June 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Harvard University economist Richard N. Cooper gives his picks in the area of international economics and finance.

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjorn Lomborg
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Read May/June 2002 review

Free Trade Today
Jagdish Bhagwati
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002
Read September/October 2002 review

A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
John Steele Gordon
New York: Walker, 2002
Read November/December 2002 review

Imagine There's No Country: Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in the Era of Globalization
Surjit S. Bhalla
Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2002
Read January/February 2003 review

Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment
Thomas R. Degregori
Washington: Cato Institute, 2002
Read March/April 2003 review

20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Bill Emmott
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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