By PETER CONTI-BROWN

Review of Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation is Reshaping Our World—For the Better, by Andrew Palmer

By SRIRAM SRIKUMAR

Review of The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

By KRZYSZTOF J. PELC

Review of EMPIRE OF COTTON: A Global History, by Sven Beckert