From Post-Autistic Economics Review, Dani Rodrik (Harvard): World Too Complex For One-Size-Fits-All Models. A review of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda. A review of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade by Rachel Louise Snyder. Martin Wolf on the dangers of living in a zero-sum world economy. Economics as eugenics: Philip Jenkins reviews Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. What pendulums do: A review of The Mind and the Market: Capitalism and Modern European Thought by Jerry Muller. From TAP, an article on the conservative origins of the sub-prime mortgage crisis: Everything you ever wanted to know about the mortgage meltdown but were afraid to ask. From LRB, Cityphilia: John Lanchester on the credit crunch. An interview with Richard Bookstaber, author of A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation. From TLS, more on Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence.
