Book reviews
Book notes: The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
This is a hugely important book that should be read by all central bankers, bank supervisors, politicians and newspaper editors
Book notes: Guardians of Finance
This is a book offering a useful contribution to the debate over the future of regulation. By James R Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr and Ross Levine
Book notes: Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
At first glance the cover of this book implies that the overweening attachment of Thatcher and Reagan to free market economics lay at the root of the 2007–08 crisis. But it is not as simple as that
Book notes: First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
The author's premise is that the best way to understand the problems confronting the American economy is to go back to the first principles of economic freedom upon which the country was founded
Book notes: The Money Trap
Robert Pringle’s new book is driven by a sense of missionary zeal
Book notes: End This Depression Now!
One of the rock stars of economics has written another hit
Book notes: Lionel Robbins
A biography of a 20th century British economist
Book notes: Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Is it possible to reflect on modern economics, leaving rigorous academic analytical procedure aside? Nicolas Wapshott believes it is
Book notes: Soft Law and the Global Financial System
An explanation of the role of international standards in regulating the global financial system