Essay | The Economist at 175

Liberalism: further reading

This essay benefited from the insights and assistance of a great many people. In particular, Alexander Zevin of City University of New York, author of a forthcoming independent history of this newspaper ("The World According to The Economist", to be published by Verso Books), was an outstanding guide to our history.

The essay has drawn on the following books and articles:

Books
“Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire”, by Duncan Bell. Princeton University Press, 2016

“Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System”, by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier. Penguin Books, 2017

“Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World”, by Paul Collier. Oxford University Press, 2013

“The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties”, by Paul Collier. Allen Lane, 2018

“Why Liberalism Failed”, by Patrick J. Deneen. Yale University Press, 2018

“The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843-1993”, by Ruth Dudley Edwards. Hamish Hamilton, 1993

“Liberalism: The Life of an Idea”, by Edmund Fawcett, Princeton University Press, 2014

“The New Urban Crisis”, by Richard Florida. OneWorld, 2017

“Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy”, by Robert H. Frank. Princeton University Press, 2016

“Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction”, by Michael Freeden. Oxford University Press, 2015

“Capitalism and Freedom”, by Milton Friedman. University of Chicago Press, 1962

“The Road to Somewhere”, by David Goodhart. C. Hurst & Co, 2017

“The Limits of the Market”, by Paul de Grauwe, Oxford University Press, 2017

“The Politics of Immigration: Contradictions of the Liberal State”, by James Hampshire. Polity Press, 2013

“Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946”, by Anthony Howe. Clarendon Press, 1997

“Free Trade Under Fire” (3rd edition), by Douglas Irwin. Princeton University Press, 2015

“The World America Made”, by Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

“The Jungle Grows Back”, by Robert Kagan. Pisces Books, 2018

“Who Owns the Future?”, by Jaron Lanier. Simon & Schuster, 2013

“AI Super-powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order”, by Kai-Fu Lee. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

“The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics”, by Mark Lilla. Harper, 2017

“The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality”, by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles. Oxford University Press, 2017

“The Breadstealers: The Fight against the Corn Laws”, by Norman Longmate. St Martin’s Press, 1984

“The Retreat of Western Liberalism”, by Edward Luce, Little Brown, 2017

“Has the West Lost It?”, by Kishore Mahbubani. Allen Lane, 2018

“Age of Anger: A History of the Present”, by Pankaj Mishra. Penguin Books, 2017

“The People vs Democracy”, by Yascha Mounk. Harvard University Press, 2018

“What is Populism?”, by Jan-Werner Müller. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

“Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters”, by Jesse Norman. Penguin Books, 2018

“Is the American Century Over?”, by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Polity Press, 2015

“Enlightenment Now: The Case for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress”, by Stephen Pinker. Allen Lane, 2018

“Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society”, by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl. Princeton University Press, 2018

"Bread for All: the Origins of the Welfare State”, by Chris Renwick. Allen Lane, 2017

“Factfulness”, by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund. Sceptre, 2018

“Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing”, by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane. Zed Books, 2017

“Where We Are: The State of Britain Now”, by Roger Scruton. Bloomsbury Press, 2017

“Counter-revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat”, by Jan Zielonka. Oxford University Press, 2018


Articles
“The London Economist and the high tide of laissez faire”, by Scott Gordon, 1955. Journal of Political Economy, December 1995

"The closing of the liberal mind", by John Gray. New Statesman, November 2016

The free-market welfare state”, by Samuel Hammond. Niskanen Centre, May 2018

“Liberal internationalism 3.0: America and the dilemmas of liberal world order”, by G. John Ikenberry. Perspectives on Politics, 2009

“The future of liberal world order”, by G. John Ikenberry. Japanese Journal of Political Science, September 2015

“The end of liberal international order?”, by G. John Ikenberry. International Affairs, January 2018

“Reluctant or liberal collectivists. The social liberalism of Keynes and Beveridge, 1922-1945”, by Tudor Jones. Journal of Liberal History 78, Spring 2013

"On labor mobility, economic growth and targeted programs", Lant Pritchett, Centre for Global Development, 2018

"Balanced migration: A progressive approach", by Harvey Redgrave. Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, March 2018

"Is unrestricted immigration compatible with inclusive welfare states? National institutions, citizenship norms and the politics of free movement in the European Union", by Martin Ruhs, University of Oxford

"Measuring immigrant assimilation in the United States", by Jacob L. Vigdor. Manhattan Institute, 2008

"Freeing the captured economy", Discussion in Cato Unbound, January 2018

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