How to Make the World Add Up
Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Reviewer: Mario Pisani, HM Treasury
In How to Make the World Add Up, Tim Harford draws on his experience as both an economist and presenter of the BBC's radio show 'More or Less'. He takes us deep into the world of disinformation and obfuscation, bad research and misplaced motivation to find those priceless jewels of data and analysis that make communicating with numbers worthwhile.
China:
The Bubble That Never Pops
Reviewer: Andrew Peaple
Tom Orlik, a veteran of more than a decade on the ground in Beijing and Shanghai, turns the spotlight on China's fragile fundamentals, and resources for resilience. Drawing on discussions with the Communist cadres planning China's rise, the bankers providing the financing, and the laborers sweating the construction sites, Orlik pieces together a unique perspective on China's past, present, and possible futures.
Quantitative Easing:
The Great Central Bank Experiment
Reviewer: Dean Turner
This book offers a thorough and perspicacious analysis of QE, which has become a recovery method of last resort. Whilst it was successful in averting another Great Depression and stimulating growth, it remains controversial and continues to promote widespread debate in economics, financial, and political-economy circles. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand central banking in the national economy.
Schism
China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System
Reviewer: Rebecca Harding
China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was heralded as historic, and for good reason: the world's most populous nation was joining the rule-based system that has governed international commerce since World War II. But the full ramifications of that event are only now becoming apparent, as the Chinese economic juggernaut has evolved in unanticipated and profoundly troublesome ways.
Bit by Bit
Social Research in the Digital Age
Reviewer: Ian Bright
An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile phones, and numerous other digital marvels. In addition to changing how we live, these tools enable us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable, offering entirely new approaches to core questions about social behaviour.
What's Wrong With Economics?
A Primer for the Perplexed
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell, Senior Advisor, Volterra Partners
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time.
Money in the Great Recession:
Did a Crash in Money Growth Cause the Global Slump?
Reviewer: Christine Shields
No issue is more fundamental in contemporary macroeconomics than identifying the causes of the recent Great Recession. The standard view is that the banks were to blame because they took on too much risk, 'went bust' and had to be bailed out by governments.
An Economic History of the English Garden
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell, Senior Advisor, Volterra Partners
At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop making, improving and dreaming of gardens. Yet in all the thousands of books about them, this is the first to address seriously the question of how much gardens and gardening have cost, and to work out the place of gardens in the economic, as well as the horticultural, life of the nation. It is a new kind of gardening history.
China's Change:
The Greatest Show on Earth
Reviewer: Ian Harwood
As the Chinese economy has become an ever larger and more integral part of the global economy, so too has China-watching become an increasingly active pursuit.
Slowdown:
The End of the Great Acceleration‑and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce, Board Member, CEBR
The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown.