Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Georgy Egorov (Northwestern), and Konstantin Sonin (CEPR): Political Economy in a Changing World. Chris Armstrong (Southampton): Against "Permanent Sovereignty" over Natural Resources; and Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Justice. Ariel BenYishay (UNSW) and Roger Betancourt (Maryland): Unbundling Democracy: Tilly Trumps Schumpeter. Friedrich Schneider (Linz) and Colin C. Williams (Sheffield): The Shadow Economy. Joseph Ato Forson, Jakkaphong Janrattanagul, and Emmanuel Carsamer (NIDA): Culture Matters: A Test of Rationality on Economic Growth. Geoffrey Gareth Jones (Harvard): Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective. Axel Dreher, Vera Z. Eichenauer, and Kai Gehring (Heidelberg): Geopolitics, Aid and Growth. Ross P. Buckley (UNSW): The Bankruptcy of Nations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come. You can download Pathways to Freedom Political and Economic Lessons from Democratic Transitions, ed. Isobel Coleman and Terra Lawson-Remer. Daniel Altman on the nearly foolproof recipe to make poor countries richer. The introduction to Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance, and Global Power by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon and Ashby H. B. Monk. Welcome to the geopolitics of trade, where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli. Isaac Nakhimovsky reviews Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy by Sophus A. Reinert.
