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Recession
Thankfully, past periods of economic expansion have tended to be far longer than periods of economic contraction; indeed, the incidence of the latter has been relatively rare. Even so, when recession...
AI for Economists
I started reading this book just as the UK Government announced the setting up of an AI Economics Research centre chaired by Nobel Prize laureate Simon Johnson. So what is so special that merits a...
False Dawn
In the mono-causal world of popular mythology, the US stock market crash of October 1929 caused the subsequent economic and financial collapse while the New Deal, launched in the form of an epochal...
Can Europe Survive?
Many readers will be familiar with veteran journalist and commentator David Marsh’s superbly insightful Europe-focused previous publications. This latest oeuvre, the author tells us, “started...
A Modern Economic History of Japan
The modern economic history of Japan is an extraordinary tale. The country rose over the course of just a hundred and twenty odd years from outright backwardness to the elite tier of the most advanced economies.
King Dollar
An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy-and what that means for America and the World.
Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment
Offering fascination insights into one of the most unsuccessful episodes of British economic history, he also examines the legacy of monetarism for the economy today.
The Shortest History of Economics
The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitalism and the market system emerged.
Seven Crashes
The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into “good” crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and “bad” crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world.
The Economic Government of the World, 1933-2023
Martin Daunton examines the changing balance over ninety years between economic nationalism and globalization, explaining why one economic order breaks down and how another one is built, in a wide-ranging history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy.
The Tyranny of Nostalgia
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 World in 2050
What will the world look like in 2050? How will complex forces of change – demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance – affect our global society? And how, with so many unknowns, should we think about the future?
The Asian Financial Crisis
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.
Outside The Box
From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future.
China's Change:
As the Chinese economy has become an ever larger and more integral part of the global economy, so too has China-watching become an increasingly active pursuit.
Bloomberg by Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg rose from middle-class Medford, Massachusetts to become a pioneer of the computer age, mayor of New York, one of the world's most generous philanthropists, and one of America's most respected—and fearless—voices on gun violence, climate change, public health, and other issues. And it all happened after he got fired at the age of 39. This is his story, told in his own words and in his own candid style.
Crashed: how a Decade of Financial Crisis changed the World
Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States.
The Man Who Knew
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years.
Why Minsky Matters
Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919-96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. In Why Minsky Matters, L. Randall Wray shows that by understanding Minsky we will not only see the next crisis coming but we might be able to act quickly enough to prevent it.
The Courage to Act
In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no time to celebrate, however-the burst of the housing bubble in 2007 set off a domino effect that would bring the global financial system to the brink of meltdown. In The Courage to Act, Ben Bernanke pulls back the curtain on the tireless and ultimately successful efforts to prevent a mass economic failure.
Making Sense of Markets
In March 2012, the Financial Times carried a front page story headlined 'Years of struggle for a jinxed generation'. It stated that 'For the first time in half a century, young Britons embarking on their careers cannot expect to be any better off than their parents...' Before and since, there have been numerous analyses highlighting a gloomy future ahead, and with little qualification or equivocation. The prevailing consensus since 2007 has been that the economic world is in a dire state. But are things really as bad as all that, or is sloppy thinking and excessively negative sentiment masking a more positive outlook? Making Sense of Markets argues that received wisdom is still far too pessimistic, and that investment opportunities have been missed as a result.
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.
The Dollar Trap
Looks at how the American dollar came to be of central importance in the world economy, and why it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future, due to a firmly established, dollar-centric international finance system.
Safe as Houses?
Neil Monnery looks at house prices over the long term in several countries - including the UK, the US, France, Holland, Norway, Germany and Australia -- to find out what has happened to house prices and why.
A Call for Judgment
A Call for Judgment explains in a clear way how bad theories and mis-regulation have caused a dangerous divergence between the real economy and finance.
The Fearful Rise of Markets
In his book, The Fearful Rise of Markets, John Authers examines global bubbles and how they occur, offering ways to predict and even prevent them.
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Visit our Podcast page for the latest in the series of interviews
Although we are not able to hold physical meetings during the lockdown period, we have responded to the change in circumstances by producing a series of podcasts with leading economists. We hope that...
Chairman's Report 2015-16
I am pleased to report that 2015-16 has been a year of significant progress for the Society of Business Economists. The Society’s membership has recovered to levels last seen before the Global...
Improving the UK's Economic Statistics
In the wake of Sir Charles Bean’s “Independent Review of UK Economic Statistics”, published in March, the Office for National Statistics has recently launched a fresh and wide-ranging...
Economics Curriculum Reform in British Universities
Ever since the world was engulfed by the most severe financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression of the early 1930s interest in Economics has soared. People have been seeking to...