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      Homecoming — prescriptions for a post-globalisation economy

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      Christopher de Hamel brings different worlds to life through the keepers of medieval manuscripts

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      Free Market — the boundary between state and the economy

      A timely and erudite history traces our ambiguous attitudes towards moneymaking and laissez faire trade

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      An economic history of the last century recalls a period that improved and redefined the lives of billions — yet also enabled war and environmental destruction

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      The Currency of Politics — how Aristotle, Marx and Keynes made us think about money

      Stefan Eich’s book is a splendidly clear guide to the intellectual history of monetary policy — and how to tackle what comes next

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      A matter of interest — the battle over monetary policy

      Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and historian Edward Chancellor offer conflicting perspectives on the crisis in central banking

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      British Rail: A New History — a timely reminder of how to run a railway

      Christian Wolmar’s examination of nationalisation reveals that in the 1980s and 1990s the system was making progress

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
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      Cloudmoney — making the case for cash

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      The secret of development? Ask the elite

      Stefan Dercon’s urgent and important book argues that for countries to achieve growth, the people in power have to want it

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
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      The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

      An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
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      The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — an instant classic

      Gary Gerstle’s economic history is essential reading for learning how we arrived at a reckoning with capitalism

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      A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

      The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

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      Growth is still the answer to the world’s economic problems

      Two economists argue that capitalism can be revitalised by promoting ‘further investment’ in what they call ‘intangible capital’

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      This book calls for individual investors to have more say in the running of the companies they own and offers solutions

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      Cogs and Monsters and The New Economics — quests for a new model

      Two books start with the premise that our present understanding of capitalism is wrong but offer radically different solutions

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      Samuelson and Friedman — a rivalry that echoes down to the present

      A new look at two giants of postwar economics whose views shaped the free market

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