Articles

04.05.17

“In wanting to tackle the scandal of poverty, it will do little or nothing to clear up that scandal, except shift responsibility from the state to the...

27.04.17

Economists debate whether all that matters is poverty Economists are ambivalent about inequality. This is because they find themselves torn between two...

20.04.17

What the gravity model of trade can tell us about the implications of Brexit and Trump Consider a hypothetical Robinson Crusoe thinking of selling coconuts...

12.04.17 Publication: La Stampa

With less than two weeks to go before the first round of France’s presidential election, financial markets are waking up to a new potential nightmare. Having...

09.04.17

Does the solution lie in the survival of laggard firms? This week, when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing that productivity fell in...

30.03.17

As the UK triggers its withdrawal from the EU, economists debate its likely impact “Now is not the end. Nor, indeed, is it the beginning of the end. But...

23.03.17

Commentators react to the economic plans of Emmanuel Macron, the front-runner in the French presidential election His slogan is “En Marche!” which means...

22.03.17

Forget ‘globalisation’, says Bill Emmott — we should be making the case for openness and equality instead The great populist-insurgent of 100 years...

22.03.17

A conversation about Japan’s future with Bill Emmott (The Wake Up Foundation) and Gerhard Fasol (Eurotechnology Japan) Bill Emmott: I came first to...

18.03.17 Publication: Financial Times

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17.03.17

As the legend has it, in 5th century Ireland St Patrick drove all the “snakes” out of the country, an allegory for pagans. This St Patrick’s Day, the...

14.03.17

On Wednesday March 15th voters in the Netherlands will go to the polls in one of the most closely watched Dutch elections in decades. Following the shocks of...

11.03.17

In the second half of the 20th century, no two countries performed better, in terms of raising citizens’ living standards, strengthening political...

10.03.17

LONDON – Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front, claims that the twenty-first century’s defining battle will be between...

10.03.17

Economists are baffled and dubious about a complex proposal to reform US corporate taxation No one thinks Donald Trump came into politics to utter the...

06.03.17 Publication: CAPX

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02.03.17

Economists critique a novel proposal from the founder of Microsoft In the futuristic television series “Humans”, Joe, a middle-manager in a...

01.03.17 Publication: Nikkei Business

In the second half of the 20th century, no two countries performed better, in terms of raising citizens’ living standards, strengthening political...

28.02.17

News that the SPD – Germany’s socialist party – has overtaken the CDU/CSU in the opinion polls for the first time in a decade has galvanised the often...

25.02.17

On 24th February 1918, news in Tallinn was dominated by the Estonian Declaration of Independence (from post-revolutionary Russia) calling for a democratic...

23.02.17

Inflation is accelerating again, but some think the ‘gig economy’ will hold it back Reports of his death, said Mark Twain famously, had been...

16.02.17

Why hasn’t the Brexit vote slowed the UK economy? Macroeconomics under attack after another awkward forecasting failure Last week, when figures revealed...

15.02.17

Why does Italy rank 32nd out of 35 on the Wake Up 2050 Index while Sweden ranks 2nd? Recent prejudices might suggest that the reason is that one is in...

09.02.17

A never-ending debate about a currency union that feels like Hotel California.  Ever since the single currency was launched in 1999, there have been...