Jean-Baptiste Wautier and James K. Galbraith for PS Book Recommendations

Your weekly reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. The PS Book Recommendations newsletter. [View this message in a web browser.]( [PS Book Recommendations]( Welcome to PS Book Recommendations, your weekly source of reading inspiration, provided by PS contributors. This week’s edition features Jean-Baptiste Wautier, a lecturer at Sciences Po and a former chief investment officer at BC Partners, and James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. PS Contributors' Perspectives [The Profit Trap]( By Jean-Baptiste Wautier Capitalism has become a major source of global problems, when it should be delivering solutions. But as a powerful engine of prosperity that also lends itself to the defense of political liberty, the system is well worth saving – albeit in a revised form. and Crises: How to Fix Them]( By Colin Mayer "Mayer’s premise is that capitalism has become a major source of global problems, when it should be delivering solutions to already-existing challenges. He believes it can be made into a force for good, but only if we can develop a better understanding of business and the dynamics that drive it." – Wautier James K. Galbraith Recommends... [La De]( de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West)]( By Emmanuel Todd Galbraith says: “A best-seller in France, not yet available in English, on the errors and hubris that led Europe and the US into a renewed competition with an economically and militarily resurgent Russia, culminating in the disastrous war in Ukraine. This fair-minded work, written by an author who became famous for predicting the collapse of the Soviet Union almost 50 years ago, should be translated into English and made required reading in Washington and New York." Don’t miss our PS Say More interview with Galbraith on the US election, entropy economics, trade policy, and more. [Read now](. "Equilibrium," around which mainstream economics is built, and "entropy cannot coexist, and since entropy is a universal law of nature, we know which is a comforting fiction and which is real." – JKG Maigret]( By Georges Simenon Galbraith says: “A seemingly endless series of detective novels, which paint indelible portraits of a gray, rainy, vaguely interwar France and the psychology of its people. In Paris and the surrounding countryside, along rivers and canals, we find complex puzzles of crime and misfeasance to be unraveled by a stolid, pipe-smoking, utterly plain, entirely French commissioner of the police judiciare. Simenon was by all accounts a most unpleasant character, yet his novels are an antidote to the crass Parisian scenes of this summer. These are largely available in English, though I can’t vouch for the translations. It is worth learning French for the pleasure of reading in the original." [PS. Save 30% on a new Digital subscription with our special introductory offer.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter does not entitle the recipient to re-publish any of the content it contains. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.