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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

      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

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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

    • 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

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    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
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      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

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    • 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

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    • 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
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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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      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

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    • 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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