Ray Dalio, founder of one of the most successful hedge funds in the world, imparts his economic wisdom through a sequence of books

The Minister for Finance on Nature Capital: The Value of the World Around Us by Partha Dasgupta and Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth by Timothée Parrique, translated by Claire Benoit

These authors seek to understand the behaviour of economies and the influence they have on our societies

A glimpse into the new America and the restless and radical mood causing so much upheaval

Vivid and important collection of essays that corrects the caricatures and shows the value of public servants

Sumption’s achievements in the UK Supreme Court and work on the history of the Hundred Years’ War inform this timely collection

This is a work for those who want to understand the plumbing of government, not the grandeur and glamour of governing

Dariusz Wójcik’s book maps and visualises brilliantly an analysis of millions of financial data points

The eminence of Stiglitz is due to the range of his writing and academic excellence. This was recognised in a Nobel Prize for research on the impact of information on the operation of markets

Though the tone is light, this study of the creation of currency is serious and the academic rigour is clear

The complex matrix of growth, economics and society is mapped forcibly by Daniel Susskind, Maja Göpel and Fareed Zakaria

Jonathan White explores the interplay of support for democracy and promises for the future

An elegantly argued polemic with suggestions that merit serious consideration, although the analysis is occasionally incomplete

The selection of examples is an analytical strength, ranging from conflict in Sri Lanka, to the drugs policy of the US and the migration policy of the EU

This work reminds us that states and corporations are not powerless as we confront this vista of radical change