Making Money Work” argues that policymakers should once again make banks the centerpiece of the financial ecosystem.

I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but the thinkers who first advanced them often fade into the background.

We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public. Yet this boom in popular economics comes at a time when the ...

Princeton University Press; 584 pages; $99.95 and £84 An economics professor at Stanford ... Not for the faint-hearted, this book is provocative to economists and well-timed for an age of big ...