It's the season for them - the books business depends more heavily than most branches of the retail trade on ...   more »

The Great Trade Collapse is a new ebook published today by VoxEU/CEPR, ahead of Monday's ministerial meeting at the WTO. ...   more »

It's a temptation, having read so many reviews of Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, to reply to the ...   more »

The journal Strategy + Business has just published its annual round-up of the best business books of the year. With ...   more »

Michael Sandel came to popular attention in the UK, at least as far as Radio 4 counts as popular, as ...   more »

I'm a big fan of Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate is one of my all-time favourites. His New York Times ...   more »

Oh dear, I've still not got round to reading Superfreakonomics - this time it was Michael Sandel's Justice which diverted ...   more »

This is my current in-pile of books, a pretty random selection. What else should I be reading?


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Steven Johnson's new book The Invention of Air is on the face of it about Joseph Priestley's discovery of oxygen, ...   more »

A new review of Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: Return of the Master in the New York Times (plenty of other reviews ...   more »

It's five years since C.K.Pralahad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid was first published, and an updated anniversary ...   more »

As the paperback of Outliers has been on the bestseller list for ever, I'm probably the last person to read ...   more »

My interest in things related to mobile communication is boundless so I picked up Mobile Communication and Society by Manuell ...   more »

‘The Nature of Technology – What it is and how it evolves’ by W. Brian Arthur (Allen Lane)

By Richard ...   more »