Where Credit Is Due
How Africa’s Debt Can Be A Benefit, Not A Burden
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva
Gregory Smith guides us expertly through the travails and successes in forty years of Sub-Saharan Africa’s debt and warns that we may still see a rerun of the 1980s borrowing boom that ended in a two-decade-long debt crisis.

Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through
The surprising story of Britain’s economy from boom to bust and back again
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through tells the story of how Britain's economy and politics have interacted with each other from the time of the Industrial Revolution right up to the pandemic of 2020.

Tumultuous Times
Central Banking in an Era of Crisis
Reviewer: Melissa Davies, Chief Economist, Redburn
Masaaki Shirakawa, who led the bank as governor from 2008 to 2013, provides a rare insider’s account of the workings of Japanese economic and monetary policy during this period and how it challenged mainstream economic thinking.

Nudge: The Final Edition
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser & Board Member, CEBR
Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens and consumers everywhere. Now, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have updated the book, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research.

The Power of Creative Destruction:
Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
From one of the world's leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.

How Boards Work:
and how they can work better in a chaotic world
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, NED, Man Group plc
In How Boards Work prizewinning economist, veteran board director, and bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers an insider's view of corporate boards as they are buffeted by the turbulence of our times

Austerity: When is it a mistake and when is it necessary?
Reviewer: William Allen, NIESR
For anyone seeking answers to such questions as: "What can we learn from the UK’s economic history that is relevant to current policy?", "Is austerity ever necessary or desirable?" and "Can the harmful effects of austerity programmes be mitigated?" then this book will be welcome reading.

Combating Inequality:
Rethinking Government’s Role
Reviewer: Christine Shields
Leading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality.

Profit and Prejudice:
The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
Profit and Prejudice takes us through the relationship between economic success and prejudice in labour markets.

Prosperity:
Better Business Makes the Greater Good
Reviewer: Richard Bronk, https://imaginationineconomics.com/
What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous and damaging consequences for our economies, environment, politics, and societies.

Trade Wars are Class Wars
Reviewer: Ian Bright
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers.

The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
Reviewer: Andrew Peaple
In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today’s financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.

Stolen Heritage:
The Strange Death of Industrial England
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Economicn Growth Partnership
Britain was the cradle of the industrial revolution. Its manufacturing prowess sustained a unique global standing in the nineteenth century, bore it to victory in the great wars of the twentieth, was a trusty servant of its domestic needs and imperial pretensions, and an enduring source of pride. Quite suddenly, this pre-eminence has vanished. Only yesterday an industrial giant, the UK is heading for the third division.

Outside The Box
Reviewer: Ian Harwood
From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future.

The Great Demographic Reversal
Reviewer: Dame Kate Barker, British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme
This book demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. The result? Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to increase the share of labour, so that inequality falls.

The Cost of Free Money
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order.

You're Paid What You're Worth
And Other Myths of the Modern Economy
Reviewer: Rosemary Connell
A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis.

Superpower Showdown
Reviewer: William Allen, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
This is the inside story of the US–China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.

Mission Economy
A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest problems of our time.
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This Sovereign Isle
Britain In and Out of Europe
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region Economic Growth Partners
In this succinct book, Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable - by Britain's very different historical experience, especially in the twentieth century, and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe.
