The Economic Government of the World is a tour de force. It lets us see the evolving architecture of global economic governance over the last hundred years - the various architects and the designs they favoured, the scaffolding going up (and down), the technicians responsible for fitting out the floors, and the cracks emerging in the walls and foundations. Both in terms of chronological scope and thematic range, I know of no book like it. It is a hugely ambitious and timely work.

Martin Daunton's history of global economic government is rigorous, engaging and astonishing in its range. It shows why any arrangement of the international economic system unavoidably involves political compromise - and concludes with a wise vision of "messy multilateralism" as a path out of our current crisis. A brilliant and important book.

Daunton's magisterial history is an urgent reminder of the sources and dangers of economic and financial disorder, revealing the interconnections between trade, money, population and development and the hard-fought struggles of leading capitalist democracies to embed the lessons of the past in international institutions. With our world at a critical juncture, the book is a chilling reminder of the risks we face, while offering a positive vision of the way forward.

[A] capacious and timely history... Offering us a realistic assessment of what American-led governance of the world economy actually entails, Daunton's account is essential reading. Postheroic and disillusioned, this is a history for our times.

This new book is a history of the institutions and individuals who sought to manage the global economy over the last century. It is a huge topic, and a big book – but readers need not be discouraged as Daunton makes the story accessible and absorbing, explaining how successive orders begin to fail, break down (often painfully) and then are hesitantly replaced, with the succeeding order modified and adapted to changing circumstances until it, too, begins to weaken.

powerful and comprehensive ... will doubtless prove to be a valuable resource for students ... This book is filled with walk-on characters and replete with delicious examples of how badly prominent historians,, economists and political scientists got things wrong

Part thriller, part warning from history, part social diary, Champagne Football is a forensic and often tragicomic investigation into the biggest story in Irish sport. It's a fantastic read

Fantastic ... The best book I've ever read about Irish football

A damming account ... brilliantly detailed

Jaw-dropping

One of the most hotly-anticipated sport books of the year

A jaw-dropping story ... brilliant

Essential reading

Compelling and often side-splittingly hilarious

An absolutely extraordinary book

Stellar work

An extraordinary story of what happens when proper governance doesn't exist

An astonishing exposé

An instant classic, one of the all-time great Irish sports books ... Terrific

A masterpiece

Remarkable. The desperate story of Irish football but also a book about how Ireland works. Outstanding

Utterly COMPELLING ... I can't decide if Delaney is a machiavellian mastermind or a lucky chancer

Made my blood boil

Absolutely superb ... Good old fashioned gumboot journalism and a rollicking good read

Fantastic ... A real page-turner

The Irish sports book of the year

Excellent ... includes staggering detail

Astonishing ... It reads like an outrageous work of fiction with a scarcely believable cast of characters

Brilliant ... Easily the Irish sports book of the year

The most important book ever written about Irish sport ... This is the must-read of 2020

Astonishing ... One of the most important books published in this country. If you wanted to change Ireland, you would need to read this book

A monumental piece of writing and investigation, a work that will go down as Irish sporting history's Woodward & Bernstein moment