This website sets essential cookies for the websites general capabilities. Do you consent to non-essential analytic cookies? For more information: cookies.

Opt-out of non-essential Accept non-essential

  • Contact us
  • Join us
  • Advertise
  • Log in

Society of Professional Economists

  • Home
  • About us
    • Who we are
    • Society activities
      • Annual Conference
      • Annual Dinner
      • Rybczynski Prize
        • Rybczynski Prize Terms & Conditions
        • Winning essays (Reading~Room)
        • Recent winners
      • Statistics Community
    • President & Vice Presidents
    • Councillors
    • Data Protection and Privacy
  • What's on
    • Events
    • Past events
  • News
  • Reading Room
    • Book reviews
    • Articles & Shortlisted Essays
    • Salary surveys
    • Winning Rybczynski Essays
    • Members' Polls
  • Podcasts & Speakers
    • Podcasts
    • Speaker Series
    • Conference reports
    • Annual Dinner reviews
  • Careers
    • Professional development
    • SPE Courses
    • Jobs board
  • Membership
    • Membership of SPE
    • Membership directory
    • Society documents
    • Join the SPE
    • Subscriptions
  • Contact us
  • Join us
  • Advertise
  • Log in
  • Home
  • About us
    • Who we are
    • Society activities
      • Annual Conference
      • Annual Dinner
      • Rybczynski Prize
        • Rybczynski Prize Terms & Conditions
        • Winning essays (Reading~Room)
        • Recent winners
      • Statistics Community
    • President & Vice Presidents
    • Councillors
    • Data Protection and Privacy
  • What's on
    • Events
    • Past events
  • News
  • Reading Room
    • Book reviews
    • Articles & Shortlisted Essays
    • Salary surveys
    • Winning Rybczynski Essays
    • Members' Polls
  • Podcasts & Speakers
    • Podcasts
    • Speaker Series
    • Conference reports
    • Annual Dinner reviews
  • Careers
    • Professional development
    • SPE Courses
    • Jobs board
  • Membership
    • Membership of SPE
    • Membership directory
    • Society documents
    • Join the SPE
    • Subscriptions
  • Reading Room
Reading Room
  • Book reviews
  • Articles & Shortlisted Essays
  • Salary surveys
  • Winning Rybczynski Essays
  • Members' Polls

Book reviews

How Countries Go Broke

Principles for Navigating the Big Debt Cycle, Where We Are Headed, and What We Should Do

Reviewer: Keith Wade, Independent Economist and NIESR Trustee

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

What You Need to Know About Hedge Funds, but the Managers Won’t Tell You

Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva

Can Europe Survive?

The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

Reviewer: Ian Harwood

The World at Economic War

How to Rebuild Security in a Weaponized Global Economy

Reviewer: Ian Bright

Capitalism and its Critics

A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World

Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo

The Economics of Creative Destruction

New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

Reviewer: Neil Reeder, Head and Heart Economics

Multicurrency Mercantilism

The New International Monetary Order

Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Reviewer: Joe Little

Central Banking and Monetary Policy Implementation, Volume I

Reviewer: William A. Allen, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Rethinking Income and Money

Incorporating Technology into Economic Theory

Reviewer: Gerry Holtham, Visiting Professor, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Money: A Story of Humanity

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chair, Saranac Partners Investment Committee

Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro

Reviewer: Max Magnacca

Why We’re Getting Poorer

A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix it

Reviewer: Kate Barker, Universities Superannuation Scheme

The Fractured Age

How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy

Reviewer: Rosie Cornelius, Independent Economist and former Chief Analyst, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump

What the Trade War Means for the World

Reviewer: Geoff Crocker, Author, 'Rethinking Income and Money

Leading financial journalist Philip Coggan lifts the lid on Trump's economic gamble, why it's a universal threat and how we can make sense of this new 'age of chaos'. This is his clear-sighted and powerful rallying cry in defence of global trade - and why it matters for the world.

Richer and More Equal

A New History of Wealth in the West

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations

Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region

Status, States and Moral Sentiments

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

Respect can be understood as a considerate that is expressed through the adequate acknowledgement of somebody's current status position.

Beyond Banks

Technology, Regulation and the Future of Money

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chair, Saranac Partners Investment Committee

How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we pay.

Our Dollar, Your Problem

An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca

A leading economist explores the global rise of the US dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.

12345678910…20>

Articles reflect the authors’ views which are not necessarily shared by the Society or the Editor. The Editor welcomes comments, ideas and articles on a wide range of applied economics topics and related issues of more general interest.

For Books and Reviews contact:
Ian Harwood
Book Reviews Editor, The Society of Professional Economists
harwoodfive@btinternet.com

Reading Room
  • Book reviews
  • Articles & Shortlisted Essays
  • Salary surveys
  • Winning Rybczynski Essays
  • Members' Polls

© Society of Professional Economists

Site Policies, FAQs  |  Website by ODC  &  BB