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.
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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.
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Extreme Economies:
Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World’s Limits
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker
In search of a fresh perspective on the modern economy, Extreme Economies takes the reader off the beaten path, introducing people living at the world’s margins. From disaster zones and displaced societies to failed states and hidden rainforest communities, the lives of people who inhabit these little-known places tend to be ignored by economists and policy makers. Leading economist Richard Davies argues that this is a mistake, and explains why the world’s overlooked extremes offer a glimpse of the forces that underlie human resilience, help markets to function and cause them to fail, and will come to shape our collective future.
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Women vs Capitalism:
Why We Can’t Have It All in a Free Market Economy
Reviewer: Ian Bright
The free market as we know it cannot produce gender equality. This is the bold but authoritative argument of Vicky Pryce, the government's former economics chief.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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A Good time to be a Girl:
A Guide to Thriving at Work and Living Well
Reviewer: Ian Bright, ING
From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it.
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Evolution or revolution:
Rethinking macroeconomic policy after the Great Recession
Speaker: James Smith, Resolution Foundation
Leading economists discuss post-financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of macroeconomic policy. Should the financial crisis and the Great Recession lead to yet another major reassessment, to another intellectual revolution? Will it? If so, what form should it, or will it, take? These are the questions taken up in this book, in a series of contributions by policymakers and academics.
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