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  Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions / The Mind of the Market: compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics

Predictably Irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions

Dan Ariely, Harper Collins, 2008, £16.99, 278pp.

The Mind of the Market: compassionate apes, competitive humans, and other tales from evolutionary economics

Michael Shermer, Times Books, December 2007, $26 (approx £13 on Amazon UK), 306pp
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  The Warhol Economy: How, Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Elizabeth Currid, Princeton University Press, 2007, 280 pages, £16.95.

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  The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries

A B Atkinson, Oxford University Press, 2008, 504 pages, £25.

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  Prohibitions

Edited by John Meadowcroft, The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2008, 266 pages, £15.00.
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  Here Comes Everybody: The power of organizing without organizations

Clay Shirky, Allen Lane, 2008, 336 pages, £20.

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  The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler, Yale University Press, 2006, 528 pages, £25.

Free download available from http://www.benkler.org/ under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Sharealike license.

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  The Illusions of Entrepreneurship

Scott A Shane, Yale University Press, 2008, 224 pages, £18.

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  The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves

William P Barnett, Princeton University Press, 2008, 272 pages, £17.95.

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  Panicology

Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Viking, 2008, xx + 284 pages, £18.99
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  Plight of the Fortune Tellers: Why we need to manage financial risk differently

Riccardo Rebonato, Princeton University Press, 2007, 304 pages, £19.95
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  From Wall Street to the Great Wall - How Investors Can Profit from China's Booming Economy

Burton G Malkiel and Patricia A Taylor, WW Norton and Co, 2007, 294 pages, £16.99.
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  China and America - A Time of Reckoning

Charles Dumas, Profile Books, 2008, 212 pages, £12.99.

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Gatehouse Bank
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Chairman, Lombard Street Research Ltd
Ian Harwood
Chief Economist, Evolution Securities
Paul Mills
Dr Mills analyses financial stability and policy and lives in Washington
Chola
Founder, Zambian Economist
Diane Coyle
Enlightenment Economics
Gabriel Stein
Director, Lombard Street Research Ltd
Michael Hedley
David Grover
London School of Economics
Richard Bronk
Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics
Diane Coyle
Enlightenment Economics
John Calverley
Head of Research North America, Standard Chartered Bank
Richard Bronk
Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics
Bill Allen
Jill Leyland
Andrew Peaple
Beijing-based columnist with the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column
Diane Coyle
Enlightenment Economics
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Eton College
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Fathom Consulting
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Andrew Peaple
Writer on the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Heard on the Street’ column.
Phil Thornton
Lead Consultant, Clarity Economics
Bethan Marshall
Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London
Peter Nolan
Principal, Radios Capital
Mariano Selvaggi
Research Department, Association of British Insurers
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Leader writer, The Times
Jeremy Peat
Director, The David Hume Institute
Alasdair Keith
Consultant, Outsights Ltd
Keith Wade
Chief Economist, Schroeders plc
Benedikt Koehler
The author works for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. He writes in a personal capacity.
Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology Correspondent, BBC
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