Politics & Economics

In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everyth...

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren...

Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco P...

In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions mor...

In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the be...

In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve th...

The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will...

On 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss's childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most of ...

No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sough...

Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation mig...

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more t...

Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And...

On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule...

We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power and Profits, a few corporatio...

The past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if w...

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from thos...

Financial malpractice, we're told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gami...

A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, 10 Rules is full of insights on signs of p...

Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860...

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of bo...

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of th...

A 'dark knight' conflict between good and evil; control by elite puppet masters; nostalgia for a golden age: these are the core myths of populism. ...

From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its d...

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the ...

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful...

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite ...

Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy we...

Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Bar...

In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate ...

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting blood...

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a ...

To work is human, yet the world of work is changing fast, and in unexpected ways. With rapid advances in information technology, huge swathes of th...

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this e...

Steve Bannon in the United States. Aleksandr Dugin in Russia. Olavo de Carvalho in Brazil. All rising to positions of power in the past decade. All...

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over hal...