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  Happiness, Economics amd Public Policy
Helen Johns and Paul Ormerod, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007, 106pp, £10.00.
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  Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy
Philip Booth et al, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2007, 274 pages, £15.00.

Also available for free download at http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=book&ID=410 
  Read Review . . 21 May 2008 1186 
 
  Can Germany Be Saved? The Malaise of the World's First Welfare State
 Hans-Werner Sinn, MIT Press, June 2007, 504 pages, £18.95.
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  The World's Newest Profession - Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century
 Christopher D McKenna, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 392 pages, £20.00.
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  The Second Bounce of the Ball: Turning Risk into Opportunity
 Ronald Cohen (with Terry Ilott), Weidenfeld and Nelson, 2007, 304 pages, £20.00.
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  What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
 Alan Krueger, Princeton University Press, 2007, 192 pages, £14.95.
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  One Economics - Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
 Dani Rodrik, Princeton University Press, 2008, 278 pages, £19.95.
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  The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
 Paul Collier, Oxford University Press, 2007, 224 pages, £16.99.
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  Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
 Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams, Portfolio, 2006, 320 pages, £17.99.
  Read Review . . 21 May 2008 1119 
 
  The Tiger that Isn’t: Seeing Through A World of Numbers

Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, Profile, 2007, 256 pages, £12.99.

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