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Book Review: Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for...

This collection aims to consider how improvements in official global governance, coupled with and reinforced by rising activism of ‘global citizens’ can lead to welfare-enhancing and more equitable...

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Book Review: The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts...

In The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts, Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins argue that the logic of economics has come to shape how political issues are framed and...

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Book Review: Singapore and Switzerland: Secrets to Small States Success...

What makes a small state succeed? In Singapore and Switzerland: Secrets to Small State Success, editors Yvonne Guo and Jun Jie Woo explore this question through two cases that have shown similar...

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Book Review: Law and the Economy in Colonial India by Tirthankar Roy and...

In Law and Economy in Colonial India, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy explore the origins of British law and its continued legal impediments of the Indian economy today. Reserving high praise for...

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Book Review: Everyday Economics: A User’s Guide to the Modern Economy by...

For many of us, economics appears too abstract and rooted in assumptions that make individuals seem unfamiliar as human subjects. In Everyday Economics: A User’s Guide to the Modern Economy, Steve...

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Book Review: Making Capitalism Fit For Society by Colin Crouch

Making Capitalism Fit For Society aims show that the acceptance of capitalism and the market does not require us to accept the full neoliberal agenda of unrestrained markets, insecurity in our working...

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Book Review: The Foundations of the British Conservative Party: Essays on...

This collection of essays, edited by Bradley W. Hart and Richard Carr, provides a detailed intellectual anatomy of the British Conservative Party, its philosophical and historical underpinnings, and...

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Book Review: Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in...

In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance in countries that have recently experienced both economic and democratic transitions. He focuses on...

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Book Review: Money For Everyone: Why we need a Citizen’s Income by Malcolm Torry

In this book Malcolm Torry considers the social, economic and labour market advantages of introducing a Citizen’s Income in the UK. The author attempts to explore its implications on the economy,...

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Book Review: Displacement Economies in Africa: Paradoxes of Crisis and...

Based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the contributions in this volume look to provide fresh insights into the unexpected changes, complex agency and persistent dynamism...

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