The time has clearly come for those of us who've not yet done so to blow the dust off our ...   more »

I've spent the day and much of the evening reading through the draft of a little book I'm co-authoring with ...   more »

Recently I re-read a couple of Daniel Bell books - just finished a volume he edited with Irving Kristol called ...   more »

Since my first post on Open Book Publishers, a new Cambridge-base academic press, I've had chance to speak to ...   more »

This weekend I finished the intriguing The Grid Book by Hannah Higgins. This Univ of Illinois at Chicago art historian ...   more »

I was interested in this article on the health or otherwise of the publishing of serious non-fiction, in this weekend's ...   more »

The always-excellent Boston Review has a great article on the economics of healthcare by Dean Baker. It's essentially about the ...   more »

Thanks to a tip-off from Twitter, I've become aware of this interesting new publishing initiative, Open Book Publishers, based ...   more »

Last week I went to the launch of a new Demos publication, The Liberal Republic, by Philip Collins and ...   more »

One of my all-time favourite books on the implications of the new technologies for business is Carl Shapiro and Hal ...   more »

Divine Magnetic Lands by Tim O'Grady was my holiday reading over the long weekend, picked up at random from the ...   more »

Will Hutton has reviewed a batch of books on the Crash in today's Guardian. Unsurprisingly, he finds they add up ...   more »

Profile Books has reissued an updated batch of its Economist A-Z Guides series, written by journalists on the eminent magazine. ...   more »