigrants are a trove of much-needed workers who can fill predetermined slots along the proverbial assembly line.But this view of immigration’s impact is overly simplified, explains George J. Borjas, a Cuban-American, Harvard labor economist. Immigrants are more than just workers they’re people who have lives outside of the factory gates and who may or may not fit the ideal of the country to which they’ve come to live and work. Like the rest of us, they’re protected by social insurance programs, and the choices they make are affected by their social environments.In We Wanted Workers, Borjas pulls back the curtain of political bluster to show that, in the grand scheme, immigration has not affected the average American all that much. But it has created winners and losers. The losers tend to be nonmigrant workers who compete for the same jobs as immigrants. And somebody’s lower wage is somebody else’s higher profit, so those who employ immigrants benefit handsomely. In the end, immigration is mainly just another government redistribution program.I am an immigrant, writes Borjas, and yet I do not buy into the notion that immigration is universally beneficial…But I still feel that it is a good thing to give some of the poor and huddled masses, people who face so many hardships, a chance to experience the incredible opportunitie...

-Titulo Original : Global Capitalism-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review [Jeffry A.] Frieden has a wonderful way of weaving together politics and economics, micro and macro, past and present in an accessible narrative that is as even-handed and objective on the subject as you’ll find. Washington PostEssential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of globalization from 1870 to the present. John Bruton, Irish Independent One of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written. Michael Hirsh, New York TimesAn authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. About the Author Jeffry A. Frieden is the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. A specialist on the politics of international financial relations, he is also coauthor, with Menzie Chinn, of Lost Decades, a history of the 2008 financial crisis...

-Titulo Original : Globalization And Its Discontents (norton Paperback)-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insiders analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. Review Accessible, provocative and highly readable. … Brings an insiders insights into the crises of the 1990s and beyond, from East Asia to Russia and on to Argentina. New York Times About the Author Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti- Globalization in the Age of Trump, The Price of Inequality, and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute...

-Titulo Original : The Triumph Of Injustice How The Rich Dodge Taxes And How To Make Them Pay-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review In an age when the primary instinct of many left-leaning people is to yearn for a time machine, [The Triumph of Injustice] is a bracing and brave formulation of a radical new approach to public funding. Oliver Bullough, GuardianCrystal clear, rigorously empirical.… It’s the to-do list for the next president. Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for RealistsIn 2018, for the first time in more than one hundred years, billionaires paid a lower tax rate than ordinary workers, crowning the dismantling of America’s system of progressive taxation. In this eye-opening book, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman show that there is no iron law of economics that led us here, just many whose self-interest or misunderstanding of economics make them claim the opposite. Their radical proposal to reinvent taxation for a globalized world will become an unavoidable starting point to any intelligent conversation. Esther Duflo, coauthor of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyAmerica is tired of inequality and oligarchy. Armed with eye-popping new data, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reveal how tax injustice is fueling the oligarchic drift. But above all, they propose bold solutions to help America reconnect with its tradition of tax justice, from the taxation of extreme wealth and giant corporations to the funding of health care for all. This is a brilliantly argued book that is an essential contribution to the global economic and political debate of the twenty-first century. Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Triumph of Injustice ?is a groundbreaking work that uncovers a diabolical driver of America’s shocking and growing inequality: unfair and regressive tax policies and a tax-avoidance industry that serves the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Until we reverse this topsy-turvy regime where ordinary workers may pay a larger share of their income than the very richest Americans we can’t hope to address our biggest social problems. Anyone who hopes for a better future for everyday Americans needs to read this book. Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent “The most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.” David Leonhardt, New York TimesEven as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who have revolutionized the study of inequality. Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system alongside a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes. About the Author Emmanuel Saez is professor of economics and director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. With Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in public debate. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.Gabriel Zucman is professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research analyzes the accumulation and distribution of wealth through global and historical perspectives. He received his PhD in economics from the Paris School of Economics in 2013. He was awarded the Bernacer Prize in 2018 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2019. He is the author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The ...

-Titulo Original : The Elephant And The Dragon The Rise Of India And China And What It Means For All Of Us-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers. Noam Lupu, San Francisco ChronicleThe Elephant and the Dragon is the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, were seeing startling shifts in how and where nearly everything we buy is made. In a compelling mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, veteran journalist Robyn Meredith untangles the complex web of business and politics, as well as environmental and cultural issues that entwine India, China, and the West. She also outlines how Americans business leaders, workers, politicians, even parents can understand the vast changes coming and thrive in this new age. Review A comprehensive primer on the development of these Asian tigers. -- San Francisco Chronicle, Noam LupuFast-paced, readable and revealing. -- International Herald Tribune, Chris NicholsonRobyn Meredith neatly navigates between the boom and the gloom. -- Wall Street Journal, Matthew Rees About the Author Robyn Meredith is a foreign correspondent for Forbes. An award-winning journalist, she was formerly a correspondent for the New York Times. She lives in Hong Kong...

-Titulo Original : Naked Money A Revealing Look At What It Is And Why It Matters-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: About the Author Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy and economics at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family. The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.The search for an answer triggers countless other questions along the way: Why does paper money (“fiat currency” if you want to be fancy) even exist? And why do some nations, like Zimbabwe in the 1990s, print so much of it that it becomes more valuable as toilet paper than as currency? How do central banks use the power of money creation to stop financial crises? Why does most of Europe share a common currency, and why has that arrangement caused so much trouble? And will payment apps, bitcoin, or other new technologies render all of this moot?In Naked Money, Wheelan tackles all of the above and more, showing us how our banking and monetary systems should work in ideal situations and revealing the havoc and suffering caused in real situations by inflation, deflation, illiquidity, and other monetary effects. Throughout, Wheelan’s uniquely bright-eyed, whimsical style brings levity and clarity to a subject often devoid of both. With illuminating stories from Argentina, Zimbabwe, North Korea, America, China, and elsewhere around the globe, Wheelan demystifies the curious world behind the paper in our wallets and the digits in our bank accounts...

-Titulo Original : This Blessed Earth A Year In The Life Of An American Family Farm-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic. Milwaukee Journal SentinelThe family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm and their entire way of life are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love. 8 pages of illustrations Review A real eye-opener. Genoways presents a very Steinbeckian story: Americans struggling heroically against forces outside their control. Erin Grace, Omaha World-HeraldA history book, an economics text, even a soap opera of sorts. If we eat, we should know. Minneapolis Star TribuneClear-eyed and unsentimental.… [Genoways] writes with authority.… [and] comes from a long line of Nebraskans himself. Arlo Crawford, The New York Times Book ReviewThis Blessed Earth is a sort of universal story of family farmers and all they’re up against in their efforts to take care of the land and make a living from it. It’s also a crash course in the history that brought us to this place of corporate power, shrinking resources, and a changing climate. But it plants seeds of hope as the next generation prepares to inherit the family land and all of the joys and challenges that come with it. This book is an invitation to all who care about family farmers which after all is all of us, since we all eat! Willie Nelson, founder and president of Farm AidEveryone who eats in America should read this lyrical and often heartbreaking book about life on a modern American farm. It will change the way you look at what is on your plate. Ruth Reichl, New York Times best-selling author of My Kitchen YearIn an impressive and compelling work of literary journalism, Ted Genoways dives deep into the heart of an American farm family, illuminating critical issues troubling our complex food production system. But he also describes in intimate detail the very human struggles of the work between husband and wife, parent and child, father-in-law and son-in-law in one family committed to growing our food and passing the work on to the next generation. Michael Ruhlman, author of Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food In AmericaIt’s not fair to claim that you are concerned about the country’s food system unless you truly understand the millions of unsung conventional family farmers who produce our corn, soybeans, and beef. Genoways portrays just such a family in a book that is factual, rich in history, and filled with characters you will come to know as friends. He writes with an investigative journalist’s mind and a poet’s soul. Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland and Pig TalesTed Genoways brings a lifetime of knowledge to the complex story of modern agriculture. His depth of understanding is evident on every page as he follows the Hammonds through a year on their Nebraska farm, examining the way they are not only at the behest of traditional challenges such as weather and time, but also subject to international trade agreements, worldwide competition, and the challenges of scale. In This Blessed Earth, Genoways masterfully illustrates the costs and demands of such a life, and beautifully renders the endurance and dignity of those who have chosen it....

-Titulo Original : The Great Divide Unequal Societies And What We Can Do About Them-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review [Joseph Stiglitz] is an insanely great economist. Paul Krugman, New York Times How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it?In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America’s growing problem. With his signature blend of clarity and passion, Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.Gathering his writings for popular outlets including Vanity Fair and the New York Times, Stiglitz exposes in full Americas inequality: its dimensions, its causes, and its consequences for the nation and for the world. From Reagan-era to the Great Recession and its long aftermath, Stiglitz delves into the irresponsible policies deregulation, tax cuts, and tax breaks for the 1 percent that are leaving many Americans farther and farther beyond and turning the American dream into an ever more unachievable myth. With formidable yet accessible economic insight, he urges us to embrace real solutions: increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy; offering more help to the children of the poor; investing in education, science, and infrastructure; helping out homeowners instead of banks; and, most importantly, doing more to restore the economy to full employment. Stiglitz also draws lessons from Scandinavia, Singapore, and Japan, and he argues against the tide of unnecessary, destructive austerity that is sweeping across Europe.Ultimately, Stiglitz believes our choice is not between growth and fairness; with the right policies, we can choose both. His complaint is not so much about capitalism as such, but how twenty-first-century capitalism has been perverted. His is a call to confront Americas economic inequality as the political and moral issue that it is. If we reinvest in people and pursue the other policies that he describes, America can live up to the shared dream of a more prosperous, more equal society. About the Author Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti- Globalization in the Age of Trump, The Price of Inequality, and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute...

-Titulo Original : The Euro How A Common Currency Threatens The Future Of Europe-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: The Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro. When Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz posed this question in the original edition of The Euro, he lent much-needed clarity to a global debate that continues to this day. The euro was supposed to unify Europe and promote prosperity; in fact, it has done just the opposite. To save the European project, the euro may have to be abandoned. Since 2010, many of the 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency the eurozone have been rocked by debt crises and mired in lasting stagnation, and the divergence between stronger and weaker economies has accelerated. In The Euro, Joseph E. Stiglitz explains precisely why the eurozone has performed so poorly, so different from the expectations at its launch: at the core of the failure is the structure of the eurozone itself, the rules by which it is governed. Stiglitz reveals three potential paths forward: drastic structural reforms, not of the individual countries, but of the eurozone; a well-managed dissolution of the euro; or a bold new system dubbed the “flexible euro.” With trenchant analysis and brand new material on Brexit The Euro is urgent and timely reading. Review Terrific and clarifying. Peter Goodman, The New York Times[Stiglitz] is surely right. Without a radical overhaul of its workings, the euro seems all but certain to fail. The EconomistMany of Mr. Stiglitz’s most damning observations are on target. Wall Street JournalStiglitz lucidly and forcefully argues that [the euro] was an economic experiment of unprecedented magnitude.… [He] gives a detailed and persuasive list of measures that would help save the euro. John Lanchester, New YorkerStiglitz’s verdict is convincing.… We should brace ourselves, over the next few years, for what may be a difficult economic divorce. Rana Foroohar, New York Review of BooksMuch more than a demolition job. These chapters are full of constructive proposals a glimpse of what the ‘rescues’ would have looked like had the troika, perish the thought, hired their critic Stiglitz to design them. Marin Sandbu, Financial TimesCogent.… Stiglitz’s prescription is compelling. Bethany McLean, Washington PostThe euro is a modern tragedy.…As its embarrassments have mounted, its supporters club has teemed with political romantics and Europhile journalists. Stiglitz’s message to such people is that they are inadvertently destroying what they most cherish. Paul Collier, Times Literary SupplementStiglitz seeks to salvage the Eurozone experiment and the future of globalized Europe. And not a moment too soon! Anderson Tepper, Vanity FairStiglitz argues with his customary force and lucidity that adopting a single European currency was a fatal error. Jeet Heer, New Republic About the Author Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti- Globalization in the Age of Trump, The Price of Inequality, and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute...

-Titulo Original : Economics Rules The Rights And Wrongs Of The Dismal Science-Fabricante : W. W. Norton & Company-Descripcion Original: Review Economics Rules, by one of the worlds truly great economists, describes in fascinating and incredibly well-written detail what it means to be an economist. In so doing it explains why, and when, economists often get it right, but also why they also frequently go astray. George Akerlof, Nobel laureate in economicsThe best economists make the best methodologists, and Dani Rodrik is both. His Economics Rules is the single best source for explaining the strengths and weaknesses of economics to an outside audience. Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, author of The Great StagnationIn Economics Rules, enjoyment enhances learning, with lessons for economists and non-economists alike indeed, ten commandments for each. The book is a page-turner with every page carrying an important and memorable take-away. Margaret Levi, director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Rethinking economics, from the inside out.In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline.Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right. Economics Rules argues that the disciplines much-derided mathematical models are its true strength. Models are the tools that make economics a science.Too often, however, economists mistake a model for the model that applies everywhere and at all times. In six chapters that trace his discipline from Adam Smith to present-day work on globalization, Rodrik shows how diverse situations call for different models. Each model tells a partial story about how the world works. These stories offer wide-ranging, and sometimes contradictory, lessons just as children’s fables offer diverse morals.Whether the question concerns the rise of global inequality, the consequences of free trade, or the value of deficit spending, Rodrik explains how using the right models can deliver valuable new insights about social reality and public policy. Beyond the science, economics requires the craft to apply suitable models to the context.The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers challenged many economists deepest assumptions about free markets. Rodrik reveals that economists model toolkit is much richer than these free-market models. With pragmatic model selection, economists can develop successful antipoverty programs in Mexico, growth strategies in Africa, and intelligent remedies for domestic inequality.At once a forceful critique and defense of the discipline, Economics Rules charts a path toward a more humble but more effective science. About the Author Dani Rodrik, a prize-winning economist, is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of The Globalization Paradox and Economics Rules...