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  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    ReviewCoronavirus economic impact
    A bracing collection of salvos on the ‘new Great Depression’

    An enjoyable, if unduly pessimistic, forecast on the post-pandemic economy

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Why economics needs to wake up to ageing populations

    Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan forecast a future of secular stagflation in The Great Demographic Reversal

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2020
    Money, by Jacob Goldstein

    A readable introduction to how money morphed into the varied forms it has today

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    ReviewFT Series
    Best Books of the Year 2020

    From ideas for rethinking economics and politics to pure escapism, FT writers and critics choose their favourite titles of what has been an extraordinary year for books

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
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  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Books written by FT journalists in 2020

    Our pick of the best books written by current and former FT writers

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles for the second half of 2020

  • Saturday, 14 November, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Kleptopia — dirty money’s tangled web of deceit

    Tom Burgis’ probe shines a light on the legalised secrecy within the financial system

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

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  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    What the South Sea Company can teach us

    Two books explore historical financial frenzies and the lessons they hold for investors today

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The New Map — why shifts in energy sources could reshape global politics

    Daniel Yergin’s book sheds light on the dominance of oil and gas — but what about climate change and the future of renewables?

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Contested future: What next for the west?

    Globalisation has, for many, undercut wages and jobs — and fuelled populism. Can three new books unpick an issue that so divides us? 

  • Thursday, 6 August, 2020
    Review
    Greed Is Dead — the problematic rise of the individual

    Collier and Kay’s scathing account of economic self-interest warns of harm to communities

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Martin Wolf: what trade wars tell us

    A new book looks at why global conflicts owe more to divisions within countries than between them

  • Wednesday, 10 June, 2020
    Review
    The Economics of Belonging — globalisation for the left behind

    Martin Sandbu’s prospectus is a radical plan, but where is the radical who will do it?

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Flash Crash — a savant who crashed the US stock market

    Liam Vaughan’s account of maths prodigy Navinder Sarao is a cautionary tale on modern finance

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
    Review
    Slowdown and Fully Grown — the case for slower growth

    Books by Danny Dorling and Dietrich Vollrath on the upside of economic slowdown in rich nations

  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    How durable is China’s capitalist model?

    The country’s economic system has many flaws — yet critics underestimate it at their peril

  • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
    Review
    Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    The economy has hit US white working classes hard — but Anne Case and Angus Deaton go beyond the evidence

  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    Raghuram Rajan
    Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’: scholarship without solutions

    The French economist’s data-driven analysis of inequality offers a flawed prospectus for change

  • Friday, 14 February, 2020
    Review
    More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

    Philip Coggan’s wide-ranging history of the global economy reveals an amazing, if complex, journey

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Review
    Liberalism at Large — how The Economist gets it right and spectacularly wrong

    Alexander Zevin examines the newspaper’s influence on liberal history — and its tendency to back the wrong horse

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    Review
    Extreme Economies — lessons from disaster zones

    What refugee camps and tsunami victims can teach us about the workings of an economy

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: critics’ picks

    FT writers and guests select their must-read titles

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