Quantitative Easing:
The Great Central Bank Experiment
Reviewer: Dean Turner
This book offers a thorough and perspicacious analysis of QE, which has become a recovery method of last resort. Whilst it was successful in averting another Great Depression and stimulating growth, it remains controversial and continues to promote widespread debate in economics, financial, and political-economy circles. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand central banking in the national economy.
Dynamism:
The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Economic Growth
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Economic Growth Partnership
Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, and Gylfi Zoega find evidence that differences in nations’ values matter—and quite a lot. It is no accident that the most innovative countries in the West were rich in values fueling dynamism. Nor is it an accident that economic dynamism in the United States, Britain, and France has suffered as state-centered and communitarian values have moved to the fore.
Boom and Bust:
A Global Financial History of Bubbles
Reviewer: Keith Wade, Schroders
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s.
What's Wrong With Economics?
A Primer for the Perplexed
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell, Senior Advisor, Volterra Partners
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time.
Money in the Great Recession:
Did a Crash in Money Growth Cause the Global Slump?
Reviewer: Christine Shields
No issue is more fundamental in contemporary macroeconomics than identifying the causes of the recent Great Recession. The standard view is that the banks were to blame because they took on too much risk, 'went bust' and had to be bailed out by governments.
An Economic History of the English Garden
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell, Senior Advisor, Volterra Partners
At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the place of gardens in the economic, as well as the horticultural, life of the nation. It is a new kind of gardening history.
China's Change:
The Greatest Show on Earth
Reviewer: Ian Harwood
As the Chinese economy has become an ever larger and more integral part of the global economy, so too has China-watching become an increasingly active pursuit.
Slowdown:
The End of the Great Acceleration‑and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce, Board Member, CEBR
The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown.
The Long Good Buy:
Analysing Cycles in Markets
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva
The Long Good Buy is an excellent introduction to understanding the cycles, trends and crises in financial markets over the past 100 years.
Productivity Perspectives
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Productivity Perspectives offers a timely and stimulating social science view on the productivity debate, drawing on the work of the ESRC funded Productivity Insights Network. The book examines the drivers and inhibitors of UK productivity growth in the light of international evidence, and the resulting dramatic slowdown and flatlining of productivity growth in the UK.