Raghuram Rajan's Faultlines won the Financial Times/Goldmans business book of the year prize. It was reviewed on this blog a while ago. I thought it was a terrific read.

The marvellous Adam Shaw interviewed a bookseller on Radio 4's Today programme who said there's a big public appetite at present for books about finance and the economy. I noticed a large section of the new Foyle's in Westfield labelled 'popular economics'. The same goes for talks: I'm myself speaking at a couple of sessions about pop economics writing – at a conference on 'Economics Made Fun' at Erasmus University in Rotterdam in December, and at a session at the American Economic Association meetings in Denver in January.