The monetary policy politburo
byIn a fascinating 30-minute interview, David Stockman – a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan – discusses…
Mass exit from poverty
by Vipin Veetil(co-authored with Bill Glod) Do the poor have too many choices? MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo answer in the affirmative in their…
Happy interventionists: the economist’s attack on your property
by Detlev SchlichterLast week, DIW – the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (German Institute for Economic Research) – an influential think tank, proposed an ingenious solution to…
Corporate giants rarely outlast their usefulness
by Anthony J. EvansIn this article for City A.M. I discuss Joseph Schumpeter’s concept of “creative destruction”, and why Karl Marx was wrong to suppose that capitalism…
Santayana’s Curse – The Grapes of Wrath
by Sean CorriganOur final excerpt from Chapter 2 of Santayana’s Curse. Continued from Timeo Danaos (et Romanos). … this was to be the high point of Italian…
Hugh Hendry v. Joseph Stiglitz
by Toby BaxendaleI received this YouTube clip from a friend of the Cobden Centre and I think it is fantastic. It shows the fundamental banality of…
Santayana’s Curse – Timeo Danaos (et Romanos)
by Sean CorriganThe second of three excerpts from Chapter 2 of Santayana’s Curse, which is now available for Kindle. Continued from Union Victory, Union Defeat. … if…
Santayana’s Curse – Union Victory, Union Defeat
by Sean CorriganOver the next few days, we will be publishing excerpts from Chapter 2 of Santayana’s Curse, which is now available for Kindle. … it is…
Libor pains
by Tim Price“It was when Nick Clegg joined the campaign against Bob Diamond that I started to feel a sliver of sympathy for the now former-boss…
Two themes and a variation
by Sean CorriganAround the start of the year, in the course of a routine set of market overviews which we have to set out twice a…