Narrative Economics
In this highly readable introduction to narrative economics, Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller sheds historical and contemporary light on the power of stories to shape…… Read More »
Category: Economics
Spending Time
The author is a distinguished labour economist who has devoted a great deal of study to time as our most valuable resource, based on a…… Read More »
LOVE, MONEY AND PARENTING
We have all been children, and most readers have also been parents and perhaps also grandparents, so this fascinating behavioural analysis will be of wide…… Read More »
Between Debt and the Devil
Adair Turner was a scholar of Gonville and Caius College and President of the Union when I was at Cambridge 40 years ago. Now in…… Read More »
Economics and the Common Good
Jean Tirole teaches at the University of Toulouse, and was the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics. In this wide-ranging and accessible book,…… Read More »
The Economics of Chocolate
Reading this comprehensive volume will tell you more about chocolate than you knew there was to know. It originates in a conference and is divided…… Read More »
CAPITALISING ON CHANGE IN A GLOBALISING WORLD
Wolfgang Michalski has been a Professor of Economics at Hamburg University and was a long-time Director of OECD in the Futures Unit. He is also…… Read More »
End This Depression Now!
Paul Krugman received the Nobel Prize for economics in 2008, and he is a professor of economics at Princeton. The title of the book implies…… Read More »
AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF GREED, LOVE, GROUPS, AND NETWORKS
In today's economic climate it is perhaps not completely unfair to ask if experts on economics know what they are talking about. And if they…… Read More »
THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: THE ECONOMIC TEACHING OF LEON MACLAREN
As a Londoner I have an impression going back decades of posters on the London Underground for meditation courses run by The School of Economic…… Read More »