Alan Shipman studied economics at Cambridge in Wynne Godley's shadow, and realised how the subject had needed his insights on returning to  it after the Global Financial Crisis. Now a lecturer in economics at the Open University, his previous books include Capitalism Without Capital: Accounting for the Crash (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

1. Life Before Economics 1926-1955

2. Under Treasury Rules 1956-64

3. Short-term Forecasting

4. Public Expenditure

5. Planning, Tax Reform and Structural Change

7. Public Expenditure Revisited

8. Sector Balances and 'New Cambridge'

9. Balance-of-Payments, Deindustrialisation and Protection

10. Spectating on Thatcher and Major

11. "Macroeconomics"

12. The SSRC Showdown

13. Wilderness and Wisdom

14. Cassandra Across the Atlantic

15. The Long Road to Redemption

16. Monetary Economics and After

17. The True Self