The Voltage Effect
How to make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Reviewer: Ian Bright
Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? According to award-winning behavioural economist John List, the answer comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale?

The New Economics
A Manifesto
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Econ Growth Partnership
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own Reformation.

The Resilient Society
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
The Resilient Society, by Princeton University economist Markus Brunnermeier, describes how individuals, institutions, and nations can successfully navigate a dynamic, globalized economy filled with unknown risks.

Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
This collection of contributions from 12 authors covers financial crises in Western Europe and USA from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.

Supercharge Me
Net Zero Faster
Reviewer: Gregory Smith
Supercharge Me is grounded in relentless realism about how governments, businesses and individuals actually behave. It draws lessons from what has worked so far: positive incentives and smart regulations. Through a series of fast-paced dialogues, the authors introduce practical ideas for change that will embolden activists, reinvigorate the disheartened, and reframe the climate crisis as an opportunity.

Strategic Risk Management
Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, NED, Man Group plc
In Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk, Campbell R. Harvey, Sandy Rattray, and Otto Van Hemert deliver a reimagining of the risk management process.

Six Faces of Globalization
Who wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters
Reviewer: William A Allen, NIESR
An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together.

Time for Socialism
Dispatches from a World on Fire
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world.

The Asian Financial Crisis
Reviewer: Ian Harwood
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98 charts Russell Napier’s personal journey during that crisis as he wrote daily for institutional investors about an increasingly uncertain future. Relying on contemporaneous commentary, it charts the mistakes and successes of investors in the battle for investment survival in Asia from 1995–98.

Tumultuous Times
Central Banking in an Era of Crisis
Reviewer: Melissa Davies, Chief Economist, Redburn
Masaaki Shirakawa, who led the bank as governor from 2008 to 2013, provides a rare insider’s account of the workings of Japanese economic and monetary policy during this period and how it challenged mainstream economic thinking.

Nudge: The Final Edition
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser & Board Member, CEBR
Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens and consumers everywhere. Now, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have updated the book, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research.

If Then: How One Data Company Invented The Future
Reviewer: Robert Baker
Here Robert Baker reviews this book alongside "Kochland. The secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America", by Christopher Leonard, 2020, Simon & Schuster UK.

Kochland
The secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
Reviewer: Robert Baker
Here Robert Baker reviews this book "If Then: How One Data Company Invented The Future", by Jill Lepore.

The Future of Money
How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Reviewer: Carlo Cocuzzo, Digital Finance Specialist, Italy
Reviewer: Ian Bright, Consultant
We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and governments alike embrace the possibilities of new financial technologies. As Eswar Prasad explains, the world of finance is at the threshold of major disruption that will affect corporations, bankers, states, and indeed all of us.

Cogs and Monsters
what economics is, and what it should be
Reviewer: Matt Whittaker, CEO, Pro Bono Economics
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world’s crises, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate emergency.

The Spirit of Green
the economics of collisions and contagions in a crowded world
Reviewer: Keith Wade, Chief Economist, Schroders
The Spirit of Green by Nobel laureate William Nordhaus offers a primer on the economics of the environment and some key steps to limit global warming.

Adapting to Climate Change
Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Region Econ Growth Partnership
This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy.

The Magic Money Tree
and Other Economic Tales
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
Lorenzo Forni examines the tension between economics and politics and considers why so many mistakes in economic policy-making are made for political reasons.

Where Credit Is Due
How Africa’s Debt Can Be A Benefit, Not A Burden
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva
Gregory Smith guides us expertly through the travails and successes in forty years of Sub-Saharan Africa’s debt and warns that we may still see a rerun of the 1980s borrowing boom that ended in a two-decade-long debt crisis.
