Book Reviews
August 19, 2021
Edward Carter: “Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve” Eds. Luk Bouckaert & Steven C. van den Heuvel
This book is a collection of eighteen separate but thematically connected papers which were given at an international academic conference in Belgium in May 2018...
Book Review
May 4, 2021
By Anne Devlin
“Reimagining Capitalism” by Rebecca Henderson
Reimagining Capitalism: How business can save the world (published 2020) covers some of the same group as Mayer’s work. Rebecca Henderson is a staunch believer...
Anne Devlin: “Reimagining Capitalism” By Rebecca Henderson
Reimagining Capitalism: How business can save the world is a very didactic, easy to read book. Unfolding like a captivating lecture, it is highly structured...
Book Review
March 19, 2021
Richard Godden: “Capitalism and Democracy” by Thomas Spragens
Capitalism and Democracy (published 2021) should provide a good introduction to the issues that underlie contemporary disagreements about the role of the market and of...
Book Reviews
March 19, 2021
Richard Godden: “Capitalism and Democracy” by Thomas Spragens
Capitalism and Democracy is a short book and, as Tomas Spragens admits, it does not contain “a great deal of cutting-edge scholarship” (page vii). Nonetheless...
Richard Godden: “Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance”, by Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely
Ken-Hou Lin is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Megan Tobias Neely is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Stanford...
Richard Turnbull: Is There A Divinely Ordained Economic System?
Graeme Leach, formerly the chief economist at the Institute of Directors, has done us a great service with his expositions on ‘Thoughts on a biblical...
Richard Turnbull: The Morality of the Trade-offs between Health and Economics
For the more libertarian among us, not least economic libertarians, the lifting of the lockdown cannot come quickly enough. Others are either fearful of the...
Richard Godden: “The Wolf at the Door” by Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
The publication of yet another left of centre book asking “What has gone wrong with American capitalism and what should be done to fix it?”...
Richard Godden: “The Wolf at the Door” by Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
The Wolf at the Door by Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro (published 2020) also comes from a left of centre perspective and is also commendably...
Book Reviews
April 21, 2020
By Brian Griffiths
Lord Griffiths: “The Future of Capitalism” by Sir Paul Collier
The Future of Capitalism tackles one of the big issues of our time. Its impressive author, Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA is a distinguished member...