I'm posting here much of the text of an email I received from Dr Gill Spraggs, who has been following ...   more »

Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw was one of my Christmas presents. It's a collection of his essays from The ...   more »

There's a terrific article by Lawrence Lessig in The New Republic on the dire consequences of current copyright law. It ...   more »

Someone who runs a consultancy called Enlightenment Economics, specializing in the economics of new technologies, was bound to love this ...   more »

Not one, but two separate reviews in this morning's Financial Times. Samuel Brittan has written a long review of three ...   more »

Yes, it's taken me a long time to get round to it but I've at last read Clay Shirky's Here ...   more »

For those who've not yet come across Yoram Bauman, the Stand-Up Economist, you have a treat in store. Now ...   more »

Thomas Levenson's Newton and the Counterfeiter is the best kind of work for me, because it succeeds on two levels. ...   more »

Whether you agree with him or not, John Kay is always a thought-provoking columnist. On Google books, which he wrote ...   more »

A tweet from the esteemed Ken Banks (@kiwanja) made me send off for The Starfish and the Spider by Ori ...   more »

For all who missed it earlier, which included me, here's an excellent round-up of the best business books of last ...   more »

In a continuation of her service to authors of following the detail of the legal settlement, and letting the rest ...   more »

The superb economic historian Harold James has a column of this title in today's Financial Times, based on his most ...   more »

What better way to start the New Year than with a taster of a forthcoming book by Daron Acemoglu and ...   more »