For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Global history & Economics

August 2023 Issue

Harold James

Fuzzing It Up

The Economic Government of the World 1933–2023

By Martin Daunton

December 2022 Issue

Howard Davies

Dr Doom Strikes Again

Megathreats: The Ten Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

By Nouriel Roubini

February 2020 Issue

Martin Vander Weyer

From Barter to Barclays

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

By Philip Coggan

June 2019 Issue

Howard Davies

Financial Times

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914

By Donald Sassoon

April 2009 Issue

Michael Holman

Trillion Dollar Question

Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa

By Dambisa Moyo (Foreword by Niall Ferguson)

July 2008 Issue

Gerard Baker

The Rise of the Rest

The Post-American World

By Fareed Zakaria

August 2008 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Pizza Politics

Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business

By James Harding

March 2008 Issue

Allister Heath

Assume A Tin Opener

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

By Jeffrey D Sachs

March 2008 Issue

John Gray

Under Western Eyes

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West

By Anthony Pagden

July 2007 Issue

Allister Heath

Economical Reading

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

By P J O’Rourke

Kathleen Burk

Follow the Money

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt

By Kwasi Kwarteng