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Books by GIC Members & Friends

The Global Interdependence Center (GIC) boasts leaders in finance, monetary policy, business, health care and much more among its membership. GIC is privileged to have access to rich array of experience and knowledge and is proud to showcase the outstanding efforts of its membership.

Below, visitors will find a listing of some of the books—but by no means all—published by GIC members and friends. If you are a GIC member and would like to have your publication listed, please email [email protected].

  • The Central Bank as Crisis Manager

    Patrick Honohan

    The world’s central banks have confronted crisis after crisis in recent years—both before and since the global financial crisis. Yet many of these events seem to take central banks by surprise, obliging them to improvise. In this important study, Patrick Honohan, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, calls on central banks to make preparation for crisis management a core activity.

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  • Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

    Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak & Paul Swartz

    In this perspective-shifting book, BCG Chief Economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Senior Economist Paul Swartz provide a fresh and accessible way to assess macroeconomic risk.

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  • The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks

    David R. Kotok, Michael R. Englund, Tristan J. Erwin, and Elizabeth J. Sweet

    Over the century that intervened between the 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Federal Reserve has deepened its understanding of the economic shocks that pandemics deliver. In fact, epidemic and pandemic shocks appear to have had similar characteristics as far back as the historical record can offer us clues.

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  • The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China

    Jonathan D. T. Ward

    GIC Member and Speaker, Jonathan D. T. Ward, China scholar and founder of the Atlas Organization, offers a comprehensive framework for how the United States can, and must, defeat China on the world stage economically, diplomatically, militarily, and ideologically in The Decisive Decade : American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China.

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  • Development and Stabilization in Small Open Economies – Theories and Evidence from Caribbean Experience

    DeLisle Worrell

    GIC's College of Central Bankers Fellow, DeLisle Worrell's newest book analyses and explains the nature of the economies of small countries and territories. It includes an assessment of material prosperity in 41 small open economies worldwide, with case studies focusing on the Caribbean and Central America, and a review of the development of their economies in recent decades.

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  • Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies, Sixth Edition

    Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwartz

    GIC Speakers and Members, Jeremy Schwartz and Jeremy Siegel worked to write, Stocks for the Long Run, the definitive guide to stock trading, Stocks for the Long Run has been providing the knowledge, insights, and tools that traders need to beat the market for nearly 30 years.

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  • Garbage in the Garden State

    Jordan P. Howell

    Written by GIC speaker, Jordan P. Howell, Garbage in the Garden State is the only book to examine the history of waste management in New Jersey.

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  • Tunisia’s Economic Development: Why Better than Most of the Middle East but Not East Asia

    Mustapha K. Nabli, Jeffrey B. Nugent

    This book identifies the differences in growth and development, and the various factors lying behind them, across both Middle East and North African (MENA) and East Asian countries over the 1960‒2020 period.

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  • Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis

    Masaaki Shirakawa

    GIC College of Central Bankers Fellow, Masaaki Shirakawa, authored "Tumultuous Times: Central Banking in an Era of Crisis," published in 2021.

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  • Life Is a Startup: What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change

    Noam Wasserman

    GIC Speaker, Noam Wasserman, the Dean of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business, wrote Life Is a Startup: What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change.

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