World leaders missed chance to tackle climate change, says economist

Nicholas Stern tells the Hay festival the global economic crisis was a perfect opportunity to make progress on climate change – and we missed it

Joseph Stiglitz: ‘GDP per capita in the UK is lower than it was before the crisis. That is not a success’

Nobel prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz is the world’s foremost critic of economic and political inequality. He thinks the lessons of the global crash are being ignored, and he’s not much taken with the UK’s recovery either…

The in-flight magazine with serious literary aspirations

United Airlines’ Rhapsody magazine features the likes of Joyce Carol Oates and Anthony Doerr. All you have to do to read it is pony up for a first-class ticket

Game on: after Marvel’s Avengers, Nintendo’s stars could be next to hit the big screen

The man behind Avengers: Age of Ultron has hopes of creating another unbeatable movie team with Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong and co

Original Rockers by Richard King review – a wonderfully evocative tribute to a record shop

This history of Bristol’s erstwhile independent record store Revolver is a bittersweet homage to a hallowed place

One man’s quest to meld Adam Smith and Marx – by creating an Uber for jobs

Wingham Rowan wants to harness technology to make zero-hours culture less exploitative. Will his project improve our lives – or is it part of the problem?

The economy: inflating in a negative fashion

This week’s inflation data may see the rate dip below zero for the first time since 1960. But don’t call it ‘deflation’

Colour analysis: fashion’s search for the perfect shade

Colour Me Beautiful’s analysts have been helping people find a style that suits them for 35 years. So what’s the difference between ‘cool’ and ‘deep’? And does ‘khaki’ always = ‘death’?

Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey Lieberman review – genial and triumphalist

This history of (American) psychiatry by a high-ranking insider is ultimately too partial and limited in scope

BBC Films reach 25th anniversary with Armando Iannucci’s David Copperfield

Dickens adaptation from In the Loop director announced to coincide with BBC’s celebration of milestone for its successful feature film arm

When Yanis Varoufakis stepped up, so did Zed Books…

The speed with which a London publisher reacted when one of its authors became the Greek finance minister tells us a lot about the power of digital technology

Michelle Mone of Ultimo: ‘In business you have got to have balls of steel’

Michelle Mone, founder of Ultimo, has published her autobiography My Fight to the Top, a straight-talking account of her journey from teenage mother to one of the country’s most successful female entrepreneurs

The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC by David Kynaston and Richard Roberts review – exhaustive and exhausting

This account of the bank’s journey from relative obscurity in Hong Kong to global omnipresence could have dished more dirt on HSBC’s bosses

France’s ‘king of manuscripts’ held over suspected pyramid scheme fraud

Prized collection assembled by Gérard Lhéritier, who ‘turned paper into gold’, includes De Sade’s manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom and Louis XVI’s final testament

Fifty Shades of Grey set for $110m global debut as France gives film a 12 certificate

Sam Taylor-Johnson’s adaptation of the EL James erotic novel is set to dominate the box office over the Valentine’s Day weekend, as director suggests she may not return for sequel after all