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 »

There is a discount for another day on the titles listed here.
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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 »