Center for Free Enterprise — 2024 Recommended Book List

The Center for Free Enterprise has selected recommended books from among those published in 2024 that were recognized for their high value across categories such as economics & business, politics & society, and the humanities.

Seven Days in Moscow — Kang Pyeong-gi / Arbat / Sep 9, 2024 / ₩23,800

The Path of the Economy 2 — Kwon Nam-hun et al. (11 co-authors) / 21st Century Books / Jun 28, 2024 / ₩20,000

A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere — Jürgen Habermas (trans. Han Seung-wan) / Sechang Publishing / Feb 5, 2024 / ₩10,500

Pilgrimage of the Attention Seeker — Woo Won-jae / Yangmun / May 10, 2024 / ₩16,800

How States Think — John J. Mearsheimer & Sebastian Rosato (trans. Kwon Ji-hyeon) / Jul 10, 2024 / ₩24,000

The Sense of Style — Steven Pinker (trans. Kim Myeong-nam) / Sciencebooks / Jun 30, 2024 / ₩30,000

AI Super-Innovation Shaking Up the Corporate Landscape — Jang Woo-gyeong / Maeil Business Newspaper / Oct 31, 2024 / ₩20,000

My Midang Poems — Seo Jeong-ju et al. (30 co-authors) / Eunhaengnamu / Nov 4, 2024 / ₩18,000

My Los Angeles — Lee Geun-mi / Miraein / Oct 25, 2024 / ₩14,000

The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich A. Hayek (trans. Kim I-seok) / Center for Free Enterprise / Mar 1, 2024 / ₩26,000

Who Is a Great Leader? — Choi Gwang / Book & People / Nov 15, 2024 / ₩35,000

Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich — Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Art Carden (trans. Im Gyeong-eun) / Korea Economic Daily / Sep 20, 2024 / ₩22,000

Money Needs Studying Too! — Ahn Jae-wook (illus. Min Yu-gyeong) / Muffin Book / Jun 10, 2024 / ₩14,500

The Last Days of Mr. Circle — Hong Hun-pyo / Freedom Front / Dec 24, 2024 / ₩16,000

How Russia Became an Empire: The Reforms of Peter the Great (2 vols.) — Kang Pyeong-gi / Arbat / Apr 9, 2024 / ₩34,000

Why Did Locke Proclaim Individual Rights Before the King? — Eric Mack (trans. Kwon Hyeok-cheol) / Knowledge Powerhouse / Nov 1, 2024 / ₩12,000

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There — Cass Sunstein & Tali Sharot (trans. Lee Gyeong-sik) / Korea Economic Daily / Nov 20, 2024 / ₩22,000

The Art of the Mind — Anne-Hélène Clair & Vincent Tribou (trans. Gu Yeong-ok) / Imagination Square / Dec 17, 2024 / ₩21,000

How the Unconscious Designs You — David Eagleman (trans. Kim Seung-wook) / RH Korea / Nov 22, 2024 / ₩25,000

A History of Ignorance — Peter Burke (trans. Lee Jeong-min) / Korea Economic Daily / Sep 30, 2024 / ₩22,000

Conservatism — Edmund Fawcett (trans. Jang Gyeong-deok) / Geulhangari / Mar 15, 2024 / ₩42,000

The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt (trans. Lee Chung-ho) / Woongjin Knowledge House / Jul 31, 2024 / ₩24,800

Build: The Creative Process — Tony Fadell (trans. Eom Seong-su) / Business Books / Nov 12, 2024 / ₩25,000

A History of the Desert — Nam Jeong-wook / Giparang / Aug 26, 2024 / ₩16,500

Abolish the Inheritance Tax — Seo Chae-jong / Geultong / May 30, 2024 / ₩16,800

Seeing the World Rightly Through the Bible — Cho Pyeong-se / Holy One Korea / Dec 12, 2024 / ₩13,000

Divine Intervention — Song Eui-dal / Nanam / Aug 19, 2024 / ₩24,000

Some Things Just Happen — Brian Klaas (trans. Kim Mun-ju) / Woongjin Knowledge House / Sep 27, 2024 / ₩18,500

Underground Empire — Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman (trans. Park Hae-jin) / PADO Books / Nov 11, 2024 / ₩25,500

The Art Thief — Michael Finkel (trans. Yeom Ji-seon) / Power of Thought / Sep 20, 2024 / ₩17,800

Wayne Grudem's Politics According to the Bible (Vol. 1) — Wayne Grudem (trans. Cho Pyeong-se) / Covenant / Jan 31, 2024 / ₩45,000

Utopia Meme — Mo Gi-ryong / Happiness Well / Jun 19, 2024 / ₩18,000

How Demographics Will Change My Future — Cho Young-tae / Gimm-Young / Dec 27, 2024 / ₩13,500

For Those Who Find Capital Difficult — Choi Seung-no / Knowledge Powerhouse / Oct 10, 2024 / ₩12,000

The Road to Freedom — Min Gyeong-guk et al. (8 co-authors) / Book Korea / Jan 24, 2024 / ₩23,000

An Intellectual History of Liberalism: The Decisive Moments That Shaped Modern Freedom — Pierre Manent (trans. Song Ji-min) / Hanul / Nov 22, 2024 / ₩29,000

Financial Freedom — Rainer Zitelmann (trans. Hwang Su-yeon) / Liberty / Mar 29, 2024 / ₩20,000

War and International Politics — Lee Chun-geun / Book & People / Nov 15, 2024 / ₩23,000

No Democracy Without Political Parties — Gwak Jin-yeong et al. (6 co-authors) / 21st Century Books / Aug 28, 2024 / ₩20,000

The Fourth Turning — Neil Howe (trans. Park Yeo-jin) / Korea Economic Daily / Aug 30, 2024 / ₩43,000

The Fifth Republic — Kang Won-taek / History Space / May 18, 2024 / ₩32,000

A Name to Engrave in Bronze: Syngman Rhee — Bok Geo-il / Baeknyeon Dongan / Jul 11, 2024 / ₩15,000

How Japan Survives as a Super-Aged Society — Kim Woong-cheol / Maeil Business Newspaper / Feb 14, 2024 / ₩18,000

A History of the Steppe — Nam Jeong-wook / Giparang / Aug 26, 2024 / ₩16,500

Conflict — David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts (trans. Heo Seung-cheol & Song Seung-jong) / With Books / Nov 25, 2024 / ₩38,000

Technofeudalism — Yanis Varoufakis (trans. No Jeong-tae) / 21st Century Books / Sep 4, 2024 / ₩24,000

Trump 2.0: Another America — Maeil Business Global Economy Dept. / Maeil Business Newspaper / Nov 12, 2024 / ₩18,000

Why Did Trump Withdraw from the Climate Agreement? — Park Seok-sun / See the World Rightly / Dec 25, 2024 / ₩20,000

The Paradox Mindset — Wendy K. Smith & Marianne W. Lewis (trans. Eom Seong-su) / Imagination Square / Aug 21, 2024 / ₩22,000

General Whitcomb, Who Loved Korea More Than Koreans — Lee Geun-mi (trans. Moon Yeong-hwan, illus. Lee Jin-ju) / Forget-Me-Not / Aug 31, 2024 / ₩15,000