Publication: Voice

01.02.10 Publication: Voice

The great global recession of 2007-2009 has been a shocking and disturbing experience for people all over the world, especially the many who had become...

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

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

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...

01.01.08 Publication: Voice

The momentum behind China’s economic and political rise is impressive. It brings to mind the phrase "shock and awe" that was commonly used by American...