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May 10, 2015 — No Comments ↓

Posted in 2007-08 Financial Crisis, History of economics Tagged with: financial crisis, Panic of 2008

This week Economic Principals appears on its website in a new guise. The redesign reflects some changes in the underlying WordPress software designed to make EP easier to read on tablets and smart phones. The Comment function that permitted a malware infestation in the winter is gone. I was never very comfortable with it anyway. Although EP appears online, it is a weekly column, not a blog. I have added a Letters page. If you have something substantive to say, send it along and I’ll put it up. The new look reflects a change in stance as well. Let me…

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Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics, by Robert Skidelsky (Yale, 2018; Penguin, 2019)

Living in Different Cultures, by Tamar Frankel (Fathom, 2019)

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War, by Archie Brown (Oxford, 2020)

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, by Gregory Zuckerman (Penguin),

Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, by Robert H. Frank (Princeton, January 2020)

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo (Norton)

Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty (Harvard, March 2020)

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, by Janek Wasserman (Yale)

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, by Nicholas Lemann (Farrar, Straus)

Free Enterprise: An American History, by Lawrence Glickman (Yale)

Rethinking the Theory of Money. Credit, and Macroeconomics: A New Statement for the Twenty-First Century, by John Smithin (Lexington Books)

Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys, by Vincent DiGirolamo (Oxford)

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Random House, 2019)

The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (Norton, 2019)

Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974, by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelitzer (Norton, 2019)

Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the Rest, by Angela Stent (Twelve, 2019)

China’s Crisis of Success, by William Overholt (Cambridge, 2017)

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, by James Grant (Norton, 2019)

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies, by César Hidalgo (Basic, 2015)

Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution, by Monica Prasad (Russell Sage, 2018)

Where Economics Went Wrong: Chicago’s Abandonment of Classical Liberalism, by David Colander and Craig Freedman (Princeton, 2019)

The Knowledge Economy, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Verso, 2019)

Losing Earth: A Recent History, by Nathaniel Rich (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019)

A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama’s Defining Decisions, by Reed Hundt (Rosetta, 2019)

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events, by Robert Shiller (Princeton, 2019)

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, by Binyamin Appelbaum (Little Brown, 2019)

Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth, Adam Pozen and Jeromin Zettlemeyer, editors (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2019)

Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life, by Ryan Patrick Hanley (Princeton, 2019)

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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (Norton, 2016), by Mervyn King

America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House, 2016), by Andrew Bacevich

Ronald Reagan: The Fortieth President (Times Books, 2016), by Jacob Weisberg

Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy (Basic Books, 2016), by Stephen Cohen and Bradford DeLong

Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (MIT, 2016) by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky

The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve (Princeton, 2016), by Peter Conti-Brown

The System Worked: How the World Stopped another Great Depression (Oxford, 2014), by Daniel Drezner

What Is Landscape? (MIT, 2015), by John Stillgoe

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (Chicago, 2016), by Deirdre McCloskey

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth (Penguin, 2016), by A.O. Scott

The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation (Chicago, 2016), by Morgan Ricks

China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed (Harvard, 2015), by Andrew Walder

Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray – and How to Return to Reality (Yale, 2010), by Jack Matlock

Hayek on Mill: The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings (Chicago, 2015), edited by Sandra Peart

Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist (Princeton, 2016), by L. Randall Wray

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015), by Bruce Schneider

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World (Simon & Schuster, 2015), by Steven Radelet

Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772 (Harvard, 2016), by Tyler Goodspeed

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers (Simon & Schuster, 2015), by Gillian Tett

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (Random House, 2016) by Mohamed El-Erian

The Promise of Party in a Polarized Age (Harvard, 2014), by Russell Muirhead

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016), by William Goetzmann

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives (Harper, 2016), by Jeffrey Garten

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard, 2002), by David Moss

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network (Princeton, 2015), by Shane Greenstein

Financial Risk Management for Dummies (Wiley, 2015), by Aaron Brown,

The Prize: Who's In Charge of America's Schools (Houghton Mifflin,2015), by Dale Russelhof

A History of Macroeconomics: From Keynes to Lucas and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2015), by Michel De Vroey

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (Norton, 2015), by Dani Rodrik

Learning By Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages and Wealth (Yale, 2015), by James Bessen

Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine (Oxford, 2015), by Kenneth Ludmerer

My Soul is Among Lions: Pages from the Breast Casncer Archives (Amazon, 2013), by Ellen Leopold

The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of American Defense Strategy (Basic, 2015), by Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts

The Promise of Party in a Polarized World (Harvard, 2014), by Russell Muirhead

Genealogy of American Finance (Columbia, 2015), by Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla

The Maze of Banking (Oxford, 2015), by Gary B. Gorton

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Norton, 2015), by Richard Thaler

When the Facts Change: Essays 1995-2010 (Penguin, 2015), by Tony Judt

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church (Public Affairs, 2014), by Alex Beam

Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy (Princeton, 2015), by Jeffrey Frieden

The Mystery of the Invisible Hand: A Henry Spearman Mystery (Princeton, 2014), by Marshall Jevons

The New Geography of Jobs (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) by Enrico Moretti

Age of Fracture (Harvard, 2011), by Daniel Rodgers