Time for a catch-up on some publishers' catalogues sent recently: Norton, Palgrave Macmillan and Edward Elgar.

From Norton's 2009 article, a couple of US-focused general titles which might interest economists. Flat Broke in the Global Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People by Jon Jeter; and More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson. On the tech front, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr is out in paperback.

Palgrave Macmillan, in addition to the new Palgrave Dictionary of Economics featured earlier on this blog, has brought out a 2nd edition of the Krugman/Wells textbook and the 2nd volume of the Handbook of Econometrics. Another new title is Economics 2.0: What the Best Minds in Economics Can Teach You About Business and Life. Son number 1 is currently reading this (slowly) so I hope to persuade him to review it here later. There is also an introduction to Post-Keynesian economics by Marc Lavole, a subject in which there is presumably more interest than there was pre-crash, although I note that some P-K and heterdox economists are paradoxically bad-tempered about the mainstream adopting some of their views. I was particularly interested in Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World, on which I'll post at a later date as well as probably review for the next SBE journal. Also quite a few new titles in development economics and a tantalising one called Economic Returns and Economic Efficiency by Yew-Kwang Ng – a lot of my day job involves me in increasing returns industries.

Third up is Edward Elgar – always priced for libraries rather than individual purchases. A UK-specific title which caught my eye is The Political Economy of Financing a Scottish Government by Paul Hallwood and Ronald MacDonald, sure to stay a hot-button issue in UK politics. Also a collection of previously-published papers called Recent Developments in Monetary Policy edited by Alec Chrystal and Paul Mizen, featuring papers by all the top names in theory and practice – Bernanke, King, Bean, Lucas, Kydland, Goodhart etc – which might be a useful reference work. Finally, a lot of new titles on innovation and technology, for specialists in those fields.