Growth for Good
Reviewer: Ian Bright
From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.
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A Brief History of Equality
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Econ Growth Partnership
It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic.
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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.
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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.
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The Economic Integration of Europe
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
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The Economics of the Stock Market
Reviewer: Sunil Krishnan, Aviva Investors
The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. In The Economics of the Stock Market, Andrew Smithers proposes a model that is robust when tested, and by including
the impact of the stock market on the economy, overcomes both these defects.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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