Adrian Wooldridge Books in Order

Adrian Wooldridge traces the rise of educational psychology and intelligence testing in England. Examining reformers, experts, and schools, he explores how ideas about children’s abilities shaped education and why faith in psychological measurement later declined.

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge examine the theories, fashions, and personalities driving the management advice industry. Their skeptical survey distinguishes useful ideas from extravagant promises, helping readers assess the gurus whose prescriptions influence how businesses are run.

Micklethwait and Wooldridge investigate globalization through businesses, workers, and cultures around the world. Their reporting explores the opportunities and inequalities created by expanding international connections, asking how individuals and societies can respond to economic change reshaping everyday life.

Micklethwait and Wooldridge trace the growth of American conservatism and the people and organizations behind its influence. Their account examines voters, campaigners, and intellectual traditions to explain how the movement reshaped national politics and distinguished America from other democracies.

Micklethwait and Wooldridge investigate the revival of religion across a modernizing world. Through reporting on faith, politics, and economic change, they explore why greater prosperity and technological progress have not produced the widespread secularization many observers expected.

Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of management thinking and examines the consultants, theorists and fashionable ideas that shape business. Updating The Witch Doctors, he separates useful insights from empty promises while considering why organizations embrace successive management trends.

Adrian Wooldridge examines how technological change and emerging markets are reshaping companies and work. Drawing on his business columns, he considers disruptive innovation, economic stagnation, and the challenges facing institutions and workers caught between them.

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge trace America’s economic development from its colonial beginnings to global dominance. They examine innovation, productivity, and creative destruction, weighing the benefits and human costs of growth alongside threats to future prosperity.

The pandemic exposes weaknesses in Western governments that Micklethwait and Wooldridge compare with responses elsewhere, especially in Asia. They examine the capacity of states to protect their citizens and propose reforms intended to improve government performance and preparedness.

Adrian Wooldridge traces how meritocracy challenged inherited privilege and expanded opportunity through education and competitive selection. He examines its achievements and later distortions, arguing that renewing fair competition offers a better response than abandoning the ideal.

Wooldridge revisits the liberal tradition through its defense of individual rights, tolerance, and skepticism toward concentrated power. Facing contemporary polarization, he asks how its neglected ideas might renew the political center and offer a practical basis for reform.