(Allen Lane, 496pp, £30)
‘It is not too much of a stretch to see Martin Wolf, the ‘s chief economic commentator, as a modern Marx,” wrote Bill Emmott in. ‘He, too, is an economist forever looking for the bigger political and social picture, as well as for the crises that may shape it. But unlike Marx, he does so without relish. And in his fine new book […] his principal concern is with democracy rather than capitalism.’