In April 2007, a report produced by the International Monetary Fund concluded that the world economy was in great shape only for the biggest economic crisis sin

A leading economist trains a lens on his own discipline to uncover when it fails and when it works.

'It is written in clear English, without equations, and with plenty of charts to ground one’s understanding in the real world … The authors make a compellin

The industrialized world has long been rocked by economic crises, often caused by policy makers who are guided by ideology rather than cold, hard analysis. WRON

From the inability of wealth to make us happier, to our catastrophic blindness to the credit crunch, "Economyths" reveals ten ways in which economics has failed