Books

My new book on inflation (May 2025) is out!

Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers (2025, Norton)

Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli

You can buy a copy of Inflation in bookstores or online (on Norton, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others)

Endorsements:

"An essential dose of clear thinking on one of the most contentious issues in economic policy." - Adam Tooze (Columbia University)

"This wonderful book demystifies competing narratives about inflation to prepare you for a world in which winners and losers may have to deal with the price hikes caused by climate change and geopolitics." - Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)

"Understanding the recent rise and fall of inflation is essential. Inflation clearly analyzes pandemic-era inflation while making the compelling argument that the go-to tools of higher interest rates by central banks must be reconsidered." - Claudia Sahm (New Century Advisors)

"Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli convincingly argue that we are entering the age of supply-side driven inflation. As economic fragmentation increases, supply chains break, and economic coercion replaces competition. Inflation will prepare you for the new normal." - Branko Milanovic (CUNY)

"Inflation is a serious contender for the most misunderstood and weaponized issue in economics and politics. The authors do a great service to their readers by explaining what is at stake in the heated debates of recent years." - Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Austerity vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery (2017, Palgrave Macmillan)

Robert Skidelsky and Nicolò Fraccaroli

"In this excellent intellectual biography of the crisis, Skidelsky and Fraccaroli give us both the historical arguments, and the contemporary adaptations of these arguments, for Austerity and Stimulus. The politics of economic theory has never been so clearly exposed" - Mark Blyth (Brown University)

"This book is a veritable treasury of the key sources on the most controversial economic issue of our time - austerity. It is an absolutely essential reading for everyone who wants to understand what is going on with our economy and politics" - Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge University)

"In many European countries, and especially in the United Kingdom, the austerity policies followed since the financial crisis have led to political upheaval and are increasingly put into question. This book comes at the right time" - Paul De Grauwe (LSE)

Review in Financial Times. Written by Yuan Yang

Interview on the book

BOOK REVIEWS

Financial Times 

Austerity vs Stimulus by Robert Skidelsky and Nicolò Fraccaroli — hard times. (2017). Y. Yang.

Book Review: Austerity vs Stimulus. (2018). B. Casu Lukac.

The Independent

The UK is the only country that continues to believe austerity works. (2017). A.W. Smith

The Claremont Review of Books (Vol. XVIII, 1)

Stimulating Debate. (2018). S. Gregg.

Keynes Blog (in Italian and Spanish)

L’austerità espansiva e i suoi oppositori. (2018). Keynes Blog.

Pandora - Rivista di Teoria e Politica 

Austerity vs Stimulus di Robert Skidelsky e Nicolò Fraccaroli. (2017). L. Gobbi.

Survival - Global Politics and Strategy

Brief Notices - Economy. (2018).