Category: Economics

  • 08/07/2024
    Left-behind Britain From a review of Paul Collier’s latest book (Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places) in the…
  • 08/07/2024
    The dismal science Industrial Policy Is a Nostalgic Pipe Dream by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate As I have…
  • 21/05/2024
    Integrity as an unnecessary business expense Post Office scandal: how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and…
  • 21/05/2024
    God & mammon God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations from The Economist Hard facts on the economics of the Almighty…
  • 02/10/2023
    This is a new civilization... Vaclav Smil on the Need to Abandon Growth Speaking as an old-fashioned scientist, I think…
  • 05/06/2023
    Wales ‘We’re crap at capitalism. We need something different’: the battle for economic revival in the Welsh valleys | Economic…
  • 15/03/2023
    VIP capitalism Banks are designed to fail — and they do | Financial Times But few people are capitalists when…
  • 03/02/2023
    Vampire squids The Economist Rolling Stone described Goldman[Sachs]as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming…
  • 23/12/2022
    Feels about right. (From today’s FT)
  • 20/12/2022
    Chartbook #181: Finance and the polycrisis (6): Africa's debt crisis The context for the following quotes from Adam Tooze is…