Recommended Readings

This book provides readers with a very instructive read around the limits of growth. The two authors, both economics, challenge the traditional assumption around the need for growth in economics. They deal with the very relevant question how much growth is enough and what alternatives are there to traditional economic approaches.

This best selling book authored by the renowned economists Acemoglu and Robinson is a most read for better understanding why some nations succeed and other fail. Based on very instructive case studies (qualitative methods in economics – finally!) they argue that particularly the functioning of institutions is indispensable for the success of states. It thereby connects arguments from economics with institutionalism and organization studies to shed a different light on the emergence of states.

A very nicely written novel about the effect of globalization on individual life’s. Alan, an old economy fossil is send to Saudi Arabia to install a new IT-system. Endless delays, a king who never shows up and the unbearable heat in the desert provide a fantastic setting for studying the effect of modern economics and the way we create “value”.