Martin Wolf
Chief economics commentator at the Financial Times; author of The Shifts and the Shocks (2014) and The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (2023).
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Recommends The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
My last book follows on directly from Brad's (though it was published earlier) and is another way of telling the same story, but it's more technical.
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Loved Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
It's a history of the last 150 years. There is lots in it that I absolutely love. It's very American. It's not American-focused, but it's a book an American would write. That's really important because America has made the world we live in. People in Europe and Britain don't want to accept that, but that's the reality. I mean that in every respect: culturally, economically, technologically, and so forth. The Industrial Revolution in Britain was incredibly important but since the late 19th century, everything has been dominated by America.
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Liked The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
So I like this book. I like the image of a narrow corridor as a way of thinking about how difficult the task of maintaining what many people in the contemporary world would think of as a civilized order is.
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Loved Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
It's the work of a real historian who has a very, very wide view and an exceptional knack for bringing everything together. He writes beautifully.
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Recommends Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
The book is a simple statement of that fundamental point. It's a very good statement of that case and had a lot of influence on my book, The Shifts and the Shocks.
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Blog Martin Wolf at the Financial Times His economics column, plus the FT podcasts he hosts
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