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Book reviews

Goodbye Globalisation

The Return of a Divided World

Reviewer: Vicky Pryce

In this groundbreaking account, Elisabeth Braw explores the collapse of globalisation and the profound challenges it will bring to the West.

Pursued Economy

Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies

Reviewer: Geoff Crocker, Author, Forthcoming "Rethinking Income and Money"

Richard C Koo dives deep into the failure of traditional economic solutions to address the economic and social problems of the post-Great Recession and post-pandemic economies.

Left Behind

A New Economics for Neglected Places

Reviewer: Anjalika Bardalai

The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperity.

The Tortuous Path of South Korean Economic Development

Reviewer: Andrew Peaple

This book explains how South Korea has uniquely transformed itself from a developing to a developed country by combining economic analysis with historical perspective, and approach badly needed but rarely taken by previous studies.

Edible Economics

The World in 17 Dishes

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chair, Saranac Partners Investment Committee

Economic thinking in its most digestible form

Vassal State

How America Runs Britain

Reviewer: Rosemary Connell

British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner - or its colony?

The Market Mind Hypothesis

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Investment Committee Chairman, Saranac Partners

In this pioneering book, Patrick Schotanus explains that economics’ mechanical worldview is the ontological error which leads to flawed thinking and faulty practices.

Pax Economica

Left‑Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace

An Economist Goes to the Game

Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field

Growth

A Reckoning

Reviewer: Kate Barker, Universities Superannuation Scheme

A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it

The Road to Freedom

Economics and the Good Society

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom

The Shortest History of Economics

Reviewer: Ian Harwood

The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitalism and the market system emerged.

Adam Smith's America

How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo, Macro Advisory Partners

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets.

This Time No Mistakes

How to Remake Britain

Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co / Cardiff Capital Region

Will Hutton's passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century - and how we can remake a better Britain

Breaking the Mold

India’s Untravelled Path to Prosperity

Reviewer: William A Allen, National Institute for Economic & Social Research

The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic.

The Chile Project

The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca

In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship.

The Bankers' New Clothes

What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It

Reviewer: Ian Bright

A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the Year

Meritocracy, Growth and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Reviewer: William A Allen, NIESR

This book draws lessons on the importance of meritocracy for economic growth by analysing Italy's economic decline in the past few decades.

Influence Empire

The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews and exclusive details - Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent created the golden era of Chinese technology, and delves into key battles involving Didi, Meituan and Alibaba. It's a chronicle of critical junctures and asks just what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in China.

Any Happy Returns

Structural Changes and Super Cycles in Markets

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chairman of the Investment Committee, Saranac Partners

In Any Happy Returns: Structural Changes and Super Cycles in Markets, celebrated author Peter C. Oppenheimer delivers his much-anticipated follow-up to The Long Good Buy.

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Articles reflect the authors’ views which are not necessarily shared by the Society or the Editor. The Editor welcomes comments, ideas and articles on a wide range of applied economics topics and related issues of more general interest.

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