There are certainly books I’ll have missed in my somewhat haphazard look through the catalogues. Previous days’ posts have looked at the offerings from some university presses. Today, here is a brief round up of economics books (and any others that appeal to me) from general publishers – again, it will be less than comprehensive. But there’s still going to be plenty to read this spring & summer. Happy New Year to all!

So, in no particular order, except for the first and last:

Digital Republic is by our Bennett Institute affiliate Jamie Susskind – digital tech and politics.

A few from the Penguin stable especially Allen Lane:

The Price of Time – Edward Chancellor -a history of interest rates

The Power Law – Sebastian Mallaby – about the venture capital business

A Pipeline Runs Through It – Keith Fisher – a history of oil

British Rail by Christian Wolmar – who surely knows all there is to know about railways

Bill Gates on How To Prevent the Next Pandemic (no microchips involved)

The World for Sale by Javier Blas & Jack Farchy, about commodity trading

And a reissue of a 1944 classic, Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

And some others:

The BBC: A People’s History – David Hendy (it is the BBC’s centenary year after all)

Money in One Lesson – Gavin Jackson

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard, about QE, will appeal to some readers.

Also on my list, The Hong Kong Diaries – Chris Patten – because I worked with him for some time at the BBC Trust.

Last but not least, a fantastic upcoming offering from my Perspectives series with London Publishing Partnership is Stephanie Hare on tech ethics: Technology is Not Neutral.

I’ll do two more look-ahead posts: Oxford University Press today and a number of non-university press publishers tomorrow.

Top of the OUP list for me has to be DIsorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by my dear colleague Helen Thompson. I read the draft – it’s fantastic, making sense of current geopolitical upheaval.

I’ll be very interested in Keith Tribe’s Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Disciplein 1850-1950 (although it’s a ridiculous price so I won’t be buying it.)

Given my past career, I’ll also be very interested to read Simon Potter’s history, This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain 1922-2022. (I have an article forthcoming in Philosophy about the need for a public service option in digital territory.)

Another history title of relevance to political economy issues is Rachel Bowlby’s Back to the Shops: The HIgh Street in History and The Future. The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham looks quite interesting, and is also open access. The well-known CIty guru Andrew Smithers has The Economics of the Stock Market out in March (although it doesn’t yet seem to have a page on the OUP website).