Leigh is chief executive of Inon, an economics and software consultancy based in London, and heads Intellectual Business, a new think tank which explores analytic approaches to business and how to apply the principles of economics and the hard sciences in commercial environments. He also writes a blog on the economics of information and behaviour, Knowing and Making

Ascent and Exchange

When they set out to write these texts, neither author must have expected to create an especially political book. But for the first time in decades, opinions about the detailed management of the economy are intensely political, and any book, article or quotation on financial matters in the last few years is likely to be re-read in that light.