James Bond spoof starring Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English, a lowly government clerk who suddenly finds himself promoted to the position of Britain's Number One International Spy. Sent into action after the crown jewels are stolen, English and his sidekick Bough (Ben Miller) soon begin to suspect billionaire Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). The plot thickens when the mysterious Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia) begins turning up in the most unexpected places.

Robert W. Clower has had a profound effect on the theory and practice of economics. The distinguished group of contributors to this book celebrates his seminal contribution to economic methodology and theory by providing key accounts of important themes in the area of money, markets and method. The volume begins with a number of papers dealing with Robert Clower's work and his views on methodology. The contributors then discuss Keynes's General Theory and its relationship to conventional Keynesian macroeconomic theory as well as the origins of the General Theory itself, a subject that has been central to Clower's writings. The analysis is then expanded to concentrate on how institutions matter in thin markets. Finally, the authors analyse ways in which adaptive behaviour influences the stability of markets in the context of trading relationships, repeated games and retail stores.

Letters from Lockdown comprises 12 weekly letters written by the Director of Westminster Abbey Institute during the Coronavirus lockdown, and three accompanying essays that give the deeply personal perspectives of a politician, a civil servant and a police officer as the crisis unfolds. The letters are addressed to the public servants trying to carry the nation through the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and were written to be a source of strength and support. As she wrote them, the author was unaware how events would unfold. Nevertheless, the 12-week period formed a narrative arc not unlike a classic 'hero's journey' and the letters show some similarities and differences between the classic plot and what the nation and its public servants had actually been through. The letters offer ways of strengthening public servants to make them ready, constant and enduring in their response to the needs of the nation. They speak of strengthening not just the soul of individual public servants but also of their institutions. The essays address not only the private and public struggles of public servants during the crisis but ask what, if anything, will change in our world as a result of the pandemic. They seek to equip public servants to respond to and shape emerging worlds and new needs.

The coordination of economic activities involves many dimensions. Yet many macroeconomists have tended to reduce the problem to a single-dimension, that of getting prices right. Classical or New Classical Economics, which embodies the view that coordination is best left to market, is distinguished formally from Keynesian economics (which depicts an economy in need of central guidance) almost entirely by its assumption that wages and prices are perfectly flexible. This volume brings together the author's key contributions to the development of macroeconomic theory. The essays record his attempts to deal with the coordination problems raised by Keynesian economics and the difficulty of modeling them in a way that meets the standards of rigor and coherence set by Walrasian general equilibrium theory. They range from reflections on the connections between Keynesian and Walrasian economics to nontechnical discussions on the development of macroeconomic ideas. Peter Howitt argues that this reduction of the coordination problem to sticky prices is at the root of the decline of Keynesian economics. Not only does it raise problems of legal coherence that Keynesians have not succeeded in addressing, but more fundamentally it is not very plausible. Though there is much evidence that wages and prices are indeed less than fully flexible, there is no good reason for attributing major coordination failures to the lack of flexibility. All students and scholars interested in the development of macroeconomic theory will find this a valuable and stimulating book.