Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy by Daniel Altman Macmillan £12.99, 287 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39

If reading any of the many books on globalisation left you asking more questions than before you started, Connected is for you. It touches on many of the right issues: the rise of China, global current account imbalances, economic development, political stability and financial markets, to name a few. But ultimately it explains the basics, rather than resolving the big debates.