Notes & insights

Books, articles and research worth reading, each with our assessment of what it argues and where it holds.

Method · Paper

Caldara and Iacoviello, Measuring Geopolitical Risk

Builds a newspaper-based index of geopolitical risk and tests it against investment and employment.

Economic development · Book

Acemoglu and Robinson, Why Nations Fail

Argues that institutions, rather than geography or culture, explain why national incomes diverge.

Political risk · Book

Tooze, Crashed

Traces how the financial crisis reshaped the political order across Europe and beyond.