The perfect seasonal present for economists arrived in today's post - Joel Waldfogel's Scroogenomics. It sets out the economic ...   more »

The full title of Tyler Cowen's latest book is Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered ...   more »

Reviews in the Observer and Sunday Telegraph today - neither one nearly as positive as last week's by Tim Harford. ...   more »

Streetlights and Shadows by Gary Klein, a senior scientist at Applied Research Associates, is a highly satisfying book (and ...   more »

There are definitely a few titles in the Cambridge University Press catalogue that look enticing. I'm excited about catching up ...   more »

There is now definitely a welcome fashion for short, polemical and accessible books. The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending ...   more »

Like me, any reader of this blog will be a lover of economics, ideas more generally, and books in particular. ...   more »

There are two new books out that I will definitely want to read.

One is Superfreakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. ...   more »

As someone who has always been a big fan of Erik Brynjolfsson's careful work assessing how it is exactly that ...   more »

I've been enjoying - spread over a couple of weeks as it's a longish book - this 2007 biography of ...   more »

UK literary agents have filed an objection to the deal, joining other international critics including the French and German governments, ...   more »

My former colleague from the BBC Trust, Michael Hedley, has written an interesting review of Honest Signals by Alex (Sandy) ...   more »

Sport is just one big puzzle to me. Why does anybody find it interesting? The economics of sport is another ...   more »

September has rushed past in a blur but in spare moments I’ve been gripped by The Public Domain by James ...   more »