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With summer in full swing, we asked our journalists, editors and columnist to share their favourite non-fiction books they read this year. If you're still looking for something to read, read on.

A surge in trade by Russia’s neighbors and allies hints at one reason its economy remains so resilient after sweeping sanctions.

To mitigate austerity and resolve debt, Puerto Rico should follow in El Salvador’s footsteps and make bitcoin legal tender.

Trade Wars Are Class Wars wins $15K Lionel Gelber Prize for books on global affairs Author Matthew C. Klein is shown in a handout photo. A book tracing the origins of todays trade wars has won the Lionel Gelber Prize. Jurors awarded the $15,000 honour on Tuesday to "Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace." THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Matthew C. Klein MANDATORY CREDIT April 20, 2021 - 10:12 AM A boo...

This years winning title was written by Barrons economics commentator Matthew C. Klein and Peking University finance professor Michael Pettis. The authors argue that modern trade conflicts are often the product of decades of domestic policies that have exacerbated economic inequality. Jury chair Janice Gross says in a statement that the book serves as a warning that the imbalances of the global economy are unsustainable. Presented by the University of Torontos Munk School of Global Affairs and ...

Winnipeg Free Press By: The Canadian Press A book tracing the origins of todays trade wars has won the Lionel Gelber Prize. A book tracing the origins of todays trade wars has won the Lionel Gelber Prize. Jurors awarded the $15,000 honour on Tuesday to "Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace." Author Matthew C. Klein is shown in a handout photo. A book tracing the orig...

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp. A few years before the global financial crisis of 2008, future Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke popularized the notion that the world was divided into trade surplus countries like China and trade deficit countries like the United States. Echoing John Maynard Keynes’s trade destabilization theory, Bern...

The Best Political Economy Books of 2020 Writer and editor, ProMarket. As a journalist, he has mostly covered issues related to the intersection between politics and the economy, such as antitrust, corruption, lobbying and social movements. Prior to joining the Stigler center, he worked for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz-TheMarker, where he was a senior features writer and still writes as a political columnist. He is the author of Rothschild: The Story of a Protest Movement (2012, Hakibbutz Hame...