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Articles from August 2007
  Plundering the Public Sector

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

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 749 
 
  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 738 
 
  The Sociology of Financial Markets

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

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  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

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  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

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  The Chancellors’ Tales: Managing the British Economy

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

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  Putting Econometrics in its Place – a New Direction in Applied Economics

G M Peter Swann, Edward Elgar, 2006, iv + 250 pages, £59.95

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  Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

David Warsh, W W Norton, 2006, xxii + 426 pages, £16.99.

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  The Future of Financial Markets

David G Mayes et al, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, xv + 175 pages, £55.00

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  Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars

Peter Hartcher, W W Norton, 2006, xix + 231 pages, £15.99.

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  Reviving the Invisible Hand

Deepak Lal, Princeton University Press, 2006, 320 pages, £29.50, (Paper £18.95).

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  The Undercover Economist

Tim Harford, Little Brown, 2006, 278 pages, £12.99

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  Traders, Guns and Money

Satayajit Das, FT Prentice Hall, 2006, 334 pages, £20.00

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  Unwarranted Intrusions, The Case against Government Intervention in the Marketplace

Martin Fridson, John Wiley, 2006, 294 pages, £16.99

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 723 
 
  Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy (2nd ed)

Simon Cox, (ed), The Economist/Profile Books, 2006, x + 326 pages, £20.00 (Paper £10.99)

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 735 
 
  McCloskey’s Rhetoric: Discourse Ethics in Economics

Benjamin Balak, Routledge, 2006, 142 pages, £65.00

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  Globalization and Its Enemies

Daniel Cohen, The MIT Press, 2006,192 pages, £18.95

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  The New Economy and Macroeconomic Stability: A Neo-Modern Perspective Drawing on the Complexity Approach and Keynesian Economics

Teodoro Dario Togati, Routledge, 2006, 309 pages, £80.00

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 714 
 
  Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform

Jinglian Wu, Thomson South-Western, 2005, 464 pages, £19.99

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  Surviving Capitalism: how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human

Erik Ringmar, Anthem Press, 2005, 198 pages, £16.99

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 765 
 
  Inequality Matters, The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences

James Lardner and David A Smith (eds), The New Press, 2006, 328 pages, £17.99

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  Guide to Financial Markets, Fourth Edition

Marc Levinson, The Economist (in association with Profile Books), 2006, 250 pages, £20.00.

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  Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalisation and Welfare

Andrew Glyn, Oxford University Press, 2006, 234 pages, £16.99

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  The Bill From The China Shop

Charles Dumas and Diana Choyleva, Profile Books, 2006, 149 pages, £12.99

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 755 
 
  The Exceptional Manager: Making the Difference

Rick Delbridge, Lynda Gratton and Gerry Johnson, Oxford University Press, 2006, xxx+ 264 pages, £25.00

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  Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development

Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, Oxford University Press, 2005, 315 pages, £15.99

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  The Principle of Mutual Recognition in the European Integration Process

Fiorella Kostoris Padao Schioppa, (ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xv + 242 pages, £55.00

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 782 
 
  Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Geoffrey Jones, Oxford University Press, 2005, 447 pages, £30.00 (paper £14.99)

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  Competitive Intelligence: Gathering Analysing and Putting it to Work

Christopher Murphy, Gower, 2005, xxvi + 273 pages, £55.00

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  The Rise of Spanish Multinationals, European Business in the Global Economy

Mauro F Guillén, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ix + 268 pages, £30.00

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 665 
 
  International Business and Government Relations in the 21st Century

Robert Grosse, (ed), Cambridge University Press, 2005, 327 pages, £30.00

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 668 
 
  Economic Forecasting

Nicholas Carnot, Vincent Koen and Bruno Tissot, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xix + 325 pages, £65.00 (paper cover £22.50)

  Read Review . . 26 August 2007 658 
 

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Charles Whitworth
Formerly Senior Economist in OFWAT and the Office of Fair Trading
Rosemary Connell
Nooman Haque
Gatehouse Bank
Charles Dumas
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
Nooman Haque
Investment Banker at Gatehouse
Tom Witherow
Eton College
Shamik Dhar
Fathom Consulting
Bronwyn Curtis
Head of Global Research, HSBC
Charles H Whitworth
Steven Bell
Portfolio Manager, GLC Global Macro Fund, and Director GLC Ltd.
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
Oliver Kamm
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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