Economics

Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

In a rare attempt to understand the Indianness of Indians, V. Raghunathan uses the props of game theory and behavioral economics to provide an insight into the difficult conundrum of why we are the way we are....

Nataly Kelly, Chief Growth Officer at Rebrandly (a global tech company with customers in more than 100 countries) and former VP International Ops and Strategy at HubSpot, says now the goal should be market intensification—building on the presence you already have....

In recent years, investors have learned the hard truth that, in the international economy, politics often matters at least as much as economic fundamentals....

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates....

The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible....

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat....

In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

In his engaging memoir Street Smarts, Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years....

Stefan Dercon takes a look at how development has been achieved across the world, and how to assist such successes....

The 21st century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic....

Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis....

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution....

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years....

Penguin Audio presents Has the West Lost It? by Kishore Mahbubani, read by Jonathan Keeble....

Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten historic events. They serve as a series of cautionary tales, each with their own set of lessons to be learnt....

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon....

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....

Is India ready for superpower status or too far behind China to ever catch up....

Una frattura si allarga sempre di più. L'abbiamo ignorata, sottovalutata, creduta lontana, eppure da cinquant'anni si amplia e si...

Jagdish Bhagwati takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today....

In No Ordinary Disruption, the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, dive deeply behind current headlines to analyze the key forces transforming the global economy over the next two decades....

Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation....