Archive for July, 2010
Review of Aftershock on spiked
30 Jul 2010Spiked has published my review of Philippe Legrain’s Aftershock.
- Tags: book, economics, media appearances, review, spiked
Review on Culture Wars
29 Jul 2010Angus Kennedy has reviewed Ferraris for All for the Culture Wars website.
- Tags: media appearances
On BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed
28 Jul 2010I will be on Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 next week. It will also be available on the internet and on iTunes.
- Tags: media appearances, radio
Book Monitor: Chinese inequality
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27 Jul 2010Martin King Whyte, a professor of sociology at Harvard, has written a fascinating sounding study of perceptions of inequality in China. The Myth of the Social Volcano (Stanford UP) is based on the first systematic national survey of Chinese citizins which was carried on in 2004 According to a discussion of the book in the […]
- Tags: book, china, development, inequality
Transcript of Brighton event
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26 Jul 2010The Brighton Salon, clearly a model of efficiency, has produced a transcript of the Ferraris for All event on 20 July. Many thanks to Sean Bell.
- Tags: speeches
Market theories did not cause crisis
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26 Jul 2010This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. It is a bit more technical than usual. Critics can easily pick holes in the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) as an explanation of financial market behaviour (see cover story on p18). But blaming the EMH for the recent economic crisis, as some are doing, is absurd. The […]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy
Article in the Australian
25 Jul 2010I have an article in tomorrow’s Australian on the frequent use of the term “sustainability” in the country’s election debate.
- Tags: Australia, Malthus, media appearances, sustainability
Debating in Newcastle
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25 Jul 2010I will be taking part in a debate on the “limits to growth in the 21st century” at the Green Phoenix Festival in Gibside, near Newcastle (in the north east of England), on Sunday 22 August. The other panellists will be Mike Childs, the head of climate at Friends of the Earth, and Phil O’Keefe, […]
- Tags: environment, speeches, sustainability
Green tape © TM
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24 Jul 2010I am writing this to lay claim to having coined the term “green tape” to mean the web of regulations that embody the principle of economic restraint. Notably this would include all regulations based on the notions of sustainability as well as the precautionary principle. I first used the term in print in today’s Guardian […]
- Tags: ethics, sustainability
New comment on Guardian site
24 Jul 2010The Guardian has published another comment by me on its comment is free site. It argues the British economy needs more growth and infrastructure and less regulation and banker bashing.
- Tags: economics, media appearances
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