Macroeconomics for Public Policy - Term II – CORE Course (MEPP)

BOOK REVIEW ASSIGNMENT

 You will have to submit a book review summary and would be required to present to the class
on the same. Presentations should be in PowerPoint which will be shared with all class
participants.
 The book review should cover the following: provide a brief synopsis; say what the book has to
offer (strengths and weaknesses); and try to relate the book to topics covered in the course
material.
 The book MUST be cleared with faculty and class participants. Once you have taken a book, no
other participant can take it for this review assignment.
 The presentation should be of ~ 15 minutes.
 Electronic copies of the presentation, should be submitted to us 2 days in advance.

List of Books
1) Austerity by Yanis Varufakis
2) Talking to My Daughter About Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
3) The Economic Consequences of Peace by John Maynard Keynes
4) Development with Dignity by Amit Bhaduri
5) The Entrepreneurial State Debunking Public Vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
6) Demonetisation Decoded _ A Critique of India’s Currency Experiment by Prabhat Patnaik
7) VSI- John O. S. Wilson, John Goddard – Banking, OUP (2016)
8) The Hidden Wealth of Nations_ The Scourge of Tax Havens by Zucman-Fagan-Piketty
9) Dirty Secrets How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy by Richard Murphy
10) A World of Three Zeros_ The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net
Carbon Emissions by Mohammad Yunus
11) Bad Samaritans by Ha Joon Chang
12) Kicking Away the Ladder by Ha Joon Chang
13) Building Social Business by Mohammad Yunus
14) The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith
15) Narrative Economics_ How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events by Robert J. Shiller
16) Man’s Worldly Goods by Leo Huberman
17) The Face You are Afraid to See by Amit Bhaduri
18) How China Escaped Shock Therapy_ The Market Reform Debate by Isabella M. Weber
19) The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization by Richard C. Koo
20) Mission Economy A Moon-shot Guide to Changing Capitalism by By Mariana Mazzucato
21) And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
22) The Escape from Balance Sheet Recession and the QE Trap by Richard Koo
23) Fragile by Design_ The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris,
Stephen H. Haber