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Book reviews

On Natural Capital – The Value of the World Around Us

Author: Partha Dasgupta
Reviewer: Kate Barker, Universities Superannuation Scheme

Mismanaged Decline

What Politicians Won’t Tell You About the Economy

Author: Vicky Pryce and Andy Ross
Reviewer: Andrew Smith

Eclipsing the West, China, India and the Forging of a New World

Author: Vince Cable
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce

Two Paths to Prosperity

Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Author: Avner Greif, Guido Tabellini, and Joel Mokyr
Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo

The Growth Story of the 21st Century

the Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action

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

The Rage of Party

How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain

Author: George Owers
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

The Banker Who Made America

Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731‑1821

Author: Richard Vague
Reviewer: Max Magnacca

False Dawn

The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery 1933‑1947

Author: George Selgin
Reviewer: Ian Harwood

Money and Inflation at the Time of Covid

Author: Tim Congdon
Reviewer: Felix Hathaway

Fixed

Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

Author: John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai
Reviewer: Ian Bright*

Capitalism

A Global History

Author: Sven Beckert
Reviewer: Arno Hantzsche

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

Author: Dani Rodrik
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva

Heterodox Economics

Author: Andrew Trigg
Reviewer: Geoff Crocker, Author, ‘Rethinking Income and Money’, (Palgrave 2025)

Chokepoints

How Economic Warfare is Changing the World

Author: Edward Fishman
Reviewer: William A. Allen, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Capitalism and its Critics

A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World

Author: John Cassidy
Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo

The Economics of Creative Destruction

New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

Author: Ufuk Akcigit and John Van Reenen
Reviewer: Neil Reeder, Head and Heart Economics

Multicurrency Mercantilism

The New International Monetary Order

Author: Kathleen Tyson
Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Author: Dan Wang
Reviewer: Joe Little

Central Banking and Monetary Policy Implementation, Volume I

Author: Sylvio Antonio Kappes, Louis-Philippe Rochon and Guillaume Vallet
Reviewer: William A. Allen, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Rethinking Income and Money

Incorporating Technology into Economic Theory

Author: Geoff Crocker
Reviewer: Gerry Holtham, Visiting Professor, Cardiff Metropolitan University

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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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