Book Review: The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by...
In The Signal and the Noise, the New York Times’ political forecaster and statistics guru Nate Silver explores the art of prediction, detailing […]
View ArticleBook Review: To Save Everything Click Here: The Folly of Technological...
Technology, Evgeny Morozov proposes, can be a force for improvement – but only if we abandon the idea that it […]
View ArticleBook Review: The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers...
America currently has the most inequality and the least equality of opportunity among the developed countries, writes Nobel Prize-winning economist […]
View ArticleBook Review: 10 Billion by Stephen Emmott
10 Billion aims to take a dramatic look at the challenges we face today, from over-population to energy wars, to […]
View ArticleBook Review: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
As one of the last remaining societies in the Western hemisphere with a strictly oral culture, the Romani people have […]
View ArticleBook Review: Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies
Thrive explores the new effective solutions to the misery and injustice caused by mental illness. It describes how successful psychological […]
View ArticleBook Review: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Reviewer Adam Oliver finds that Richard Thaler’s new book, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics, covers the core concepts of behavioural economics, but finds […]
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What Have You Been Reading in 2015 on LSE Review of Books?
As 2016 beckons, we look at the most popular reviews of 2015 on LSE Review of Books. Image Credit: Bratislava New Year Fireworks (Ondrejk) Most Read of 2015: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural...
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LSE Lit Fest 2016: ‘More’s Utopia – and more utopias’ by Michael Caines
Today, Monday 22nd February, is the beginning of the 8th LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival. To mark the five hundred year anniversary of Thomas More’s formative work, the theme of this year’s...
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Book Review: The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of our Ordinary Lives...
Authored by Helen Pearson, The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of our Ordinary Lives concerns British birth cohort studies: a unique set of longitudinal studies that commenced in 1946, tracking...
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Reading List: 8 Must-Read Books on Religion and the Public Sphere
Image Credit: Faith (Steff CC2.0) Last month, June 2016, the LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog launched, exploring the place and role of religion in British public life today. To celebrate the...
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Book Review: Why Aren’t They Shouting? A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers...
In Why Aren’t They Shouting? A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis, Kevin Rodgers, former global head of Deutsche Bank’s foreign exchange, offers a lively account of the...
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Book Review: A Fiery and a Furious People: A History of Violence in England...
In A Fiery and Furious People: A History of Violence in England, James Sharpe draws on a wide range of primary source materials to give the reader a vivid insight into England’s criminals and criminal...
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LSE Lit Fest 2017 Book Review: Age of Anger: A History of the Present by...
How can we explain the apparent rise in hatred in societies around the world? In Age of Anger: A History of the Present, Pankaj Mishra offers a take on our current predicament by tracing increased...
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Book Review: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the...
In Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, investigative journalist Jane Mayer reveals how a elite group of plutocrats have effectively subjected the US...
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Book Review: Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts...
In Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier set out to offer solutions to the flawed system of refugee management that has gained increasing attention through the...
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Book Review: The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
With The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis gives an autobiographical account of his experience of homophobia and economic inequality growing up in Hallencourt, a village in the north of France where many live...
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Book Review: Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World by Jamie Bartlett
In Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World, Jamie Bartlett probes into the worldviews and lives of individuals, groups and movements who are seeking to change the way we live now and examines their...
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Book Review: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by...
In White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg traces the historical emergence and instantiation of ‘poor white trash’ as a chastised category within the US social...
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Long Read Review: Deplorable Me: The Alt-Right Comes to Power by J.A. Smith
J.A Smith reflects on two recent books that help us to take stock of the election of President Donald Trump as part of the wider rise of the ‘alt-right’, questioning furthermore how the left today...
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