Debt is a two-edged sword
A paper presented last week at a conference of the world’s central bankers looked at the levels of debt in different countries and its impact on economic growth. Debt, or […]
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economic policy
Who can create jobs?
An interesting article by Coca-Cola chief executive Muhtar Kent and business academic Ram Charan, “Give the states the power to build jobs”, carried by the Reuters website argues that, in
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Small economies can ride out the economic storm
The Financial Times reported on an interesting study by the Lausanne Institute for Management Development yesterday, looking at the resilience of national economies, large and small. Read the report here.
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British jobs for British workers
Peter Oborne, writing in the Daily Mail, is correct to criticise Gordon Brown’s apparent commitment to “British jobs for British workers”, but he is wrong to say that “our membership
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Ceteris paribus
The title is a Latin phrase used in economics which means “all other things being equal”. The prediction of what difference any specific alteration to economic policy will make is
On the European fence
Published in the Daily Mail, 10 October 2008 I can’t work out whether Christopher Booker is in favour of countries pursuing their own national interests or against it. We know
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Economic giant and political dwarf
At a discussion this evening on the state of the European economy and the prospects for economic reform, an elegant point was made that something profound has changed within the
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How Europe takes financial decisions
The Daily Telegraph kindly published a letter from me today on the unfolding financial crisis, but edited it so as to delete the main point I was trying to make.
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On another planet
Interesting talk from Professor Tim Lang this evening on food security. (Read him on the Quotebank here.) He was spelling out the state of the world’s food supply and suggesting
Managing the global economy
By Richard Laming Published in The Times, 14 December 2007 Sir, You are right to insist on the importance of reform of the institutions that manage the global economy (leading article,
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