Posts Tagged ‘finance’
Battle of Ideas 2018 debate
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5 Feb 2019My debate from the Battle of Ideas 2018 on “Trust: 10 years after the financial crisis” is now available to watch online.
Battle of Ideas debates
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20 Sep 2018I am delighted to be speaking at two sessions at this year’s Battle of Ideas festival in London on the weekend of 13-14 October. At 10am on Sunday 14th I will be talking about big business in the developing world. Then at 12 noon there will be session on 10 years after the financial crisis. […]
- Tags: development, economics, finance, speeches
Crashed: full text of review
19 Sep 2018This is the full text of my review essay published on spiked on 13 September. The bankruptcy a decade ago of Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank, is widely seen as turning point in early 21st-century history. Many view it as a trigger for the global financial crisis, which in turn precipitated the worst […]
Review on financial crisis
18 Sep 2018Spiked has published my review of Adam Tooze’s Crashed, already widely hailed as the definitive work on the global financial crisis. I will upload the full text at a later date.
IEA blog on behavioural economics
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2 Jul 2016The following is a blog post I wrote on behavioural economics for the Institute of Economic Affairs website. Anyone who has what might be called an instinct for freedom is likely to baulk at being dictated to by experts. A fundamental liberal principle is that individuals should have the autonomy to make their own decisions […]
- Tags: behavioural, economics, finance, media appearances
The Hidden Wealth of Nations
19 Mar 2016This is the text of my recent book review on tax havens for ft.com One of the biggest potential rifts in modern societies is that between great wealth and democracy. The ideals of formal equality, such as equal rights and one vote for every adult, are widely accepted. On the other hand, there is an […]
Two reviews in Financial Times
12 Mar 2016Yesterday the Financial Times published two book reviews by me: a piece on Dark Money by Susan Mayer and another on The Hidden Wealth of Nations by Gabriel Zucman.The text of the former, a study of the Koch brothers and their influence on American politics, appears below. I will upload the text of the other […]
Keep pensions out of politics
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6 Feb 2016I do not normally upload work-related articles on to this blog as they are often too technical. However, this comment may be of more general interest. It is from the February issue of IPE. Pension funds and asset managers should focus more on their role of providing retirement income and less on political questions. Indeed, […]
- Tags: consumption, finance, sustainability
Why inequality is such an obsession
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16 Jul 2015Since this is my last blog post for Fundweb allow me to indulge a little. I want to try to unravel a debate that has increasingly preoccupied policymakers, as well as myself, in recent years. That is the discussion of excessive inequality. The arguments on the subject can be incredibly frustrating because they are often at cross-purposes. […]
- Tags: economics, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
Comparing China and the West
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12 Jul 2015There follows my Fund Strategy Polemic column for July. For all the talk of a possible bubble in US technology stocks, the rise in the Nasdaq over the past year is dwarfed by the surge in the Shanghai and Shenzen stockmarket indices. Draw lines on the same graph representing percentage change over the past year […]
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