Articles

19.01.20 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

Every year can be said to be important in the United States of America, for what happens in the world’s most powerful country affects us all. But this...

14.12.19 Publication: La Stampa

The British public have chosen the lesser of the two evils that were offered to them in the country’s first December general election since 1923. The result...

14.12.19 Publication: Nikkei Business

Something strange is going on in our businesses and in the economy as a whole, all over the advanced, industrialised world, and Japan is at the forefront of...

30.10.19 Publication: Project Syndicate

LONDON – In another bizarre twist in the Brexit saga, the United Kingdom’s Parliament has signalled its acceptance of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s...

04.10.19 Publication: Nikkei Business

We are living in a world of seemingly permanently low inflation. It is quite a contrast, at least for Europe and North America, to the world of the 1970s,...

01.09.19 Publication: FACTA

In their ideal world, central bankers want to be thought of as boring. For them, less attention is better than more attention. They prefer to be seen as...

31.08.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

In Europe, we are facing two political crises at the same time, both of which stimulate reflections on the nature of constitutions and the current populist...

30.08.19 Publication: La Stampa

What is a populist political party, what is its purpose and how worried should we be? Those questions have been buzzing around in the heads of political...

29.07.19 Publication: Nikkei Business

Women will determine the future of Japan’s economy and of many Japanese businesses. That is the proposition I have put forward in a new book which was...

21.07.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

It was always inevitable, even before Britain handed back control of Hong Kong to China in 1997 after 99 years as a colony, that there would eventually be...

12.07.19 Publication: La Stampa

We will not know until July 24 whether Britain’s next prime minister will be Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, and we may not know until after the summer...

01.06.19 Publication: Nikkei Business

This was supposed to be the year of the global economic slowdown, led by the United States and Europe. More than 10 years after those regions’ recovery from...

28.05.19 Publication: La Stampa

It can be counted as a protest vote against the previous protest vote. That is of course an over-simplification of the European Parliament elections, as any...

02.05.19

Looking back on the three decades of the Heisei era, it is tempting to conclude that although much has changed in Japan's economy and society, very little is...

01.04.19 Publication: Project Syndicate

LONDON – Is populism still on the rise? That question will be looming over elections in Israel, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Spain, and the European...

12.03.19 Publication: strategy+business

The Japanese corporation, like Japanese society itself, has long been a rather rigid affair, with conservative HR policies and overwhelmingly male in its...

09.02.19 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

We British used to talk proudly about how pragmatic, reasonable and logical we are, by comparison with what we have liked to see as our impractical,...

03.02.19 Publication: La Stampa

The trade war between the United States and China risks getting nastier, lasting for years and damaging all our economies. Negotiations in Washington, DC, on...

12.01.19 Publication: Nikkei

It is one of the pure coincidences that history sometimes produces. But the unusual point about the dawn of the Heisei era in 1989-90 is that at exactly the...

03.01.19 Publication: Project Syndicate

DUBLIN – The March 29, 2019, deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union is fast approaching, yet it remains far from clear how the departure...

17.11.18 Publication: Spectator

When Japan hosts the Rugby Union World Cup next year, and still more so the summer Olympics in 2020, all eyes will be on its omotenashi (hospitality), perhaps...

04.08.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

What has emerged from the summits with Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin is a mixture of the psychological and the geopolitical. The psychological element is not...

08.07.18 Publication: Prospect

The greatest issue of our time in political economy is how to reconcile societies to the process we now call globalisation, with all the inequality and...

22.06.18 Publication: Mainichi Shimbun

A common saying among military men is that a country should never send troops into battle without having an exit strategy, a plan for how to end the conflict...