I read Beyond Business, the autobiography by the former CEO of BP, alongside the frank diaries of the Labour ...   more »

Earlier this week I heard John Makinson, the Chief Executive of Penguin, speak on the future of publishing at ...   more »

The weekend review sections have brought more on the books in general and the Google Books Settlement in particular.

In ...   more »

The 1920s and 1930s seem by far the most appropriate period in history to offer lessons about the state of ...   more »

It's traditional to be gloomy about book retailing, and the closure of Borders in the UK recently, another casualty of ...   more »

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: ...   more »

The combination of a recent birthday, half term holidays and a chunky book (Liaquat Ahmed's Lords of Finance) on ...   more »

Time for a bit of self-promotion (not to mention my distinguished co-authors). Our report on competition in European banking, post-bailouts, ...   more »

The campaign by a group of UK authors against the Google Books Settlement is moving into top gear and has ...   more »

On my shelves is a little book called Derivatives in Plain Words, published in 1997 by the Hong Kong ...   more »

The list of authors who opted out of the Google Books Settlement has been published, as Annex C of this ...   more »

The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris was favourably reviewed in the New York Times. I haven't read it but ...   more »

Interested in the use of public value as a process for getting better outcomes in public services? My book Public ...   more »

The novelist John Lanchester has written one of the best books I've read on the financial crisis (although I haven't ...   more »

There's a thorough and interesting analysis in this morning's Financial Times of the future of publishing in a world of ...   more »

An intriguing new title has arrived in the post. It's Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton. Professor Akerlof ...   more »

Brian Arthur has many fans amongst the kinds of economist, once considered outlandish but increasingly rather mainstream, who think about ...   more »

It didn't take much for Derek Bok's new book The Politics of Happiness to have me spluttering with annoyance. It's ...   more »

I spotted John Lanchester's excellent articles about the financial crisis when they were first published. He seemed to combine a ...   more »

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 »