10 best economics books

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King: £25, Little, Brown open image in gallery So used are we to the sight of the tanned and smooth Mark Carney playing the “rock star central banker” we have almost forgotten the man who proceeded him, the rather owlish Mr King. After the Storm by Vince Cable: £18.99, Atlantic open image in gallery Part memoir, part work of economics, Vince Cable’s latest is not as timely nor as accomplished as its prequel The Storm. The Globalization of Inequality by François Bourguignon, trans Thomas Scott-Railton: £19.95, Princeton University Press open image in gallery Much of the most powerful economic thinking seems to be coming from France these days. Between Debt and the Devil by Adair Turner: £18.25, Princeton University Press open image in gallery When he ran the now-defunct Financial Services Authority, during the great banking crisis of 2009, Adair Turner summoned up the courage to tell the world that much of what occurs in financial markets is “socially useless”, trading systems designed to shave the last shred of profit out of transactions fairly or not, legally or not, yielded little if anything for the common good.