Book reviews
Book notes: Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices are Determined, by Lasse Heje Pedersen
A condensed picture of hedge funds’ operations and strategies
Book notes: The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC, by Richard Roberts and David Kynaston
A weighty tome, commissioned by HSBC to commemorate its 150th anniversary
Book notes: Money and Trade Wars in Interwar Europe, by Alessandro Roselli
A book that should be compulsory reading for all those who are interested in the current crisis in the euro area
Book notes: Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain 1951–1959, by William A Allen
A fascinating account of British monetary policy in the 1950s
Book notes: Smart Money, by Andrew Palmer
A bold author who takes the side of financial wizards in the post-2008 world
Book notes: The media and financial crises, by Steve Schifferes and Richard Roberts
A fascinating book, which gives a very different perspective on the financial crisis
Book notes: Hall of mirrors, by Barry Eichengreen
A comparison of the Global Finance Crisis and the Great Depression
Book notes: Don’t start from here, by David Shirreff
A pointed, passionate plea for a simpler banking system
Book notes: Emerging Africa, by Kingsley Moghalu
Africa is no basket case, but neither is it poised to follow China and India, says Moghalu
Book notes: European Spring, by Philippe Legrain
Ambitious and accessible, this book's take on events is provocative
Book notes: Sovereign debt management, by Rosa María Lastra and Lee Buchheit
An immensely valuable compilation of contributions by lawyers and economists
Book notes: What Have We learned? Macroeconomic Policy After the Crisis, by George Akerlof, Olivier Blanchard, David Romer and Joseph Stiglitz
This book brings together the great and the good of the economics profession
Book notes: Finding Equilibrium, by Till Düppe & Roy Weintraub
An unusual book that describes the early mathematisation of economics
Book notes: Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters, by Walter Friedman
A fascinating book that crosses the traditional boundaries between economic and cultural history
Book notes: GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, by Diane Coyle
A whistle-stop tour of the development of GDP
Book notes: Alexandre Lamfalussy, by Christophe Lamfalussy, Ivo Maes and Sabine Peters
A fascinating account of the life and career of a great European
Book notes: The Dollar Trap, by Eswar S Prasad
A lively analysis on currency wars in the wake of the financial crisis
Book notes: Deliberating American Monetary Policy, by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
This book tries to understand how monetary policy is decided in the US
Book notes: Mass flourishing, by Edmund Phelps
A recommended read for reflecton on modern life
Book notes: The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting
A review of Alan Greenspan's latest book
Book notes: Reflections on Global Finance: Selected Essays from SSgA’s Official Institutions Group 2002–2013
A review of John Nugée's latest book
Book notes: Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
A review of Charles Calomiris and Stephen H Haber' latest book
Book notes: Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914
A review of Richard Roberts' latest book
