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Book reviews

The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump

What the Trade War Means for the World

Author: Philip Coggan
Reviewer: Geoff Crocker, Author, 'Rethinking Income and Money

Leading financial journalist Philip Coggan lifts the lid on Trump's economic gamble, why it's a universal threat and how we can make sense of this new 'age of chaos'. This is his clear-sighted and powerful rallying cry in defence of global trade - and why it matters for the world.

Richer and More Equal

A New History of Wealth in the West

Author: Daniel Waldenstrom
Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations

Author: Carl Benedikt Frey
Reviewer: Kevin Gardiner, Rothschild & Co/Cardiff Capital Region

How Countries Go Broke

Principles for Navigating the Big Debt Cycle, Where We Are Headed, and What We Should Do

Author: Ray Dalio
Reviewer: Keith Wade, Independent Economist and NIESR Trustee

The Little Book of Hedge Funds

What You Need to Know About Hedge Funds, but the Managers Won’t Tell You

Author: Anthony Scaramucci
Reviewer: Lavan Mahadeva

Can Europe Survive?

The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

Author: David Marsh
Reviewer: Ian Harwood

The World at Economic War

How to Rebuild Security in a Weaponized Global Economy

Author: Rebecca Harding
Reviewer: Ian Bright

Capitalism and its Critics

A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World

Author: John Cassidy
Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo

The Economics of Creative Destruction

New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

Author: Ufuk Akcigit and John Van Reenen
Reviewer: Neil Reeder, Head and Heart Economics

Multicurrency Mercantilism

The New International Monetary Order

Author: Kathleen Tyson
Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Author: Dan Wang
Reviewer: Joe Little

Status, States and Moral Sentiments

How Respect and Disrespect Shape International Politics

Reviewer: Bridget Rosewell

Respect can be understood as a considerate that is expressed through the adequate acknowledgement of somebody's current status position.

Beyond Banks

Technology, Regulation and the Future of Money

Reviewer: Richard Urwin, Chair, Saranac Partners Investment Committee

How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we pay.

Our Dollar, Your Problem

An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

Reviewer: Maximilian Magnacca

A leading economist explores the global rise of the US dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured.

The Real Economy

History and Theory

Reviewer: Geoff Crocker, Author of “Rethinking Income and Money” (Palgrave, 2025)

A provocative new theory of "the economy," its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics

Return to Growth (Volume I & II)

How to Fix the Economy

Reviewer: Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director, A&M

In this arresting and powerful manifesto for economic change, Jon Moynihan analyses the UK's decades-long stagnant economy and looks at what can be done to resuscitate it.

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

Reviewer: Leath Al Obaidi

One of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone.

A Modern Economic History of Japan

Reviewer: Ian Harwood

The modern economic history of Japan is an extraordinary tale. The country rose over the course of just a hundred and twenty odd years from outright backwardness to the elite tier of the most advanced economies.

The World Under Capitalism

Observations on Economics, Politics, History and Culture

Reviewer: Ian Bright

Providing an abundance of vital insights into evolution and dynamics of the world under capitalism.

Equality

What It Means and Why It Matters

Reviewer: Vicky Pryce

Two of the world's most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us.

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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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