By Nuno Palma (2023)
Pages: 405, Final verdict: Must-read
Why do some countries become richer, and others don't? That is the question that economic historians—and not too many other people—obsess about.
Nuno Palma is one of those people. A Professor of Economics at the University of...
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By Hein de Haas (2023)
Pages: 464, Final verdict: Must-read
Migration is at the center of political discussions and public opinion. We hear about it constantly in the news, in political debates, and across social media feeds. But beneath the shouting matches and clickbait headlines, how much do we actually...
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By Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (2023)
Pages: 304, Final verdict: Great-read
If I told you that your next project has a 99.5% chance of failing, would you still do it?
Read How Big Things Get Done, and you will.
After more than two decades researching why most projects...
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By J. Bradford DeLong (2022)
Pages: 546, Final verdict: Should-read
To most of us, the twentieth century feels both intimately familiar and immensely complex. Two world wars, the emergence and collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the CCP in China and multiple economic recessions. It doesn't...
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By Tim Harford (2020)
Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read
I first came across Tim Harford's writing more than a decade ago, when he wrote of the most popular economics books of the 00's - The Undercover Economist. Since then, Harford become a leading figure in Economics,...
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