Archive for December, 2014
Celebrate cheap oil
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20 Dec 2014One of the great paradoxes of 2014 was the apparent mismatch between falling oil prices and military conflict in strategic regions. Normally fighting in the Middle East and the Ukraine would be expected to push up oil prices. Only this year the price has fallen sharply since June. According to the US Energy Information Administration […]
- Tags: china, economics, energy, Fund Strategy
Are the rich different?
15 Dec 2014This is the text of my 4 December feature for the Financial Times There is an apocryphal tale about an exchange between two of America’s most famous novelists on the nature of wealthy individuals. F Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, is reputed to have said: “The rich are different from you and me.” […]
- Tags: America, consumption, economics, inequality
Forging capitalism
12 Dec 2014This is the text of my recent book review in the Financial Times Astute observers of capitalism have long recognised there is a tension at its heart. Although the market economy is based on the pursuit of self-interest, its legitimacy depends on benefiting the wider society. These two contrasting elements were understood as far back […]
Inequality versus economic growth?
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9 Dec 2014In the light of today’s publication of a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a rich country think tank, my spiked essay on inequality is worth rereading. The OECD broadly argues that high and rising inequality damages economic growth whereas I contend that, if anything, causality runs in the other direction. […]
- Tags: America, economics, growth, inequality, spiked
Nudgers should be snubbed
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8 Dec 2014It is sad fact that as the emerging economies have become wealthier the discussion of development has become ever more degraded. Whereas the focus used to be on economic transformation, attempting to turn poor countries into rich ones, the new generation of experts promotes behavioural correctness. Take a look at the 2015 edition of the […]
- Tags: behavioural, development, economics, Fund Strategy
Battle of Ideas session audio
7 Dec 2014The audio recording of my Battle of Ideas 2015 session on “PIGS can’t fly? Surviving austerity” is now available to listen to online here.
- Tags: Austerity Watch, economics, Europe, speeches
Two articles in the FT
5 Dec 2014Two of my articles, a book review and a feature, are published in today’s Financial Times (free registration may be necessary to read). I will upload the text at a later date.
- Tags: book, economics, inequality, media appearances, review
The myth of spending cuts
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3 Dec 2014This article was first published in the December issue of Fund Strategy. Of all the confusing areas of economics one of the most bewildering is public spending. Despite its centrality to public debate in Britain most people probably shrug their shoulders when they hear it being discussed. Yet its profile is likely to get higher […]
- Tags: Britain, economics, finance, Fund Strategy
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