Econ Journal Watch is an online journal which looks at economics in an unusual and helpfully provocative manner. The current issue asks the question: Does economics need an infusion of religion or quasi-religious formulations? There is a really interesting essay by Nicholas Taleb and Rupert Read which argues that religion performs a useful risk management function by transmitting risk-control heuristics across generations.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .