GDP: A brief but affectionate history
Reviewer: Bill Allen
Looks at the history of the complex Gross Domestic Product statistic, from its precursors to its use today, giving insight into what it measures, how it has changed, and what its strengths and weaknesses are.
The New Tycoons
Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry that Owns Everything
Reviewer: Nooman Haque
Taking readers behind the scenes of private equity firms and into the secret worlds of founders Henry Kravis, Steve Schwarzman and others, this revealing book examines one of the most important trillion-dollar corners of the global economy that has transformed the industry.
Affluence & Influence
Reviewer: David Fell, Director, Brook Lyndhurst
Given the manifest political, social and environmental difficulties with which the world is now grappling, in large part as a result of the failure of a very particular economic ideology, Robinson's entreaty is surely now more important than ever.
The Price of Inequality
Reviewer: Mark Cleary, Consultant Economist, Kinetic Economics
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark, or as Joseph Stiglitz puts it, America. Stiglitz tells us that 20% of Americans own 85% of America's wealth. This is, as he points out, not a happy state of affairs.
First Principles
Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity
Reviewer: Stephen Hannah, Lecturer in Economics, NYU in London
This is a pre-election, pro-Republican polemic with a glowing recommendation from Congressman Ryan. So you should not be surprised by the content and its tone. However, you may well be disappointed, even saddened, by the argument.
Lost Causes
The Retreat from Classical Liberalism
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker
Lost Causes is Professsor Lal's collected thoughts on the state of the United Kingdom today, taken from pamphlets compiled for various UK think tanks from the late 1980s.
Good Strategy; Bad Strategy
The Difference and why it Matters
Reviewer: Rebecca Harding
Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business today more muddled than 'strategy'. Richard Rumelt, described by McKinsey Quarterly as 'a giant in the field of strategy' and 'strategy's strategist', tackles this problem head-on in a jargon-free explanation of how to develop and take action on strategy, in business, politics and beyond
How Do We Fix This Mess?
The Economic Price of Having It All And The Route to Lasting Prosperity
Reviewer: Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics
In Robert Peston's book he explains in his characteristically straightforward way how the world got itself into the current economic mess - and how we might get out of it.
'How do we fix this mess? I don't know. But don't stop reading now. Perhaps if we have a clearer understanding of what went wrong, we'll have a better idea of what needs to be done. This book is a map of what needs to be fixed.'
New Ideas on Development After The Financial Crisis
Reviewer: Mark Henstridge, Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management
Editors Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama bring together leading scholars to explore the implications of the global financial crisis on existing and future development strategies.
Whats the Use of Economics?
Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis
Reviewer: Peter Sinclair, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham
With the financial crisis continuing after five years, people are questioning why economics failed either to send an adequate early warning ahead of the crisis or to resolve it quickly. The gap between important real-world problems and the workhorse mathematical model-based economics being taught to students has become a chasm. This book examines what economists need to bring to their jobs, and the way in which education in universities could be improved to fit graduates better for the real world.