Book Review – The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
The Great Escape is escape from ill-health and deprivation. The author exemplifies it through the story of his own family. ...
The Future of Capitalism
Tonight, I would like to bury, not capitalism, as the Soviet leader Khrushchev foolishly claimed h...
Book Review – Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of our Time by Ira Katznelson
The presidency of Franklin Roosevelt secured the survival of lightly regulated capitalism and liberal democracy, not just in the United...
An independent Scotland: the economic issues
A sketch of economic Scotland
From a statistical perspective, Scotland looks very like the UK a...
The Size of States – an Economic Analysis
The union of parliaments between Scotland and England took place in 1707. The triggering eve...
Book Review: The Economics of Small States by David Hume
In the nineteenth century, states became larger. The dominant political events were the expansion of empires, the unification of ...
Scottish Herald II
Last week, the Scottish Government brought forward its first budget proposals in the new age of au...
Innovation
Apple is the most innovative consumer products company of the last decade. It has redefined ...
Scottish Herald
The nineteenth century statesman, Lord Palmerston, supposedly said that the Schleswig Holstein question was so complicated that only th...
The need for structural reform in banking
Financial World
There are three principal groups of argument for structural reform in the finan...