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  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    Review
    Follow the Money by Paul Johnson — an exasperated guide to Britain’s fiscal affairs

    The IFS director’s enthusiastic, informed guide offers much analysis — but little reassurance

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Review
    Martin Wolf shines a light on the doom loop of democratic capitalism

    The economics commentator appeals for a renewed concept of citizenship to save democracy

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    What economists get wrong about personal finance

    The advice given by academics and by financial self-help gurus is often very different

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    Homecoming — prescriptions for a post-globalisation economy

    The FT’s Rana Foroohar explores the policy U-turns that seek to reverse the precarity suffered by much of middle America

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    Best books of 2022: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles of the past six months

  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club — knowledge and power

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

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
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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

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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    Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America’s global dream

    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

  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
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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

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
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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

  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
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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
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Cloudmoney — making the case for cash

    As cryptocurrencies garner attention and other forms of digital payment take hold, Brett Scott warns against the lure of the contactless society

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
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  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
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    Summer Books 2022

    From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    Best summer books of 2022: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    Review
    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
    Review
    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
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    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

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    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

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
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    The best new books on economics

    Martin Wolf rounds up essential reads on war, peace and the problems with free markets

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
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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’

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Review
    Share Power by Merryn Somerset Webb — held to account

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

  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles for the second half of 2021

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    Best Books of the Year 2021

    From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics pick their favourite reads in our annual round-up of publishing highlights

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