Naturally, everybody has made a New Year’s Resolution to read more economics books. Here are some forthcoming highlights. I’m starting with the university presses, and as ever favouritism as well as its excellent economics list means Princeton University Press kicks us off.

The PUP Spring 2016 catalogue highlights William Goetzmann’s [amazon_link id=”B017MVYMSA” target=”_blank” ]Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible[/amazon_link]; [amazon_link id=”B017I2M8ZC” target=”_blank” ]Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy[/amazon_link] by Robert Frank; [amazon_link id=”0691170495″ target=”_blank” ]Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality[/amazon_link] by Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson; [amazon_link id=”0691165459″ target=”_blank” ]Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe[/amazon_link] by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage. There’s also a fantastic list outside economics. I most want to read Frans De Waal’s [amazon_link id=”0691169160″ target=”_blank” ]Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved[/amazon_link].

[amazon_image id=”B017MVYMSA” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible[/amazon_image]  [amazon_image id=”B017I2M8ZC” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691170495″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691165459″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0691169160″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (Princeton Science Library)[/amazon_image]

Over at Yale University Press, there’s James Galbraith’s [amazon_link id=”0300220448″ target=”_blank” ]Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe[/amazon_link]; [amazon_link id=”0300163800″ target=”_blank” ]The Moral Economy[/amazon_link] by Sam Bowles; the paperback of [amazon_link id=”0300210981″ target=”_blank” ]Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet [/amazon_link]by Dieter Helm; and [amazon_link id=”0300194412″ target=”_blank” ]What They Do With Your Money: How the financial system fails us and how to fix[/amazon_link] it by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson.

[amazon_image id=”0300220448″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300163800″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lectures Series)[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300210981″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0300194412″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]What They Do with Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix it[/amazon_image]

 Oxford University Press has just released Deborah Brautigam’s [amazon_link id=”019939685X” target=”_blank” ]Will Africa Feed China? [/amazon_link]Coming soon are: [amazon_link id=”0198747543″ target=”_blank” ]A Few Hares To Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips[/amazon_link] by Alan Bollard; [amazon_link id=”0190460679″ target=”_blank” ]All The Facts: A History of Information in the United States Since 1870[/amazon_link] by James Cortada (going to have to read that one!); [amazon_link id=”019875356X” target=”_blank” ]China as an Innovation Nation[/amazon_link] by Yu Zhou, William Lazonick, Yifei Sun; and [amazon_link id=”0199390630″ target=”_blank” ]Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises[/amazon_link] by Anwar Shaikh. There’s also Calestous Juma’s Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies – not yet on Amazon but trailed on Twitter.

[amazon_image id=”B0146Y9TNE” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Will Africa Feed China?[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”B019GXM8V0″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0190460679″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”019875356X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]China as an Innovation Nation[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0199390630″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises[/amazon_image]

 Cambridge University Press has fewer titles aimed at non-specialists. One that caught my eye was [amazon_link id=”1107514509″ target=”_blank” ]The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay For the Failure of American and European Banks? [/amazon_link]by Johan Lybeck. For growth folks, [amazon_link id=”1316503895″ target=”_blank” ]Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth[/amazon_link] edited by Arena and Porter looks a possibility.

[amazon_image id=”1107106850″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay for the Failure of American and European Banks?[/amazon_image]  [amazon_image id=”1316503895″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth[/amazon_image]

MIT Press has a promising-looking catalogue. On macro, there’s what will be a must-read, [amazon_link id=”026203462X” target=”_blank” ]Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy[/amazon_link], by Blanchard, Rajan, Rogoff and Summers. Also coming soon are [amazon_link id=”0262034581″ target=”_blank” ]China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation [/amazon_link]by George Yip and Bruce McKern, and [amazon_link id=”0262034484″ target=”_blank” ]The Disruption Dilemma[/amazon_link] by Joshua Gans. There’s a couple of interesting-looking edited volumes, [amazon_link id=”0262034085″ target=”_blank” ]Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality[/amazon_link]; and [amazon_link id=”0262034441″ target=”_blank” ]Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms[/amazon_link]. By Hal Scott there is [amazon_link id=”0262034379″ target=”_blank” ]Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics[/amazon_link].

[amazon_image id=”026203462X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034581″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]China’s Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034379″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0262034484″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Disruption Dilemma[/amazon_image]

I will have to read [amazon_link id=”0231175108″ target=”_blank” ]The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP[/amazon_link] by Philippe Lepenies from Columbia University Press. Other titles this spring include [amazon_link id=”0231172583″ target=”_blank” ]Economic Thought: A Brief History[/amazon_link] by Heinz Kurz; [amazon_link id=”0231173725″ target=”_blank” ]The Evolution of Money[/amazon_link] by David Orrell and Roman Chlupaty; and I[amazon_link id=”0231164629″ target=”_blank” ]nside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases[/amazon_link] by Yefei Lu.

[amazon_image id=”0231175108″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0231172583″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Economic Thought: A Brief History[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0231173725″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Evolution of Money[/amazon_image]

Forthcoming from Harvard University Press are [amazon_link id=”0674051149″ target=”_blank” ]The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America[/amazon_link] by Rowena Olegario; Finding Time: The Economics of Work Life Conflict by Heather Boushey; [amazon_link id=”0674660498″ target=”_blank” ]From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Post-Industrial City[/amazon_link] by Chloe Taft; [amazon_link id=”0674737237″ target=”_blank” ]From The War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America[/amazon_link] by Elisabeth Hinton; [amazon_link id=”067473713X” target=”_blank” ]Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization[/amazon_link] by Brank Milanovic; [amazon_link id=”0674088824″ target=”_blank” ]Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics[/amazon_link] by Jens Beckert; [amazon_link id=”0674504917″ target=”_blank” ]The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law[/amazon_link] by Brett Christophers; and [amazon_link id=”0674088883″ target=”_blank” ]Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking and the Financial Crisis of 1772[/amazon_link] by Tyler Beck Goodspeed. Lots of enticement here.

[amazon_image id=”0674051149″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Engine of Enterprise: Credit in America[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674660498″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674737237″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674504917″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law[/amazon_image]

[amazon_image id=”067473713X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674088824″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics[/amazon_image] [amazon_image id=”0674088883″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772[/amazon_image]

Inevitably, this is only a partial list. If any publishers particularly want to flag up something I’ve omitted to readers of this blog please let me know – I’m happy to update this post, and one covering other publishers’ forthcoming titles will follow.