It's a movie not a book, and needless to say not a completely accurate representation of the world of global ...   more »

John Kay's latest book The Long and the Short of It has been very favourably reviewed (including by my BBC ...   more »

He was spot on in his analysis of what foods people will buy when money is tight.   more »

This one from Keynes: "It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to profess ...   more »

Reading Paul Krugman's Conscience of a Liberal on the tube - yes, I know, two years late but he suffers ...   more »

Following my earlier post asking about books on India, today's FT has a review by James Lamont, the S Asia ...   more »

A terrific article in the New York Review of Books/Guardian Review by Robert Darnton about the Enlightenment ideal of the ...   more »

Earlier this week I met the author of The Romantic Economist, Richard Bronk, over lunch at the London School of ...   more »

A plug for my friend Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's new book, The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food, ...   more »

In honour of Darwin's 200th birthday yesterday, this week I've been reading Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish (out now in ...   more »

In the battle between meetings and reading, meetings are winning a temporary victory   more »

A very exciting arrival in the post today - 'Animal Spirits', the new book by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller. ...   more »

In 2006 I was a member of a Competition Commission inquiry which cleared the takeover of the UK bookstore chain ...   more »

There are various texts I read as a student 30 years ago (how can it be so long?) which I've ...   more »

I'm halfway through this new book by Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke and thoroughly appreciating it. I was planning to ...   more »

Steven Durlauf, one of the editors of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, was kind enough to talk to me ...   more »

In this New Year preview of the publishers' catalogues, it's the turn of the Oxford University Press's highlights. Writing about ...   more »

The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy has just been published, following closely on the heels of the second edition ...   more »

Routledge this time, and experimental economics and central banking catch my eye.   more »

We economists are romantic and poetic, as well as soulful. Well, maybe.    more »

Browsing through the catalogues reveals a fine crop of forthcoming titles pretty much across the board. At MIT Press, The ...   more »

The spring publishers' catalogues are arriving, so here's a preview of what new titles will be out during the next ...   more »

Off to Delhi tomorrow for a few days to launch a report on the impact of mobiles in India. As ...   more »

One of many fascinating aspects of the Credit Crunch is the way it puts the spotlight on money as a ...   more »

Two long train rides in a day (Trowbridge and back) gave me chance to finish reading Martin Wolf's new book ...   more »

Paul Collier's marvellous book about poverty and economic development is just out as an OUP paperback, I noticed in the ...   more »

Most Sundays I meet a couple of friends for a mini-philosophical salon (ok, a drink and chat), and last week ...   more »

Economics Gangsters by Ray Fisman and Ted Miguel is a terrific book mainly about why bad governments and corruption wreck economics - some great examples of applied economics in action. There's a review of it in the next edition of The Business Economist. Romesh tells me it's one of the books featured in the VoxEU podcast - they do books from time to time. If you're interested, here's the link:
http://www.voxeu.eu/index.php?q=node/1260

Part of my holiday reading was Trucking Country by Shane Hamilton, a new title from my own dear publisher Princeton ...   more »

My new blog about economics books will be starting shortly - watch this space!   more »