A few days before the so-called Pestminster scandal began to bubble up, a picture of a famous piece of embroidery appeared on Sarah’s Facebook account….
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This post is taken from the newsletter of the Schumacher Center for New Economics. The rise of so many right-wing nationalist movements around the world—Brexit,…
Despite being a devout atheist Jew, there are still some Christian figures for whom I have a certain admiration. These are admittedly minor figures in…
I am a huge admirer of Paddy Ashdown’s new political movement, More United. Yes, it sounds like a new kind of football club. But I…
It’s a red letter day for economics. Richard Thaler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. This is not just any old economics prize….
It’s somewhat surreal when being balanced and reasonable counts as radical thinking. For decades, the UK has been beset with an obsession of pitting ‘private’…
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…
What a confused state economists and central bankers are in these days. One can’t envy them their job – always difficult but apparently now veering…
Published in the Financial Times, August 25, 2017 Sir, Tony Barber, in “Politics motivates Silvio Berlusconi’s parallel currency idea” (FT.com, August 22), notes that critics…
It was 1975 when consultants at Arthur D Little promised that, within a few short years, technology would deliver the paperless office. We all know…
This is cross-posted from the New Weather blog… There is a truism about fish, who are said not to wonder overmuch about the nature of…
Ten years ago, the financial system began its collapse before governments intervened to save it. Much of the subsequent legislation, regulation and angst has been…