Review of Jesse Norman on Adam Smith
No-one is more widely quoted by people who have not read his work. Even people who have never visited a library, far less opened a copy...
Book Review: The Reckoning: Jacob Soll
If Prospect held a competition for the most improbable conjunction of author and quotation, my ent...
Book Review – The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
The Great Escape is escape from ill-health and deprivation. The author exemplifies it through the story of his own family. ...
Book Review – Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of our Time by Ira Katznelson
The presidency of Franklin Roosevelt secured the survival of lightly regulated capitalism and liberal democracy, not just in the United...
Book Review: The Big Short by Michael Lewis
This book is a remarkable achievement. It is as gripping as a thriller, yet it manages to ex...
Book Review – Uncommon Sense: economic insights, from marriage to terrorism – Gary Becker and Richard Posner
This book finds its origin in an unusual blog. The creators of the blog and authors of the book are Gary Becker and Richard Posne...
Book review: The Spirit Level: why more equal societies almost always do better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
For more than two decades, we have been encouraged to believed that the prosperity of the few is to the ultimate benefit of all. ...
Book Review – The Black Swan by Nicholas Naseem Taleb
Nicholas Naseem Taleb's book Fooled by Randomness argued that there is a human tendency to recognise false patterns and attribute cause...
Book Review: The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
As a speak, I sometimes receive the results of survey forms completed by conference delegates. Mostly, they seem to like what the...
Book review – Dynasties by David Landes
David Landes’ last book - The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - displayed the magisterial talents of the mature historian drawing o...