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BLINDER Governing the World After the Music Stopped PAID Presort Std The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present U.S. Postage The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead Permit No. 169 NEW A history of the project of world government, from the first post-Napoleonic visions of Staten Island, NY One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the brotherhood of man to the current crisis of global finance. the crisis and its lessons. “A prodigious work: a master historian’s reconstruction of how individuals and nations “The best comprehensive history of the episode....A riveting tale.”—Financial Times since 1815 have sought to promote national interests in ever more complicated interna- TITLES “If you want to understand every aspect of our economic crisis—how we got into it, tional settings.”—Fritz Stern how we escaped a depression, why we haven’t fully recovered, and what we have to do PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 496 PP. • 978-0-14-312394-1 • $18.00 now—read this book. It’s a masterpiece—simple, straightforward and wise.”—President A Financial Times Best Book IN William J. Clinton PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 496 PP. • 978-0-14-312448-1 • $17.00 CHRYSTIA FREELAND NEIL IRWIN Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire An acclaimed business journalist presents a groundbreaking examination of wealth dis- ECONOMIC The Washington Post’s lead economics correspondent and Federal Reserve reporter parity, income inequality, and the new global elite. draws on extraordinary access to tell the story of the global financial crisis from the “Provides us with a glimpse of the lives of America's elites and a disquieting look at the USA perspective of the world’s four most powerful central bankers. society that produces them.”—Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University “A must read for anyone who wants to understand the global reach of the financial crisis “[Freeland] explains why the elites’ dominance, even when it appears benign, is a chal- through which we are still living. The international perspective brings a fascinating and lenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it.”—Daron wholly new dimension to the story, one that has until now not been adequately told.”— Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 352 PP. • 978-0-14-312406-1 • $17.00 HISTORY PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PP. • 978-0-14-312499-3 • $18.00 PENGUIN GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, JOHN MICKLETHWAIT ERNEST FREEBERG and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE The Age of Edison The Fourth Revolution Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America 2014 A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The Global Race to Reinvent the State “A vivid social history with parallels for today's technology innovators and for those who A visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the wish to increase their number. It underscores the point that the work of Edison and other fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Micklethwait and Wooldridge pioneers of light took place in an unusual setting, a period in which American invention argue that there have been three great revolutions in government in the history of the was remarkably active and fertile.”—The Wall Street Journal modern world. The West has led these revolutions, but now we are in the midst of a PENGUIN GROUP USA PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 368 PP. • 978-0-14-312444-3 • $17.00 fourth revolution, and it is Western government that is in danger of being left behind. 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