Book Review: The Globalization Paradox

Ira Stoll submits: Nearly three years on, the "failure" of AIG (AIG) and its takeover by the government is both one of the most well known episodes of the financial crisis and one of the worse understood. Into that paradox steps Roddy Boyd, a former colleague of mine at the New York Sun, with a new book: "Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide."

The author is Dani Rodrik and the subtitle is Democracy and the Future of the World Economy and it is due out early next year.

Brenda Jubin submits: British financial journalists Julian Marr and Cherry Reynard take the reader around the world in 246 pages. Investing in Emerging Markets: The BRIC Economies and Beyond (Wiley, 2010) is an engaging book, well researched and well written. For Americans, it is also refreshing to have a British perspective because so much of the research on emerging markets is done in London.

Enzio von Pfeil, the author of Trade Myths: Globalization has left trade balances behind, is a Hong Kong-based investment advisor and he also manages his own family of funds using his

Rob Pegoraro isn't too impressed with Barnes and Noble's new e-bookstore. Not being an e-book reader, I don't have much to say on that.

David Merkel submits: Before I start this evening, I just want to say that as a day progresses, if I find a good topic, I prepare for it. If I don’t, I plan on doing a book review. As it is, I have 15 books that I have read and not reviewed. The majority of them are poor.