Book reviews
Book notes: The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a New World Order
A fscinating account of the Bretton Woods conference from the point of view of its two main players: John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White
Book notes: Bank of Finland 200 Years: Parliament’s Bank part II
An account of the central bank's dramatic history from December 1939 to the present day
Booknotes: After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
According to Alan Blinder's publisher, he has taken the time 'to think his way through to a truly comprehensive narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened'
Booknotes: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
This volume is based on the transcripts of four lectures from a series delivered by the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board at George Washington University in the spring of 2012
Booknotes: Bull By the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from itself
This is a great book with a clear message: no more bailing out of too-big-too-fail banks.
Booknotes: The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It
The title of Peter Temin and David Vines’ book, especially its subtitle, promises the reader a lot
Booknotes: Making the European Monetary Union
A history of the Committee of Central Bank Governors for the period 1964 to 1993, for which the author, Harold James, had access to the archives
Booknotes: The New Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
This book is a brave and welcome contribution to the analysis of sovereign wealth funds.
Booknotes: Europe's Unfinished Currency
Mayer has grasped the essential truth about Europe’s single currency – that the project not only has an economic context but also an historical one and, above all, a political one.
Booknotes: The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle: A History and Analysis of Con Artists and Victims
Tamar Frankel offers us a colourful and broad picture of con artists who have initiated their own ‘Ponzi schemes’.
Book notes: The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?
This is a hugely important book that should be read by all central bankers, bank supervisors, politicians and newspaper editors
Book notes: Guardians of Finance
This is a book offering a useful contribution to the debate over the future of regulation. By James R Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr and Ross Levine
Book notes: Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
At first glance the cover of this book implies that the overweening attachment of Thatcher and Reagan to free market economics lay at the root of the 2007–08 crisis. But it is not as simple as that
Book notes: First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
The author's premise is that the best way to understand the problems confronting the American economy is to go back to the first principles of economic freedom upon which the country was founded
Book notes: The Money Trap
Robert Pringle’s new book is driven by a sense of missionary zeal
Book notes: End This Depression Now!
One of the rock stars of economics has written another hit
Book notes: Lionel Robbins
A biography of a 20th century British economist
Book notes: Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Is it possible to reflect on modern economics, leaving rigorous academic analytical procedure aside? Nicolas Wapshott believes it is
Book notes: Soft Law and the Global Financial System
An explanation of the role of international standards in regulating the global financial system
