Geocraft Art of Deal (Business)
The art of the deal lies in structuring a negotiation in which there is a surplus to divide, so that both sides win. There are three pr...
The Future of the City of London
I may not need much introduction but I don’t go anywhere at the moment without advertising my newly published book The Long and the Sho...
How to Regulate Banks Effectively
I have spent quite a lot of my life looking at the regulation of industries other than financial services, so it is appropriate to star...
Reforming the financial sector
The present crisis is not an act of God, unpredictable to and unpredicted by ordinary mortals. It was not caused by loose monetar...
Book review: The Spirit Level: why more equal societies almost always do better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
For more than two decades, we have been encouraged to believed that the prosperity of the few is to the ultimate benefit of all. ...
The Present Crisis
We cannot discuss how we emerge from the present crisis unless we understand how we entered the present crisis. This is a confusing dis...
Book Review: Free Market Madness: Why human nature is at odds with economics and why it matters by Peter Ubel
Behavioural economics is the theory that decisions are best studied by looking at what people actually do rather than by imposing model...
Kudos for the contrarian
This is the time when pundits make predictions about what will happen in 2009 - after a year of shocking and unanticipated economic eve...
The titans’ inability to apologise for this sorry mess
I have been listening to supermum Nicola Horlick on the Today programme. She was discussing the investments made by the company s...
Some companies are too powerful to fail
Great banks are ‘too big to fail’. The predictable consequence of governments accepting this argument is a queue of other compani...