Richard Davies
Books by Richard Davies
“This book is a series of rip-roaring tales about what you might classify as ‘informal’ economies in different contexts and the way that some of them work really well and some of them work really badly. The compare and contrast gives you real insights into what perhaps makes a formal, official economy work very well or very badly.” Read more...
The Best Economics Books of 2019
Diane Coyle, Economist
Interviews where books by Richard Davies were recommended
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey -
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell -
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
by Quinn Slobodian -
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Extreme Economies
by Richard Davies -
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg
The Best Economics Books of 2019, recommended by Diane Coyle
The Best Economics Books of 2019, recommended by Diane Coyle
The urgency of the challenges facing society has led to a wonderful supply of books by leading thinkers on a variety of pressing topics. Economist Diane Coyle, a professor at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, recommends her top five economics books of 2019.
