The four books we have selected for this month address interesting questions: How did economic crashes affect globalization? What are the realistic paths to sustainability? Why the concept of scarcity is historically novel? How does it feel to be a pioneer in economics?

For our selection this month we picked two books on prosperity, one on China but with an insider’s view and one on asset managers who now own the basic building blocks of everyday life.

Our selection for this month includes two books on financial stability and two books on the Federal Reserve. Had this been last month’s selection it would have been quite prophetic!

Four books, four authors who think “outside the box:” on how to tackle the complexity of environmental policy; on regionalism vs globalization; on the truth about India’s economic growth; and on how central banks became so powerful.

Our selection for this month includes: two books with opposing views on the interplay between monetary and fiscal policies; one book on the Fed’s history and another on the ties between democracy and capitalism.

Four great books on: the international economic system, the climate future, technocracy and politics and the Goliaths of the digital age.

For this month we selected four books which help explain current crises: why governments get it wrong? Can central banks achieve a soft landing? What are the ten overlapping and interconnected threats in the near future? What happens when growth is harder to come by?

For September, we have selected four books on “how did we get here,” from a historical and ideological point of view.

For this month we have selected two books with big ideas on how to modify the Eurozone’s economic governance and how to create a just political economy in the U.S.  A new book on the harm economists can inflict and another on our “fragile future.”

What went wrong with women in economics? Are we trusting numbers too much? Governments or markets are best suited to manage long-term uncertainty? And finally, a short Piketty book!