I write book reviews, every quarter or so, for the London-based publication Central Banking. Most of the books are about some aspect of central banking or macroeconomic policy. With a suitable lag, I will (gradually) include here links to the reviews as submitted (almost always very close to the final published form).
Ulrich Bindseil, Central Banking before 1800: A Rehabilitation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 322 pages, Review April 2020
Jonathan Ashworth, Quantitative Easing: The Great Central Bank Experiment, Agenda Publishing,
2020, 176 pages Review February 2021
Paul Tucker, Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2022, Review November 2022
Michael Lewis, Going Infinite, Allen Lane, 272 pages, 2023, Review April 2024
The following review was published in New Zealand Economic Papers, online 11 February 2025
Review of Steven Hamilton & Richard Holden, Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How We Crushed the Curve but Lost the Race, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2024, 240pp
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