In these difficult economic times, book launches have been thinner on the ground than was the case during the boom, ...   more »

I'm not sure what to make of Vlatko Vedral's Decoding Reality: the universe as quantum information. This problem is ...   more »

The Understanding Society blog has an interesting post on the influence of Marx on Rawls. It isn't a connection I'd ...   more »

Castles Battles and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer and Huburt van Tuyll
A guest review by ...   more »

The former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was for many years revered for his management of US monetary policy, which covered ...   more »

Not only has it been a mad busy week, but I've also been reading a non-economics book (Iain Sinclair's Hackney, ...   more »

This book about entrepreneurship by Josh Lerner has an enticing title, Boulevard of Broken Dreams. (I gather it's also ...   more »

According to today's newspaper, a new film about John Ruskin is due to go into production. The movie will naturally ...   more »

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff is essentially a book about ...   more »