Book reviews
- Consuming Life. By Zygmunt Bauman. Polity, 2007, 160 pp.
- Consumed. How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. By Benjamin R Barber. W. W. Norton & Co, 2007, 406 pp.
- The Real Toy Story. Inside the Ruthless Battle for Britain’s Youngest Consumers By Eric Clark. Black Swan, 2007, 332 pp.
- Good capitalism, Bad capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. By William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Shramm. Yale University Press, 2007, 321 pp.
- Robert B. Reich , Supercapitalism. The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life. By Robert B. Reisch. Knopf, 2007, 272 pp.
- Weltkrieg um Wohlstand. Wie Macht und Reichtum neu verteilt werden ("War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity"). By Gabor Steingart. Piper, 2007, 397 pp.
- Die Sünde. Das Schöne Leben under seine Feinde. ("Sin. The Good Life and its Enemies") By Gerhard Schulze. Hanser, 2006, 288 pp.
- The Return of History and the End of Dreams. By Robert Kagan. Alfred A Knopf, 2008, 116 pp.
- The China Fantasy – Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China. By James Mann. Penguin, 2007, 141 pp.
- Wages of Destruction – The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. By Adam Tooze. Allen Lane, 2006, 800 pp.
- China – Fragile Superpower. Susan L Shirk. Oxford University Press, 2007, 320 pp.
- China’s New Confucianism. Daniel A Bell. Princeton University Press, 2008, 240 pp.
- Superclass – The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making. By David Rothkopf. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 376 pp.
- Richistan – A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich. By Robert Frank. Three Rivers Press, 2007, 277 pp.
- Falling Behind – How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. By Robert H Frank. University of California Press, 2007, 148 pp.