Books
Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being – co-written with Dr. Lloyd Minor, Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine
Read about Discovering Precision Health
Growing Global: Lessons for the New Enterprise (editor)
Read about Growing Global
Re-Think: A Path to the Future – co-written with Sam Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM
Read excerpts of Re-Think
Articles
On the joys of summer league swimming
USA Today, June 3, 2021
On food stamps, food and beverage purchasing trends, and obesity
MedPage Today, May 11, 2021
On U.S. public health and an agenda to improve it through better nutrition
STAT, November 4, 2020
On Hyderabad’s emergence as a global technology hub
The International Economy, Spring 2020
On India’s economic reforms and the poverty reduction that followed
The International Economy, Winter 2020
Read at The International Economy website
A profile of Rip Esselstyn, plant-based diet advocate and former All-American swimmer
SwimSwam, Spring 2017
A profile of Eddie Reese, head swim coach at the University of Texas
SwimSwam, Fall 2016
On the U.S. Olympic swimming trials
SwimSwam, Summer 2016
A profile of Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky
SwimSwam, April 2016
Read at the SwimSwam websiteOn the 1987 market crash
The American, September/October 2007
Read at The American websiteGood Government: Obscure Government Actions That Have Benefited The U.S. Economy
The American, January/February 2007
Read at The American website
White Papers
Co-author, with Faryar Shirzad, of a Goldman Sachs white paper on the U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty
Columns
The Slaughter & Rees Report: a publication of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Book Reviews
The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man’s Fight to Capture Olympic Gold
The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2022
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
The Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2022
The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well
The Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2021
The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It
The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2021
Metabolical: The Lures and Lies Processed Food, Nutrition, and Medicine
The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2021
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit our Addictions
The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2021
Just Eat: One Reporter’s Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen That Works
The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2021
Splash: 10,000 Years of Swimming
SwimSwam, September 22, 2020
Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2020
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2020
Free Trade and Prosperity: How Openness Helps Developing Countries Grow Richer and Combat Poverty
The International Economy, Spring 2020
Immortality, Inc.: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever
The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2020
Read at The Wall Street Journal website
Free Enterprise: An American History
The Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2019
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteAdvice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2018
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteNorwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence
The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2018
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteWhy You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat SinfullyThe Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2017
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteMove Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2017
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteThe Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
The Wall Street Journal, February 28, 2017
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteProgress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard
The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2016
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteThe Golden Rules: 10 Steps to World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work
The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2016
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteThe Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2016
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteA Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
The Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2016
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteA Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness
The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2014
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteKnowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World
The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2014
Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2013
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteBreakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World’s Most Wicked Problems
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Economy
The Wall Street Journal, April 13, 2012
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteThe End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2010
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteToo Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System
The American, May 8, 2010
Read at The American websiteSuperfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends On It
The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2009
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteRivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
Finance & Development, December 2008
Read at the International Monetary Fund website (2nd article on page)The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2008
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteBottlemania: How Water Went On Sale & Why We Bought It
The Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2008
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteStarbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
The Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2007
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteThe Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2007
Read at The Wall Street Journal websiteCapital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance
The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2007
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2005
A History of the World in Six Glasses
The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2005
Public Speaking
Moderated a panel on Islamic Finance at the Milken Global Conference, April 27, 2015
Watch at the Milken Institute website
Tribute to fourth-grade teacher, August 2015