Lists of Bests: Sarvadamana's "Books to understand the modern world"

Send to Printer Sarvadamana's "Books to understand the modern world" This is a list of the books I found most useful in understanding contemporary subjects in politics and economy. A brief abstract for most can be found under http://winter.sg.
	1.		In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
	2.		Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition by Jared Diamond
	3.		Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
	4.		Why Globalization Works (Yale Nota Bene) by Martin Wolf
	5.		The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
	6.		State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama
	7.		The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) by John Roberts
	8.		Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
	9.		The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford
	10.		The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
	11.	?	Sicherung von Property Rights by Sven C. Hallscheidt
	12.		From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
	13.		Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
	14.		In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword by Jagdish Bhagwati
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