Books like The rise and fall of nations by Ruchir Sharma

Thomas Piketty’s landmark economic history traces the rise of inequality, the power of capital returns, and the role of policy in shaping wealth distribution over two centuries.

Timothy Snyder maps the resurgence of authoritarianism from post‑Cold‑War Russia to global populist movements, arguing that democratic values are under threat and must be defended through renewed political virtues.

Andrea Gabor’s *The Capitalist Philosophers* explores how American business was shaped by pioneering thinkers such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and other industrial managers, sociologists and psychologists, whose ideas built the modern corporate world.

Examines how Paul Volcker's Federal Reserve altered America's economy during the 1980s.

Al Gore explores the drivers of global change—technology, economics, politics—illustrating how we are all moving toward a more interconnected, border‑less world.

Phelps explores what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before?

After a decade of rapid growth, the world's most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down. Other major players including Brazil, Russia, and India face their own daunting challenges and inflated expectations. The new "breakout nations" will probably spring from the margins, even from the shadows. Ruchir Sharma, one of the world’s largest investors in emerging markets for Morgan Stanley, here identifies which are most likely to leap ahead and why. After two decades spent traveling the globe tracking the progress of developing countries, Sharma has produced a book full of surprises: why the overpriced cocktails in Rio are a sign of revival in Detroit; how the threat of the "population bomb" came to be seen as a competitive advantage; how an industrial revolution in Asia is redefining what manufacturing can do for a modern economy; and how the coming shakeout in the big emerging markets could shift the spotlight back to the West, especially American technology and German manufacturing. What emerges is a clear picture of the shifting balance of global economic power and how it plays out for emerging nations and for the West. In a captivating exploration studded with vignettes, Sharma reveals his rules on how to spot economic success stories. Breakout Nations is a rollicking education for anyone looking to understand where the future will happen. - Publisher.

Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today is a book by John Holloway that looks at the understanding of power as the central focal point of how to effect meaningful change. Holloway uses two definitions of power, 'power-over' and 'power-to' in order to understand the difference between power from authority, power over someone else, and the power to do something, the capacity for action. Holloway argues we should never simply assume the legitimacy of anything with 'power-over' someone else and goes as far as saying this is true for the state - we should not 'fetishise' the state to the extent of simply assuming its role, responsibilities, and authority.

Jagdish Bhagwati challenges the critics of globalization, revealing its benefits and explaining why its gotcha examples are often not as they seem.

Explores the relation between economic development and collective action, hypothesizing that small collectives are dynamic and flexible enough to quickly react to changes, encouraging economic development, while large collectives are slow and inflexible when faced with change, leading to economic decline.

An analytical look at the causes and fallout of the U.S. housing crisis, examining mortgage finance, global securitization, and political accountability, and exploring lessons for the ongoing economic disaster.

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam power and international peace lowered the costs of moving goods across borders. This triggered a self-fueling cycle of industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today's rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has made it practical for multinational firms to move labor-intensive work to developing nations. But to keep the whole manufacturing process in sync, the firms also shipped their marketing, managerial, and technical know-how abroad along with the offshored jobs. The new possibility of combining high tech with low wages propelled the rapid industrialization of a handful of developing nations, the simultaneous deindustrialization of developed nations, and a commodity super-cycle that is only now petering out. The result is today's Great Convergence. Because globalization is now driven by fast-paced technological change and the fragmentation of production, its impact is more sudden, more selective, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable. As The Great Convergence shows, the new globalization presents rich and developing nations alike with unprecedented policy challenges in their efforts to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion.--

"Before the current international economic crisis, Asian policymakers deferred to their Western counterparts. The enormous blunders since committed by the US and Europe mean deference has been replaced by disquiet. Asia's concern is that the world will soon come to grief if both the US and Europe fail to make fundamental readjustments. An America and EU that takes serious economic measures will cause the rest of the world pain, as Western consumption and imports diminish. But there is no painless solution: only when the West gets its house in order can Asia hope for a more sustainable future"--

TABLE OF CONTENTS: The instruments of exchange. Europe: the wheels of trade at the lowest level -- Europe: the wheels of trade at the highest level -- The world outside Europe -- Concluding hypotheses -- Markets and the economy. Merchants and trade circuits -- Trading profits, supply and demand -- Markets and their geography -- National economies and the balance of trade -- Locating the market -- Production : or capitalism away from home. Capital, capitalist, capitalism -- Land and money -- Capitalism and pre-industry -- Transport and capitalist enterprise -- A rather negative balance sheet -- Capitalism on home ground. Capitalist choices and strategies -- Individual firms and merchant companies -- Back to a threefold division -- Society : `A set of sets' -- Social hierarchies -- The all-pervasive state -- Civilizations do not always put up a fight -- Capitalism outside Europe -- By way of conclusion.