This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Frontier: An Emerging Markets Story (Triskelion Books, £30) is a gripping chronicle of the period of booming ...

In good times and bad, colleges cite economic trends to justify their decisions. But do colleges operate with an understanding of economics? Sandy Baum, a nonresident senior fellow at the Center on ...

Steve Keen's latest book is succinct and wide-ranging. This book provides a clear direction for economics. Meaningful macroeconomic models must be based on reality. Equilibrium for modeling nonlinear, ...

During Black History Month, many people are recommending Black authors and promoting their books. When non-fiction books by Black authors are recommended in February, however, it is rare to see ...

A new book released this month argues that community colleges are uniquely positioned to drive economic growth and combat stubborn socioeconomic inequities. America’s Hidden Economic Engines: How ...

The rain was heavy for parts of last weekend in the Washington, D.C. area. Seeing it coming down in sheets, it got me thinking about how people used to live. How awful it must have been in the days of ...

“Home ec.” The words conjure images of high school girls concocting muffins, stitching aprons, dutifully preparing for life as wives and mothers. Forget all that. In her revelatory new book “The ...

The field of cultural economics is surprisingly short on research on the book market and on the activity of reading compared with other more recently invented media such as films and musical ...

There has always been something irresistible about advice in mathematical form. When, in the Book of Genesis, Joseph was plucked from prison to interpret the dreams of the Pharaoh, he offered some ...