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The crisis of inaction
The Status Quo Crisis: Global Governance After the 2008 Meltdown, by Eric Helleiner. A guest review by Bill Allen The crisis in Eric Helleiner’s title is not something that has happened, but...
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UK bank profits are back to their pre-crisis peak
Earlier this week I attended the ONS’s regular Economic Forum, and the recent changes to the National Accounts provided one of the main subjects discussed. The slides included this one showing the old...
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Railways and plutocrats
This is a bit off-topic i.e. isn’t an economics book, but I enjoyed Iain Sinclair’s latest, London Overground: A Day’s Walk around the Ginger Line. It’s an absolutely characteristic dyspeptic take on...
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A tale of modern Russia – and London
The latest instalment in my holiday reading has been Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia. I’d started it on the train home from the bookstore...
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Life beyond shareholder value
The peerless Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) of the FT linked this morning to this Andy Haldane speech, which I’d only skimmed when he made it. The speech discusses the consequences for corporate...
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Other people’s money
Catching up with post-holiday stuff has slowed me down, but I finished John Kay’s new book, Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People? on a flight back from his native...
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Bankrupt banks
I’ve been browsing through a new book, Making Failure Feasible: How Bankruptcy Reform Can End Too Big to Fail, edited by Kenneth Scott, Thomas Jackons and John Taylor. The book is the product of a...
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How can financial services serve?
A 2010 book, Portfolios of the Poor, made a big impression on me because the researchers had taken great care to ask poor people (in Bangladesh, India and South Africa) in great detail how they managed...
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Power and legitimacy
Paul Tucker’s book Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State is a significant contribution to the literature about the trade-off between participatory...
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Banks versus business
The latest in my catch-up reading has been British Business Banking: The Failure of Finance Provision for SMEs by Michael Lloyd. This is obviously a bit niche but of great interest as the vacuum in...
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