Book of the week

The debate about how to raise economic growth begs a question, says Chris Dillow. “Is rapid growth possible even with the best feasible policies?” Since 1750, trend growth of much above 1% per year wa

Our Dollar, Your Problem An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and The Road Ahead Kenneth Rogoff Yale University Press, £25 For the past eight decades, the US dollar has been

Matthew Partridge: In your new book, The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World, you posit that president Donald Trump’s threats over tariffs are real, rather than a

Don’t rock the boat. Don’t stick your neck out. Don’t blow your own trumpet. These are all lessons Europeans absorb early, while the US economy runs on exuberance, enterprise and risk-taking. A tellin

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man

Ahead of the publication of an ambitious new account of the historical roots of Brexit, it is worth remembering ...