Book of the week

Global markets and the new illiberalism

How crime organizes the world

Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai Princeton, £25 I n finance the theory has long been that people are rational agents able to mak

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Matthew Partridge: It has now been nearly 25 years since you coined the term Brics for Brazil, Russia, India and China, and the four nations have embarked on very different trajectories. Which one do