Reviews

They asked for it

30 January 2010, Financial Times

John reviews Joseph Stiglitz’s book on the financial crisis: Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy

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How economists betrayed Tiny Tim

28 December 2009, Financial Times

Processes matter to us as well as outcomes, and so we genuinely appreciate gifts even if we don’t really care for the item.

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Gary Becker and Richard Posner: Uncommon Sense: economic insights, from marriage to terrorism

07 November 2009, Financial Times

John reviews Uncommon Sense, – a compilation of 50 essays and responses between Gary Becker and Richard Posner posted on a blog between 2005 and 2007. The subjects covered range across topical issues from gay marriage to terrorism, from traffic congestion to CEO compensation. more>

What a carve up

01 August 2009, Financial Times

John reviews the most recent books on the 2008/09 financial crisis: Seth Freedman’s Binge Trading , Tetsuya Ishikawa’ How I Caused the Credit Crunch, Edmund Andrews’ Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown , Richard Posner’s The Failure of Capitalism, Paul Mason’s Meltdown, and others. more >

Books: the good, the bad and the cheesy

28 May 2008, Financial Times

Ideas – even those about business – often find their best expression in fiction.

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Shallow lesson of business books

28 August 2007, Financial Times

The mistake both authors and publishers of business books make is to confuse a book about “what I did” with a book about “how to do it”. Whether you are successful because you are skilful or successful because you are lucky, you can easily, and mistakenly, convince yourself that your own experience shows that anyone can do it.

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