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Book reviews

Left Behind

A New Economics for Neglected Places

Reviewer: Anjalika Bardalai

The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperity.

The Tortuous Path of South Korean Economic Development

Reviewer: Andrew Peaple

This book explains how South Korea has uniquely transformed itself from a developing to a developed country by combining economic analysis with historical perspective, and approach badly needed but rarely taken by previous studies.

Edible Economics

The World in 17 Dishes

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chair, Saranac Partners Investment Committee

Economic thinking in its most digestible form

Visions of Financial Order

National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation

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

How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperity

How the World Ran Out of Everything

Inside the Global Supply Chain

Reviewer: Max Magnacca

How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperity.

The Coming Wave

AI, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma

Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co

Soon we will be surrounded by AI's. Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order.

The Bailout State

Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People

Reviewer: Christine Shields

Martijn Konings exposes the inner workings of this sprawling infrastructure of government guarantees.

How to Think Like an Economist

Great Economists Who Shaped the World and What They Can Teach Us

Reviewer: Ian Bright

In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty.

Industrial Policy for the United States

Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High‑Value Industries

Reviewer: Kate Barker, Universities Superannuation Scheme

Orthodox economics notwithstanding, free trade is bad for America, some industries are better than others and government plays an indispensable role in commercialising and developing new technologies

Inside Thatcher's Monetarism Experiment

The Promise, the failure, the legacy

Reviewer: Ian Harwood

Offering fascination insights into one of the most unsuccessful episodes of British economic history, he also examines the legacy of monetarism for the economy today.

Adam Smith's America

How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo, Macro Advisory Partners

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets.

This Time No Mistakes

How to Remake Britain

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

Will Hutton's passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century - and how we can remake a better Britain

Breaking the Mold

India’s Untravelled Path to Prosperity

Reviewer: William A Allen, National Institute for Economic & Social Research

The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic.

Vassal State

How America Runs Britain

Reviewer: Rosemary Connell

British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner - or its colony?

The Market Mind Hypothesis

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Investment Committee Chairman, Saranac Partners

In this pioneering book, Patrick Schotanus explains that economics’ mechanical worldview is the ontological error which leads to flawed thinking and faulty practices.

Pax Economica

Left‑Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace

An Economist Goes to the Game

Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field

Growth

A Reckoning

Reviewer: Kate Barker, Universities Superannuation Scheme

A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it

The Road to Freedom

Economics and the Good Society

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom

The Shortest History of Economics

Reviewer: Ian Harwood

The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transformation, tracing how capitalism and the market system emerged.

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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.

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