Economics

Books

• Britain for Sale: British Companies in Foreign Hands – Alex Brummer

• How Do We Fix This Mess?: The Economic Price of Having it All, and the Route to Lasting Prosperity – Robert Peston

• Made in Britain: How the Nation Earns its Living – Evan Davis

• How Much is Enough: The Economics of the Good Life – R & E Skidelsky

• Keynes: The Return of the Master – Robert Skidelsky

• How the West was Lost: 50 Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead – Dambisa Moyo

• Winner Takes All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for Us – Dambisa Moyo

• Dead Aid – Dambisa Moyo

• The Globalisation Paradox: Why Global Markets, States and Democracy Can’t Co-exist – Dani Rodrik

• The Storm – Vince Cable

• The Future of Money (World Class Thinking on Global Issues) – O Chittenden & V Cable

• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty – A Banerjee & E Duflo

• Meltdown – Paul Mason

• What Happened?  – H Pym & N Kocchan

• Fool’s Gold – Gillian Tett

• Lords of Finance, 1929, the Great Depression and the Bankers who Broke the World – Liquat Ahamad

• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 – Paul Krugman

• New Keynesian Economists – J. Stiglitz; P Krugman et al

• Losing Control: The emerging threats to the West’s Prosperity – Stephen D King

• Capitalism 4.0: the Birth of a New Economy – Anatole Kaletsky

• The End of the Free Market – Ian Bremmer

• The Subprime Solution – Robert Shiller

• The Dragon and the Elephant: China and India and the New World Order – David Smith

• The Age of Instability: The Global Financial Crisis and What Comes Next – David Smith

• Fantasy Island: The Gods that Failed: how Blind Faith in Markets has Cost us our Future – L Elliott & D Atkinson

• Crisis Economics – Nouriel Roubini

• The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford

• Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure – Tim Harford

• Why Globalisation Works – Martin Wolf

• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet – Jeffery Sachs

• Making Globalisation Work – Joseph Stiglitz

• The Silent Takeover: IOU – The Debt Threat, Noreena Hertz

• The Great Crash – J K Galbraith

• The Affluent Society – J K Galbraith

• Sex, Drugs and Economics – Diane Coyle

• The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters – Diane Coyle

• The Economics of Enough – Diane Coyle

• Happiness: Lessons from a New Science – Richard Layard

• Free to Choose – M & R Friedman

• The Truth about Markets – John Kay

• Everlasting Light Bulbs – John Kay

• Critical Mass – Philip Ball

• Thinking Strategically – Dixit & Nalebuff

• The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life – A.K. Dixit & B.J Nalebuff

• Game Theory at Work – James Miller       

• China Inc – Ted Fishman    

• Little Book of Big Ideas – Economics, M Forstater  

• Fooled by Randomness – N Nicholas Taleb

• The Black Swan – N Nicholas Taleb

• Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen

• The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier       

• The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature – Paul Collier        

Journals

• Hodder A-level Economics Review

• Free subscription to the Financial Times

• Free access to The Economist via Hertfordshire Libraries

• Issues Online: Economics and Welfare issues

https://freakonomics.com/ 

Websites

• Resources for Economics on the Internet

• 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy — a podcast about design, technology, history, business and politics

• Freakonomics - recommended podcasts  

• CNN Business

• EconTalk podcast

There are blogs/videos of the following economists that may be useful on a wide range of topics. Just search for:

Paul Collier
Ha-Joon Chang
Paul Krugman

For models of the UK economy, virtual tours of other economies, practice papers and guidance notes aimed at AS level try:

• www.tutor2u.net

• Economic Review

• London Review of Books

• Macroeconomic blogs

• www.tradingeconomics.com/

• www.economicshelp.org/

For development indicators and starting to look at the issues involved in development economics

• World Trade Organisation – www.wto.org

• United Nations Development Programme – www.undp.org

• World Bank – www.worldbank.org

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – www.unctad.org

• Oxfam – www.oxfam.org

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum 

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