It’s the 2nd annual Festival of Economics in Bristol currently – webcast here if you can’t make it in person, hashtag #economicsfest. A number of the speakers have recent books out: Martin Ruhs is the author of [amazon_link id=”0691132917″ target=”_blank” ]The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration[/amazon_link].  Faisal Islam, in conversation at lunchtime today with Dan Franklin, wrote [amazon_link id=”1781854106″ target=”_blank” ]The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge[/amazon_link]. Tim Harford is speaking on his new book, [amazon_link id=”1408704242″ target=”_blank” ]The undercover Economist Strikes back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy[/amazon_link]. Others with recent-ish books are Stephen King ([amazon_link id=”0300190522″ target=”_blank” ]When The Money Runs Out[/amazon_link]), Stewart Lansley ([amazon_link id=”1908096292″ target=”_blank” ]The Cost of Inequality[/amazon_link]) and Nick Crafts ([amazon_link id=”0199663181″ target=”_blank” ]The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today[/amazon_link])

[amazon_image id=”1781854106″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge[/amazon_image]

[amazon_image id=”1408704242″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy[/amazon_image]

There are also three authors from the new Perspectives series launching tomorrow: Bridget Rosewell (Reinventing London); Julia Unwin (Why Fight Poverty?) and Andrew Sentance (Rediscovering Growth: After the Crisis).

The lovely Arnolfini bookshop is running the Festival shop so I shall no doubt be heading home tomorrow evening laden with more books.