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.
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
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