Narrative Economics:
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
In a world in which internet troll farms attempt to influence foreign elections, can we afford to ignore the power of viral stories to affect economies? In this groundbreaking book, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times best-selling author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect individual and collective economic behavior - what he calls "narrative economics" - has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises, recessions, depressions, and other major economic events.
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Gaming Trade:
Win‑Win Strategies for the Digital Era
Reviewer: Ian Bright
Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally. While trade still plays a fundamental role in achieving economic targets and promoting growth, it is also, in the modern era, an instrument of state strategy in the contest for international influence and power.
More: the 10,000 Year Rise of the World Economy
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is now Turkey to the Iran-Iraq border 7000 years before Christ, and ending with the Sino-American trade war that we are in right now.
Not Working:
Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone?
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner
Don't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine—it isn't. Not Working is about those who can’t find full-time work at a decent wage—the underemployed—and how their plight is contributing to widespread despair, a worsening drug epidemic, and the unchecked rise of right-wing populism.
Beyond Brexit: A Programme for UK Reform
Reviewer: Neville R Norman, University of Melbourne
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research asked Llewellyn Consulting and Gatehouse Advisory Partners to commission a special collection of papers on the problems faced by Britain that go beyond Brexit per se for the 250th issue of its quarterly Review. The papers under the auspices of the newly established Policy Reform Group provide an agenda for the reform of the British political, economic and administrative landscape that will help secure a more robust future for the peoples of these islands.
Productivity and Bonus Culture
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker
Living standards in the UK and US are in danger of falling. A decline in growth due to poor productivity and an unfavourable change in demography has weakened the stand of liberal democracy, and voter dissatisfaction is encouraging populist policies that threaten even worse outcomes. Whilst living standards once grew faster than productivity they now grow more slowly, and the working population is no longer growing faster than the population as a whole. To avoid falling living standards the productivity problem must be addressed.
Forecasting: an essential introduction
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co
In this accessible and engaging guide, David Hendry, Michael Clements, and Jennifer Castle provide a concise and highly intuitive overview of the process and problems of forecasting.
Capitalism in America
Reviewer: Christine Shields
In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan, legendary Chair of the Federal Reserve, distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a profound assessment of the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale of vast landscapes, titanic figures and triumphant breakthroughs as well as terrible moral failings.
The AI Economy:
Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce, CEBR
Tackling the implications of Artificial Intelligence on growth, productivity, inflation and the distribution of wealth and power, THE AI ECONOMY also examines coming changes to the the way we educate, work and spend our leisure time.
Nine Crises:
50 years of covering the British economy - from devaluation to Brexit
Reviewer: Dr Rebecca Harding, CEO, Coriolis Technologies
Veteran financial journalist William Keegan has seen it all, from the 1967 devaluation to the three-day week, from Black Wednesday to the global financial crash of 2007 08. In a career that has seen him hop from Fleet Street to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street and back again, he has nurtured connections with Chancellors of the Exchequer, Governors of the Bank of England, influential economists and Fleet Street legends.