International Political Economy: The Business of War and Peace

A paradigm-shifting work that is a crucial read to anyone working in political economy. As a professor in a Humanities department, I was engaged more with this text than with any recent economic work.

Nolt presents politics and economics in its rawest form, that agued by Thucydides: "The powerful do what they will, the weak suffer what they must." Nolt returns the role of private power and business to economic and political thought. If you've ever wondered why the economic theories you learned in school or the so called "strategy of the firm" failed in predicting major economic, political, or business events, then you need to read this book.