Top nations like Denmark do well without pushing others around
The satirical history of England by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman, 1066 and All That, explained that history came to a full stop after the F...
At last, is boring banking making a comeback?
Do the almost simultaneous announcements this month of a new regime at Deutsche Bank, and an extensive restructuring at HSBC, symbolise...
In an interconnected world it remains hard to make borders go away
In an interconnected world it remains hard to maIt is 40 years since Edward Fox, the villainous hero of the movie The Day of the Jackal...
Asset allocation should be the outcome (not the driver of) investment decisions
David Swensen, Yale’s legendary endowment manager, recently delivered a lecture in London to an audience of charity trustees. For...
To keep the UK united we need a coherent vision of the union and its advantages
David Cameron’s response to the overwhelming success of the Scottish National Party in taking 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats has been to pro...
Labour Party’s economic rethink should focus on good corporations
The key elements of the Labour Party’s economic policies in the election were: we will cut public expenditure, but not as quickly or as...
The next UK government must stop being a housing market spectator
Whatever the character of the government Britain elects on Thursday, the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues are little more than...
The bumpy road ahead will most likely lead to Scottish independence
David Cameron anticipated that a referendum on independence for Scotland would produce a decisive no vote, damaging the Scottish Nation...
UK election confirms many beliefs are held in the absence of facts (truthiness)
A decade ago, Stephen Colbert, the American political commentator and satirist who will soon become host of ABC’s Late Night Show, popu...
We can reform the economics curriculum without creating new disciplines
Last week to Paris, for the annual conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. There was much discussion of curriculum refor...