It’s an exciting day – the kick-off of what I think is the UK’s first Festival of Economics, taking place in Bristol tonight and tomorrow. There’s a fantastic line-up, including a number of authors of excellent books. So here’s the Festival bibliography:

David Smith [amazon_link id=”1781250111″ target=”_blank” ]Free Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics[/amazon_link]

John Kay [amazon_link id=”1846682886″ target=”_blank” ]Obliquity[/amazon_link]

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson [amazon_link id=”0230392547″ target=”_blank” ]Going South: Why Britain Will Have A 3rd World Economy by 2014[/amazon_link]

Daniel Stedman-Jones [amazon_link id=”0691151571″ target=”_blank” ]Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics[/amazon_link]

Geoff Andrews [amazon_link id=”0745327443″ target=”_blank” ]The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure[/amazon_link]

Lynsey Hanley [amazon_link id=”1847087027″ target=”_blank” ]Estates: An Intimate History[/amazon_link]

Vicky Pryce [amazon_link id=”184954400X” target=”_blank” ]Greekonomics: The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get It[/amazon_link]

Peter Marsh [amazon_link id=”0300117779″ target=”_blank” ]The New Industrial Revolution[/amazon_link]

Diane Coyle [amazon_link id=”0691156298″ target=”_blank” ]The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters [/amazon_link]and [amazon_link id=”1907994041″ target=”_blank” ]What’s The Use of Economics: Teaching the Dismal Science After the Crisis?[/amazon_link]

The hashtag for the events is #economicsfest and the podcasts will be online in a few days’ time.