1. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout. The author uses published works on Louis Armstrong, and tape recordings privately made by Armstrong himself during the course of his life, to tell the story of one of the greatest musicians of the last century. If jazz is your thing, and you like Louis Armstrong, you… Read More »
1. Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera’s All the Devils Are Here 2. Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money 3. Michael Lewis’ The Big Short 4. Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom 5. Greg Ip’s The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World 6. Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance 7. Todd G. Buchholz’ New Ideas from Dead Economists 8.… Read More »
Delivered at Gresham College, London. The summary: Professor Niall Ferguson offers an evolutionary approach to financial history. He questions the impeding of ‘natural selection’ by keeping the financial dinosaurs alive through the life support of monetary injections: “without creative destruction, our economic system cannot be a healthy one.” The view that financial history could be… Read More »