Recommended Periodicals:

1. The Economist
2. Foreign Affairs
3. The Wall Street Journal
4. The New York Times

Recommended Books:

Finance and Investing:

1. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change”, by Mohammed el-Erian. Published by McGraw-Hill (buy)
2. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Aliber, and Robert. Published by Wiley (buy)
3. Chindia Rising”, by Jagdish Sheth. Published by McGraw-Hill. (buy)
4. "Animal Spirits" by Akerlof & Shiller. Published by Princeton University Press
5. "Drunkards Walk" by Mlodinow. Published by  Pantheon Books.

Global Economic and Human Development

1. The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, by William Easterly. Published by Penguin. (buy)
2. Reinventing Foreign Aid”, by Nancy Birdsall and William Easterly. Published by The MIT Press. (buy)
3. Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy is Making Where To Live The Most Important Decision of Your Life”, by Richard Florida. Published by Basic Books. (buy)
4. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World”, by Tracy Kidder. Published by Random House. (buy)
5. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, by Paul Collier. Published by Oxford University Press (buy)
6. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression", by Amity Shlaes. Published by Harper Collins (buy)
7. False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World”, by Alan Beattie. Published by Penguin Canada. (buy)
8. "Development as Freedom", by Amartya Sen. Published by Alfred A. Knopf

Leadership

1. If not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America’s Time of Need", by Colonel Jack Jacobs, Medal of Honor recipient, published by The Berkley Publishing Group of the Penguin Group. (buy)
2. The Ten Commandments for Business Failure", by Donald R. Keough. Published by Portfolio Hardcover (buy)

    

3. Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership”, by Howard Gardner. Published by Basic Book, paperback. (buy)
4. Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahadev H. Desai, and Sissela Bok. Published by Beacon Press. (buy)
5. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink. Published by Riverhead Trade. (buy)
6. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, by John Medina. Published by Pear Press. (buy)

International Relations

1. Post American World”, by Fareed Zakaria. Published by W.W. Norton. (buy)
2. The Return of History and the End of Dreams”, by Robert Kagan. {Published by Vintage (buy)
3. "Imagining India" by Nandan Nilekani