From the education of a Nobel Prize-winning economist to debates about privacy and the drawbacks of global supply chains, Professor Diane Coyle of Cambridge University's Bennett Institute for Public Policy chooses the best economics books of 2021. These are highly readable books that also shed impo...
Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for The Washington Post, previously won the Financial Times’ Business Book of the Year Award in 2016 for his biography of economist Alan Greenspan. His latest book, “The Power Law,” looks at the role venture capitalists have played in shaping Silicon Vall...
This may be the year for books about Bill Gross. In addition toThe Bond Kingby Mary Childs, which we rank the best overall investing book on our list, the subject himself has released a self-published autobiography titledI’m Still Standing: Bond King Bill Gross and the PIMCO Express. Chi...
Called “the best practitioners' guide to valuation” byThe Financial Timesand “the most influential contemporary books about the world economy” byThe Economist, the newly revised eighth McKinsey's long tradition of excellence. In the book, a team of veteran McKinsey ...
“All of Us Strangers” In the year’s most tender and intimate film, a lonely screenwriter (Andrew Scott) visits his childhood home and meets the ghosts of his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell). …
and I found myself wanting to read the type of obituaries that got Johnson so excited. So when LibraryThing listed The Economist Book of Obituaries in its Early Reviewer books for November, I jumped at the chance to get it. I was thrilled when I was lucky enough to receive a review copy...
Named by The Economist as one of the best books of 2017 Who should read Americana? American history enthusiasts People interested in the economy past and present Fans – or enemies – of capitalism Read the book summary Buy on Amazon 29 One Billion Americans Matthew Yglesias The Case for Thi...
留美强叫兽:经济学人:《经济学人》评选的 2023 年最佳电影 The best films of 2023, as chosen by The Economist Exceptional crime dramas, comedies and psychological thrillers have come to the small scre…
But other experts aren’t convinced. According to Monica Capri, an economist with a background in neuro-economies at Claremont Graduate University, subjective time isn’t well understood scientifically. Even if higher-paid jobs can lead to more new experiences, wealthy people aren’t necessarily sp...
Nudging started in 2008 with the publication of a book by Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Richard Taylor. Professor taylor's ideas about how to gently persuade people into making good decisions became known as Nudge theory. Adv...