Tag: Finance
Currency Options for an Independent Scotland
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Wi joy I’m like chowking...
Alice in Wonderland College
Alice opened the door to the Hall of Wonderland College. In the absence of the Dean, the Mad...
The Bezzle Years
This essay was originally written for Project Syndicate in 2015. If anything, it is more relevant now.
More than...
Robust and Resilient Finance
Support for this paper was gratefully received from the Korea Institute of Finance, which has published it here.
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Rethinking Risk
To mark the end of his time as an Independent Director at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, John was interviewed by James Anderson,...
Finance in the Public Interest
John participated in a panel discussion on finance in the public interest, hosted by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He was...
RIP PLC: The Rise of the Ghost Corporation
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, one form of economic organisation seemed to be displacing all others—the limited...
Radical Uncertainty: Video Recordings
Although future events have been cancelled due to coronavirus, several talks about Radical Uncertainty have been recorded. The discussion and questions at...
Ethical Finance
I was introduced to Catholic social teaching through the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre brought the concept of Aristotelian virtue ethics into...
Pensions are stuck in a doom loop
In 1991 the ebullient fraudster Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht and was found to have looted the Daily Mirror pension funds to support his crumbling...
