Subject: Economic forecasting (Keywords)

This short primer distils Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, the book is full of insights on signs of p...

Ruchir Sharma shows why the economic 'mania' of the 21st century, with its unshakable faith in the power of emerging markets to continue growing at the astoundingly rapid and uniform pace of the last decade, is wrong. Which countries will rise to become the next economic stars?

Economics is broken. Its theories have created a world where millions of people live in extreme poverty, even as the personal wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. With human activity causing unprecedented degradation of the planet, climate change now poses an existential threat to everyon...

From the time it was uttered by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, 'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order. The illusion of inevitability has long been a bulwark of late capitalism, leaving us unable to imagine anything beyond its crises and inequalities. But...

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true - when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnecte...

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true - when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnecte...

From 'Focus on Intimacy at Scale' to 'Find Your Valuable Five Percent' and 'The Harder Your Core Customer Is to Reach, The Better You Will Do', Adam Davidson lays down the ground rules for success in the new economy. Drawing on inspiring case studies - a sweatshop-owner's daughter fighting for be...

Alec Ross weaves interviews with the world's most influential thinkers with fascinating stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models being implemented around the world, to propose a new social contract - one that benef...

Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. Russia ranks behind the US and China by traditional measures of power like GDP. Yet 25 years removed from its mid-1990s nadir, Russia has become a supremely disruptive force in world politics. How has Russia's resurrection happened and wh...

Edward Luce looks in fascinating detail at the economic problems that have brought America to a crossroads, from the impact of globalisation to the polarized politics of Washington, and from the future of innovation to the uses and abuses of history.