Articles

16.04.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

During this global economic crisis, it is often said that one consequence could be a reversal of globalisation, a revival of state intervention, even a...

14.04.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

To a visitor, Thailand can seem such a peaceful place, where Thais greet you by putting their hands together as if in prayer. Admittedly, most tourists see the...

04.04.09 Publication: Daily Telegraph

Committee meetings are not occasions from which grand, radical solutions can be expected to emerge. But it is nevertheless important to hold them, so that...

29.03.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

At this stage of the global recession, should we be getting more pessimistic or more optimistic? Barely six months into the true economic shock that followed...

26.03.09 Publication: The Guardian

Given their lack of fiscal room to manoeuvre, Brown and Darling should take RBS and Lloyds/HBOS into full public ownership Can this truly be called a...

05.03.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

If you were planning to visit Tibet this month, then you had better think again. It is closed. Foreign visitors have been banned, amid a big security clampdown...

20.02.09 Publication: The Guardian

The economic suffering here has been harsh and long, but at last political change is coming In the race to report the worst economic contraction among rich...

15.02.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It feels like a slow-moving Greek tragedy, destined to end in disaster. But let us be optimistic: perhaps it will turn out to be a demonstration of clever...

03.02.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Everyone knows that this is a global recession, in which virtually all countries are suffering. Certainly, all the rich industrial countries of Western Europe,...

17.01.09 Publication: Corriere della Sera

There are two dimensions on which Germany´s new 50 billion euro fiscal package should be judged. The first is economic: is the package the right thing to...

10.01.09 Publication: Newsweek

Hard economic times will be politically risky for many countries, bringing populism, protectionism, mass protests, internal strife, revolution and even perhaps...

03.01.09 Publication: The Guardian

“What, pray, is all the fuss about?” asked a sage columnist in these pages on the first anniversary of the credit crunch (“Crisis, what crisis?”,...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

Political attitudes to inequality are thus, as I have argued, going to change more, and more sustainably, than are corporate attitudes to that issue. The...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

The global economic recession of 2007-2009 proved to be both unusual and remarkable. It was unusual, first of all, in its global reach: previously, there has...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

These are challenging times, indeed. We can count ourselves fortunate that the vast financial crash of 2007-09, centred on America and Europe, has not caused a...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

It is tempting, and very common, at times of great shocks and crises, to proclaim that the world has utterly changed, that it will never be the same again....

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

The great recession of 2007-09 looked as if it would lead to a continual fall in the oil price, as demand for this "black gold" slumped. But instead, markets...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

It can all be blamed on Karl Marx. More than 150 years ago, that heavily bearded German-born revolutionary economist was living in London, working in the...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

If we can trust the economic statistics, then the global economic crisis of 2007-09 has come to an end. As 2010 began, output was rising again in Japan, the...

01.01.09 Publication: Voice

The distinction between "manufacturing" and "services" does not really tell us much, about value, living standards and long-term prosperity. In America during...

31.12.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

To some people, currencies are a national virility symbol. So the rapid decline of the British pound, in effect to parity with the euro, must be a national...

24.12.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

How bad do you think the recession is going to be? How long will it last? Those are the two most common questions I have been hearing recently, as we approach...

01.12.08 Publication: Ushio

American presidential elections are extraordinary things. Can you think of any other country in which the winning candidate in an election spent 21 months,...

28.11.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Despite its famous democracy and its much-admired economic growth, India is a violent place. Bombs are frequently set off in markets, railway stations and...