Paschal Donohoe

This book is unlikely to meet the needs of a reader looking to take the first step in understanding the history and nature of economics

Peter Turchin draws on Big Data and predictive models to make a sharp case about over-production of elites and how the US is on road to instability

Daniel Chandler’s Free and Equal skilfully turns political philosophy into detailed policy proposals, while Rafaek Behr surveys the wreckage of post-Brexit Britain

Paschal Donohoe reviews new books by Erik Angner and Edmund Phelps

Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington attack all too readily an industry they present as a confidence trick whereby states and other actors outsource their decision-making

Reviews: The Fall of Boris Johnson by Sebastian Payne, Out of the Blue by Harry Cole and James Heale, and How to Build a Country That Works by Lisa Nandy

Author’s collection of essays with important themes uses stories about food to offer insights into economics

Much is missing from J Bradford DeLong’s history, writes the Minister for Finance, but the love of learning that permeates these pages makes it stand out

Book review: Paschal Donohoe finds this sweeping history of interest rates entertaining but too much of a polemic

Book review: Geoff Mulgan, a leading analyst of how deepening interdependence has affected governments, businesses and individuals, is frustratingly vague

Paschal Donohoe on a beautiful analysis of literary efforts to influence economic thinking

To predict the future, Hamish McRae should get his facts right about the present

Review: Oded Galor describes himself as the founding thinker behind Unified Growth Theory

Piketty marshals staggering quantities of information, but he also has blind spots

The Minister for Finance says this book offers a recipe for responding to climate change