The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor – Good in the first one-third, but after that, stale and repetitive

Home Individual and Family Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques The Price of Time  Review: The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor, Penguin, ISBN: 9781802060157, Pages 432 I am a big fan of the Chancellor’s first foray in financial history. In 1999, Chancellor published Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, which made the…

The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization

Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization by Richard C. Koo, April 2018, John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, Pp 320 “The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization” by Richard…

A Crisis of Beliefs

Home Individual and Family Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility Book Review: A Crisis of Beliefs – Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility, $29.95, Pages 264, 2018 “A Crisis of Beliefs” by Prof. Nicola Gennaioli and Prof. Andrei Shleifer marks an important development in finance research. In…

Energy and Civilization: A History

Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Energy and Civilization: A History Book Review: Energy and Civilization – A History, Paperback, $19.95, Pages 568, November 2018 “Energy and Civilization: A History” is most likely close to 40th book by Prof. Vaclav Smil, who can be considered one of the most influential writers of our time.…

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Reviews & Critiques Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism; Quinn Slobodian; Hardcover; 400 Pages; Harvard University Press; March, 2018. The book present the history of neoliberalism from the days of World War I and disintegration…