White has retired from that role, but the BIS continues to produce an eminently readable report, if to my mind it is too dismissive of the risks of deflation, most notably in the eurozone.
"I did deliberately aim the book at the general reader," says Piketty as we begin our conversation, "and although it is obviously a book which can be read by specialists too, I wanted the information here to be made clear to everyone who wants to read it.' And indeed it has to said that Capital in the Twenty-First Century is surprisingly readable.
Old formats of documents that we've created or presentations may not be readable by the latest version of the software because backwards compatibility is not always guaranteed".
In The Consolations of Economics, Lyons, now a veteran among City economic analysts, provides a most readable account of decades of economic policies and events, and his subtitle, How We Will All Benefit from the New World Order, is a welcome counterblast against the prevailing orthodoxy.
He had a succinct and readable style which he perfected when writing for the Economist in the early 1960s.
The judges said the Guardian had relaunched in its new Berliner format with enormous panache, producing a sharp, readable, quirky and literate paper.
It should really be called "Los Angeles without a Car" which is his experience of the place... ...... jimlevy recommended Harvey Mudd's long poem The Plain of Smokes (1982): "A literary but very readable piece in 3 parts.
But if you really wonder why Israel is building its wall, and want to understand its human consequences, you would do far better to invest in Isabel Kershner's readable, compassionate and thoroughly fair "Barrier".
If their final report is half as readable as the 9/11 one, it, too, should be a bestseller.
