For all those with something to say about the need for better measurement to inform public policy, I bring you ...   more »

Recently it's books at the intersection of economics and political philosophy which have been on my reading list, as research ...   more »

As a little light relief from ethics, social justice, well-being etc, I just finished The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules ...   more »

Even before the Crash cast its shadow over the status of markets (at least of the unconstrained financial variety) as ...   more »

It's crunchtime (in the non-financial sense of the word) for me: the contract for my next book has been sent ...   more »

There is a new review in today's New York Times by Louis Uchitelle - the book, which is a great ...   more »

Ever since I started visiting Delhi for the mobiles in India report, I've been reading books on the Indian economy ...   more »

Grumpy Old Bankers has been published by the marvellous Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, with a hugely ...   more »

My old friend Nick Cohen (author of the excellent Waiting for the Etonians and What's Left and Observer columnist extraordinaire) ...   more »

Ivar Krueger, who he? That was my reaction to The Match King by Frank Partnoy, author of an entertaining book ...   more »

Time for a first round up of new and forthcoming titles. Unsurprisingly, the journalists and politicians have plenty of titles ...   more »

As it's a long holiday weekend here in the UK, I relaxed with a terrific mystery set in Victorian London, ...   more »

This new book by the origins of the Euro by one of its intellectual architects, the ECB board member and ...   more »

There is a positive review of Economics 2.0 by Norbert Haring and Olaf Storbeck  in Chris Dillow's always-interesting Stumbling and ...   more »

It's taken me a few weeks to work through Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke's Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion...   more »

The subtitle of Stephen Marglin's new book gives away the conclusion: The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like An Economist Undermines ...   more »

This thoughtful book by George Akerlof and Bob Shiller is reviewed at length in The New Republic by Richard Posner. ...   more »

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