How to be a Successful Economist
Reviewer: Kate Barker, USS
Exploring the wealth of career opportunities open to those with an interest in economics, Pryce, Ross, Birdi, and Harwood reflect on how students can become successful economists.

A World of Insecurity
Reviewer: Christine Shields, Shields Economics
An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism’s failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out.

Making Money Work for Us
How MMT Can Save America
Reviewer: Melissa Davies, Redburn
In this book, leading Modern Money Theory (MMT) advocate Randy Wray explains that the only real constraints on public policy are physical resources, technological capacity and political will: but never money.

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns
Reviewer: Kate Barker, British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least provides an evidence-based blueprint for successful investing when decades of market tailwinds are turning into headwinds.

A Herstory of Economics
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists.

Slouching Towards Utopia
An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century—a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied.

21st Century Monetary Policy
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva
A former chair of the Federal Reserve explains the transformation of one our most powerful and consequential institutions.

The New Monetary Policy Revolution
Advice and Dissent
Reviewer: William A Allen, National Institute of Economic & Social Research

Global Discord
Values and Power in a Fractured World Order
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Econ Growth Partnership
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggle

The Price of Time
The Real Story of Interest
Reviewer: John Shepperd, Butler Toll
In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law ' s ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century.

Restarting the Future
How to Fix the Intangible Economy
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Restarting the Future reveals how these problems arise from a failure to develop the institutions demanded by an economy now reliant on intangible capital such as ideas, relationships, brands, and knowledge.

Share Power
How ordinary people can change the way that capitalism works – and make money too
Reviewer: Ian Bright
In Share Power, Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-Chief of MoneyWeek, takes us deep into the world of corporate capitalism - from the privatisation of state-owned companies in the 1980s to the financial crash of 2008 and the growth of the modern multinational - to show us how capitalism went wrong and how, with six simple recommendations, every one of us now has the power to make it work for us.

Growth for Good
Reviewer: Ian Bright
From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.

A Brief History of Equality
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Econ Growth Partnership
It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic.

The Chancellors
Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times
Reviewer: William A. Allen, NIESR
In this fascinating insider account, based on in-depth interviews with the Chancellors and key senior officials, Howard Davies shows how the past twenty-five years have nonetheless been a roller-coaster ride for the Treasury.

Can’t We Just Print More Money?
Economics in Ten Simple Questions
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
Whether you're buying lunch, looking for a job, or applying for a mortgage, the thing we call 'the economy' is going to set the terms. A pity, then, that many of us have no idea how the economy actually works. That's where this book comes in.

Career and Family
Women’s Century‑Long Journey toward Equity
Reviewer: Melissa Davies, Chief Economist, Redburn
A renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home.

Raising Keynes
A Twenty‑First-Century General Theory
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
Back to the future: a heterodox economist rewrites Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to serve as the basis for a macroeconomics for the twenty-first century.

The Money Minders
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
In this book, NIESR director Jagjit Chadha unpacks the world of central banking, explaining in accessible language the analytical techniques, policy toolkits or simple story-telling that they use to understand the economy, to implement monetary policy and to communicate their decisions to key decision-makers and the wider public.

