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  Plundering the Public Sector

David Craig with Richard Brooks, Constable, 2006, 264 pages, £9.99

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  Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance

John C Coffee Jr, Oxford University Press, 2006, 389 pages, £18.99

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  A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy

James Macdonald, Princeton University Press, 2006, ix + 564 pages, £12.95 (paperback)

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 1276 
 
  The Sociology of Financial Markets

Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda, (eds), Oxford University Press, 2004, 319 pages, £50

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 1269 
 
  The Future of Europe – Reform or Decline

Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, The MIT Press, 2006, 224 pages, £16.95

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  Nature: An Economic History

Geerat J Vermeij, Princeton University Press, 2006, 445p, £12.95 (paperback), £32.50 (cloth)

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  How to Get Rich: The Distilled Wisdom of One of Britain’s Wealthiest Self-made Entrepreneurs

Felix Dennis, Ebury Press, 2006, xx + 278 pages, £16.99

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 1345 
 
  The Soulful Science: What Economists Do and Why It Matters

Diane Coyle, Princeton University Press, 2007, 278 pages, £17.99

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  The Long Tail

Chris Anderson, Random House, 2006, 238 pages, £17.99

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 1141 
 
  The Chancellors’ Tales: Managing the British Economy

Howard Davies, (ed), Polity Press, 2006, 176 pages, £12.99, (paperback)

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 1204 
 
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