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Book reviews

Yesterday: The United Kingdom from Thatcher to Covid

Author: Brian Harrison
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner

The Winner’s Curse

Behavioural Economics Anomalies Then and Now

Author: Richard Thaler and Alex O. Imas
Reviewer: Ian Bright

AI for Economists

Author: Ashot Davoyan
Reviewer: Vicky Pryce

Challenging Inequalities

How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next

Author: Paul Johnson
Reviewer: Richard Urwin

Powered by Projects

Leading Your Organization in the Transformation Age

Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva

How to Win a Trade War

A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World

Author: Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
Reviewer: Max Magnacca

Expectations Matter

The New Causal Macroeconomics of Surveys and Experiments

Author: Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichecnko
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

Keynes for our Times

Author: Robert Skidelsky
Reviewer: Geoff Crocker

Recession

The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About it

Author: Tyler Goodspeed
Reviewer: Ian Harwood

Bankers' Trust

How Social Relations Avert Global Financial Collapse

Author: Aditi Sahasrabuddhe
Reviewer: William A. Allen

Money Beyond Borders

Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

Author: Barry Eichengreen
Reviewer: Mario Pisani

The Price of Money

A Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of the Natural Rate of Interest

Author: Jamie Rush, Tom Orlik and Stephanie Flanders
Reviewer: Kate Barker

The Battle For Hamble

A Tale of Corporate Greed, Bad Planning, Economic Illiteracy and Plucky Hampshire Villagers

Author: Bill Blain
Reviewer: Bronwyn Curtis

A Century of Plenty

A Story of Progress for Generations to Come

Author: Sven Smit, Chris Bradley, Nick Leung and Marc Canal
Reviewer: Felix Hathaway

Soccernomics

Why England Has Started to Win, Why Clubs Sign the Wrong Players and Why Billionaires Still Lose Money in Football

Author: Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Reviewer: Catherine Connolly

Fixed

Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

Author: John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai
Reviewer: Ian Bright*

Mismanaged Decline

What Politicians Won’t Tell You About the Economy

Author: Vicky Pryce and Andy Ross
Reviewer: Andrew Smith

Capitalism

A Global History

Author: Sven Beckert
Reviewer: Arno Hantzsche

Two Paths to Prosperity

Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Author: Avner Greif, Guido Tabellini, and Joel Mokyr
Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo

The Rage of Party

How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain

Author: George Owers
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

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