Rivalry keeps an industry vibrant
The proposed merger between Go and Easyjet has provoked minimal controversy. This belies the important questions it poses for the future of competition policy.
Simplicity has a price
Most popular non-fiction titles are aimed at an educated audience. But a reading age level test indicates that a 10-year-old could easily understand the world's best selling business book.
An era of big names
Some CEOs command celebrity status in the business world. But their companies' performances show fame doesn't always equal fortune.
Look and learn from Enron
Some major lessons can be learnt from Enron's collapse. Here they are, in an easy to remember list
Stiffening the auditors’ backbones (written with Bryan Carsberg)
The debacle of Enron has shaken core assumptions about auditors and auditing . A new accounting standards body needs to be appointed to maintain the integrity of corporate reporting.
A heavyweight metal
In the world of 'DIY economics' steel is as important as ever. Unfortunately, so are the unintended consequences.
Two sides of capitalism
Judge Kollar-Kotelly has the unenviable task of deciding whether Microsoft's antitrust settlement is in the public interest. If only she could focus more on the pluralism of markets.
Anti-capitalism books: May 2002
John surveys the latest wave of books attacking capitalism.
Taming the public sector hybrid
There is too much inconsistency in the way the UK's privatised industries are managed and financed. A new and comprehensive plan is needed.
A true and fair view of productivity
Politicians, business people and financial commentators talk about economic growth as if they were discussing objective data, like population growth, or temperature. But national income accounting is every bit as much a subjective enterprise as the private sector accounting on which it ultimately depends.