Demographics Unravelled
How Demographics Affect and Influence Every Aspect of Economics, Finance and Policy
Reviewer: William A Allen, NIESR
In Demographics Unravelled, renowned Macro-Demographics expert Amlan Roy delivers an insightful and timely exploration of the impact that "people characteristics" have on national economies.

Power and Progress
Our Thousand Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi, British Business Bank
Power and Progress demonstrates that the path of technology was once - and can again be - brought under control.

The Power of Money
How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper
Reviewer: Ian Bright
In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts with the real economy.

The Great Crashes
Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, financial meltdowns have repeatedly sent shockwaves through our world. From the currency crises of the 1980s and 1990s, to Japan's housing crash, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis and the COVID pandemic, The Great Crashes tells the stories of ten of these historic events.

Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere
Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and Culkin suggest alternative trade approaches to drive economic growth.

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Reviewer: Melissa Davies, Redburn
John Cochrane aims to make fiscal theory useful as a conceptual framework and modeling tool, and for analyzing history and policy.

The Tyranny of Nostalgia
Half a Century of British Economic Decline
Reviewer: Ian Harwood
This book describes and interprets the economic and political history of the past half a century, examining the challenges confronted by successive governments and their chancellors, the policies employed for good or ill, and – running through it all – the desperate search for a panacea that could arrest the nation’s relative decline and return the country to its supposed former glories.

The Money Revolution
How to Finance the Next American Century
Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca
In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to maximize the United States unmatched financial and technological potential.

Power and Influence of Economists
Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
Reviewer: Anjalika Bardalai
The contributors to this book explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from different disciplinary and national perspectives.

Leveraged
The new economics of debt and financial fragility
Reviewer: William A Allen, NIESR
An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

How to be a Successful Economist
Reviewer: Kate Barker, USS
Exploring the wealth of career opportunities open to those with an interest in economics, Pryce, Ross, Birdi, and Harwood reflect on how students can become successful economists.

Follow the Money
How much does Britain cost?
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
This is a forensic examination - by the man best placed to do so - of the way the state raises and spends £1 trillion of our money every year.
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The Illusion of Control
Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

We Need to Talk About Inflation
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers―and our abject failure to learn from history

Politicians and Economic Experts
The Limits of Technocracy
Reviewer: Neil Reeder, Director, Head and Heart Economics
Based on interviews with politicians and advisers from France, Germany, Denmark, the UK and USA, this book reveals why deferring to the experts is neither viable nor desirable, and how we have to trust politicians to take the lead role in solving economic problems.

The Gender of Capital
How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
Reviewer: Ian Bright
Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing how legal professionals―wittingly and unwittingly―help rich families and men maintain their privilege.

Megathreats
The ten trends that imperil our future, and how to survive them
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Econ Growth Partnership
World renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed Dr. Doom until his warnings of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Financial Crisis came true - when it was too late. Now he's back with much scarier predictions, ones that we ignore at our peril.

A Herstory of Economics
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists.

A World of Insecurity
Reviewer: Christine Shields, Shields Economics
An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism’s failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out.
