current political economy books

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Retired though I am, I'm teaching a graduate class for
Sociology at UCSC, called Political Economy for Sociologists,
next Fall.  Instead of the usual approach (Marx to Mattick and
Mandel; Sismondi to Sweezy; etc.), I want to use exclusively
books written in the past 10 years or so, that address "real
frogs in real gardens" (as an old novelist friend once said) --
I mean, the best works on trade and investment, productivity
and wages, concentration and centralization of capital, etc.,
the whole range of issues that currently bewitch and bewilder
politicians.  Radical accounts of same.  Any and all suggestions
will be most welcome.
Thank you,
Jim O'Connor