The World is Curved
By David M. Smick
Portfolio, $26.95 (Marshall Cavendish, £18.99)

W hen he produced his history of the Great War, it was joked that Winston Churchill had written his autobiography and called it The World Crisis. David Smick, editor and founder of The International Economy magazine, has written his thoughts on global finance around extracts of his memoirs, and called it The World is Curved.