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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

    Montage of bookcovers
  • 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

    English economist John Maynard Keynes sitting at a desk
  • 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

    A grand old building with people a horse-drawn carriage on the road
  • 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

    Montage of book covers
  • 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

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

    Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

    Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    Review
    Crack-Up Capitalism — is democracy in danger from free-market dogma?

    Quinn Slobodian’s eye-catching case studies warn against the powerful movement seeking a radical capitalist future

    The construction of One Canada Square in London’s Canary Wharf
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Free and Equal — why John Rawls’s philosophy matters today

    Daniel Chandler offers a powerfully argued case for renovating democracy’s tattered social contract

    A man stands with a ‘Tax the rich’ sign
  • 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

    A group of people protest
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    What economists get wrong about personal finance

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

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Review
    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

    President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Carlsbad, California, his lectern flanked by the slogan ‘Made in America’
  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Working It podcast16 min listen
    The best business books to read now

    FT editors on judging the FT’s best business book of the year award

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    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

    A page of writing with ornate detail
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Review
    Free Market — the boundary between state and the economy

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

    A fruit seller on a London street in 1873
  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    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
    Review
    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
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    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
    Review
    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

    A high-speed train at a busy station platform
  • 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

    Two cashpoints side by side on a bank wall, boarded up with chipboard and partly repaired with tape. Graffiti scrawled across them and on the wall
  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Summer Books 2022
    What books should you read this summer?

    Listen to our Twitter discussion with FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, deputy books editor Laura Battle and FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos

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