2025 Summer Vacation Recommended Reading

The Center for Free Enterprise has selected 25 recommended books for the 2025 summer vacation season.

Liberalism & Market Economy

Anatomy of Anti-Liberalism — Min Gyeong-guk / Book Korea / May 10, 2025 / ₩25,000
When Law Meets Economics — Kim Jeong-ho / Center for Free Enterprise / Jul 7, 2025 / ₩15,000
Market Economy and Consumer Policy — Lee Jong-in & Kang Su-hyeon / Bakyoungsa / Feb 28, 2025 / ₩37,000
On Liberty — John Stuart Mill (trans. Kim Man-gwon) / Chaeksesang / Mar 10, 2025 / ₩9,900
An Intellectual History of Liberalism: The Decisive Moments That Shaped Modern Freedom — Pierre Manent (trans. Song Ji-min) / Hanul / Nov 22, 2024 / ₩29,000

Entrepreneurship

VALUE UP: Practical Strategies for Maximizing Corporate Value — Shin Hyun-han / Bakyoungsa / Mar 1, 2025 / ₩28,000
20 Faces of the Entrepreneur and an Entrepreneurship Diagnosis — Lee Chun-woo / Dasan Publishing / Mar 5, 2025 / ₩32,000
Entrepreneurship — Hwang In-hak et al. (8 co-authors) / Hyeonamsa / Apr 19, 2025 / ₩20,000
The Black Box of Entrepreneurship — Kim Yong-yeol / Purple / Nov 20, 2024 / ₩18,000
The Power of the Silicon Valley Process — Shin Jae-eun / The Quest / Feb 26, 2025 / ₩21,000
People Who Break the Mold — Sally Percy (trans. Jeong Yun-mi) / Window on the Future / Apr 7, 2025 / ₩18,000

General Economics & Economic History

A Historical Understanding of Economy, Trade, and Currency — Na Hui-ryang / Bakyoungsa / Feb 28, 2025 / ₩26,000
How Nations Escape Poverty — Rainer Zitelmann (trans. Hwang Su-yeon) / Liberty / Feb 28, 2025 / ₩20,000
The Economics Class You've Been Waiting For — Alfred Mill & Michele Cagan (trans. Kim Seon-yeong) / Hyundai Jisung / Mar 28, 2025 / ₩18,800
The Reality of Colonial Modernization — Jeon Yong-deok / Seoul National University Press / Apr 15, 2025 / ₩36,000
Power on the Table: The Economics of Gastronomy — Su Qin (trans. Kim Ga-gyeong) / Eden Library / Jun 10, 2025 / ₩18,800
Economic History in One Frame — Yoon Sang-seok (illus. Park Jeong-seok, supervised by Song Byeong-geon) / Pulbit / May 9, 2025 / ₩15,000

Politics & Democracy

Democracy, Nevertheless — Kim Young-pyeong et al. (8 co-authors) / Gagyanal / Apr 15, 2025 / ₩18,500
The Architect of America: James Madison (3-volume set) — Noah Feldman (trans. Oh Hyeon-a) / Soyo Seoga / May 8, 2025 / ₩87,000
Nvidia's Jensen Huang: The Thinking Machine — Stephen Witt (trans. Baek Woo-jin) / RH Korea / May 25, 2025 / ₩28,000
The Fourth Symbiosis — Bok Geo-il / Mubl Publishing / Jan 2, 2025 / ₩18,500

International Politics & Economics

2030 South Korea: A Great Power Scenario — Lee Geun / 21st Century Books / Apr 30, 2025 / ₩24,000
The Trump We Misunderstood — Park Daniel / Grace and Truth / Jun 10, 2025 / ₩17,000
War and International Politics — Lee Chun-geun / Book & People / Nov 15, 2024 / ₩23,000
The Second Cold War — Jason Schenker (trans. Kim Mun-ju) / The Page / May 7, 2025 / ₩17,800