Why advanced economies are struggling to build; how Britain can boost growth; plus books on inequality and poverty ...

The Technological Republic. By Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. Crown Currency; 320 pages; $30. Bodley Head; £25 ...

HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

"Few mothers are thrilled to learn that their daughter is dating an economist," says John Kay in the FT. Most people think economists are obsessed with interest rates, GDP statistics and other ...

$27.95. Behavioral economics sees the world as full of humans, not “econs,” in the language Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein popularized in Nudge, their seminal work in this area. Now Thaler has a new ...