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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Review
    Shock Values — how inflation shaped American democracy

    Carola Binder’s monetary history uncovers the deep entanglement of price rises and politics

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  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Special ReportFT Wealth: May
    Let go of your passion if you want to get ahead financially

    A guide to ‘optimising your life for wealth and success’ from the professor of marketing at NYU Stern

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  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Review
    The best new books on economics

    A look at how to control nothing but influence everything; a re-evaluation of how we learn; and breaking down the flaws in economic analyses

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  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
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    Default — the fight over Argentina’s $100bn debt crisis

    Gregory Makoff’s book is a fair and comprehensive look at what became the trial of the century for sovereign debt

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  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Growth — it’s time for a reckoning

    Daniel Susskind argues that there is too much muddled thinking on the topic

    Protesters wave flags. One holds a banner with the word ‘Degrowth’
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Review
    The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions?

    Dan Davies makes a compelling case for the use of Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics in the age of AI

  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Review
    Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism — Big Tech’s walled gardens

    Philipp Staab’s exploration of how tech giants operate like the colonising East India Company offers a nuanced critique of the fast-developing digital economy

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  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Review
    The limits of wealth — calling time on the super-rich

    The rich have always been with us. Is that a good thing?

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  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Review
    The best new books on economics

    The secrets of supercycles; how to build a thriving tech ecosystem; and a deep dive into mining for rare earth metals

  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Review
    Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them — a plea for radical change

    Colin Mayer advocates the power of business — but calls out what is wrong, and how profit could benefit people and the planet

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  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    Behind the Money podcast31 min listen
    Author Amy Edmondson on ‘intelligent failure’

    Hear from the winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns — portrait of an economic colossus

    This splendid biography of ‘the last conservative’ is also an insightful history of 20th-century thinking

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  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Review
    The Politics of Time — against the clock

    Guy Standing’s new book makes a powerful if utopian case for time as an emancipatory measure of inequality

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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Review
    India’s economy, the boomer boom — and why inequality matters

    Where the subcontinent should go next, the value of time and a generational transfer of wealth — all in our round-up of the best new economics titles

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  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
    Martin Wolf on his best economics books of the year

    Martin Wolf selects his best reads of the second half of 2023

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  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    Review
    The Women Who Made Modern Economics by Rachel Reeves — credit where it’s due?

    Part history, part manifesto, the shadow chancellor’s new book highlights brilliant female economists, but borrows without acknowledgment

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  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Review
    The best new books on economics

    A defence of free markets in ‘The Capitalist Manifesto’, and the problem with the Big Four index funds and their financial power

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  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Tej Parikh
    Democracies will languish without structural economic reforms

    Politicians prefer the easy but misguided option of using monetary policy and tax tweaks to fuel growth

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  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Review
    Virtuous Bankers by Anne L Murphy — evolution of the Bank of England

    From war funding to the creation of a methodical banking system that inspired confidence and secured Britain’s financial reputation

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  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Chaos Kings — the traders who make fortunes from disaster

    Scott Patterson’s engaging book delves into the world of ‘Black Swan’ financiers

  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Martin Wolf picks his best economics books of the year so far

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

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  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Material World — the six commodities that shape our lives

    Ed Conway’s lucid book explores the mines and quarries beneath the ‘ethereal’ economy of technology and services

  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Review
    The best new books on economics

    From the roots of Britain’s postwar decline to a dissection of crashes and how to tame technology

  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Review
    Our Lives in Their Portfolios — owners in the shadows

    It is hard not share Brett Christophers’ rage in this polemic against the greed and short-termism of the asset management industry

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