I noticed from an Economic Principals blog post that the FT's Gillian Tett now has the title and cover design ...   more »

“The Snowball --  Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder. (Bloomsbury 2008)

By Nick Clack 

We live ...   more »

Plenty of new books of interest in the OUP's spring catalogue, which reached me today (including notice of a sale ...   more »

In 1919 in  The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes pointed out the danger of inflation: "There is no ...   more »

Looking up something on Roger Farmer's website (at the prompting of Timothy Taylor of the JEP) , I found a ...   more »

The Dead Aid argument (the title of Dambisa Moyo's book, see earlier post) is catching on. According to a ...   more »

John Calverley's new book When Bubbles Burst is highly recommended by Geoff Riley - it's in my pile for allocating ...   more »

It's Our Turn To Eat by Michaela Wrong, about the Kenyan whistleblower John Githingo has been getting consistently good reviews, ...   more »

Intrigued by this headline? Read this entry by Richard Baggaley on the Princeton University Press blog about a book he ...   more »

This series, published by MIT Press, came to my attention because of two recent titles on development economics, Edward ...   more »

Richard Bronk, author of ‘The Romantic Economist’, welcomes the publication of Akerlof and Shiller's ‘Animal Spirits’ as a well-written and rigorously argued blow to the narrow motivational assumptions in standard economics. He argues, however, that Akerlof and Shiller could benefit both from absorbing lessons of Romanticism about the role of imagination . Bronk also questions classifying a sense of fairness as ‘animal spirits’ in the first place.   more »

This is the title of a terrific new book in MIT Press's Boston Review series, whose format is an opinionated ...   more »

Last Night's Comic Relief programme, with its wrenching films about suffering children, put me in sombre frame of mind, despite ...   more »

Time for a catch-up on some publishers' catalogues sent recently: Norton, Palgrave Macmillan and Edward Elgar.

From Norton's 2009 ...   more »

"These heroes of finance,” Henrik Ibsen wrote, “are like beads on a string - when one slips off, all the ...   more »

The Services Shift by Robert E Kennedy (with Ajay Sharma) reached me a little while ago and now I've read ...   more »

Is it worth reading more on the pscyhology of well-being? In preparation for my next book, I've been reading around ...   more »

The spotlight on bankers' bonuses in the past couple of weeks has reminded me to say how much I enjoyed ...   more »

Tim's terrific book The Logic of Life is just out in paperback. It was reading the hardback, as a follow-up ...   more »

In my recent conversation with John Kay, we spent some time discussing the merits of self-publishing. The Long and the ...   more »

An interview with the author of this new polemic against official aid had made me look forward to reading it. ...   more »