Matthew Dancona

What maps will guide us through 2009?

I am struck by the absence of philosophical route-maps out of the current financial crisis: a subject I addressed in my Sunday Telegraph column this weekend. Compare and contrast the Seventies, when the Tories had the inspiration of Hayek and Friedman and the texts that poured out of the CPS and IEA. I recently asked George Osborne what he was reading on this subject and he recommended The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It, the most recent book by the Yale economist Robert Shiller. Fair enough. But what books and other inspirations would CoffeeHousers recommend as navigation guides for 2009?

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