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Economics

June 2026

  • The Gherkin in the City of London.

    The Common Good Economy by Mariana Mazzucato review – how can Labour really turn things around?

    It’s not enough to wish for growth; economic success requires a sense of purpose, according to this academic

April 2026

  • The London skyline from the Thames Barrier, London.

    Book of the day
    The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review – the hidden hand of private equity

  • Robert Skidelsky smiling at a desk in front of wooden shelves of books

    Lord Skidelsky obituary

March 2026

  • The bronze statue of Adam Smith on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, 20 February 2026.

    The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth

    Editorial: On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth

February 2026

  • Composite: Artwork by Guardian Design. Source Photographs by AFP/Getty Images/AP/Reuters/EPA/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age – podcast

    Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered

    By Robert P Baird. Read by James Sobol Kelly
    Podcast48:19

January 2026

  • $100 bills

    Book of the day
    Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough review – a jaw-dropping exposé of money laundering

    From handbags to drug gangs to central banks – one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crime
  • Clockwise from top left ; Shipbuilding in China, nurse with PPE gear, Chinese wind farm, T34 tanks in Red Square, President Donald Trump, Adam Tooze, traders during the 2000s financial crisis, President Xi Jinping.

    The long read
    The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

    The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered
  • Mario.

    Book of the day
    The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

    From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishing

December 2025

  • Potosí and the Cerro Rico, Bolivia.

    Book of the day
    Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives

  • City in the sky… Chicago.

    The Land Trap by Mike Bird review – ground down

August 2025

  • Lord Desai discussing currency exchange rates on Bloomberg Television in 2016.

    Lord Desai obituary

  • ‘Progress propaganda’: Adam and Eve in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

    Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald review – humanity’s greatest myth?

July 2025

  • David Boyle, with the Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex, in the background, near his home in Steyning, 2024

    David Boyle obituary

    Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing

May 2025

  • The Nord superyacht in Hong Kong, China.

    Book of the day
    The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos review – inside the world of the ultrarich

  • The Charging Bull statue, New York City.

    Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics

March 2025

  • A demonstrator outside the Capitol in Washington DC.

    Book of the day
    Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

    The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turning

January 2025

  • Gary Stevenson in Canary Wharf, London.

    ‘I was a multimillionaire, I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was unhappy’: the ups and downs of a supertrader

    Gary Stevenson grew up poor, got rich in the City – then found himself wrestling with depression. Now he says he’s the only person on the left who really understands the British economy – and the people who wield the power

December 2024

  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the annual Kmart wishing tree event at Parliament House in Canberra

    Anthony Albanese’s reading list: which books and essays deserve the PM’s time this summer?

    At the end of each year, Grattan Institute compiles a list of must-reads for the prime minister. Here’s what it recommends in 2024

November 2024

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer.

    ‘We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance

  • David Graeber.

    ‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber

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