Posts Tagged ‘growth’
Debating growth on BBC
5 Nov 2017I was recently on Newshour Extra on the BBC World Service discussing ‘Do we need economic growth?‘
- Tags: economics, growth, media appearances, radio
„Nachhaltigkeit bremst Wachstum“
17 Apr 2016This is a text (in German) of a recent interview with me from Novo magazin on economic growth. It was conducted by Marco Visscher. The original longer version appeared in Dutch in Oneworld magazine. The headline can be translated as “sustainability hinders growth”. Mehr Wirtschaftswachstum ist nötig, um die Lebensbedingungen der Menschen zu verbessern, besonders […]
- Tags: economics, Germany, growth, inequality, Malthus, media appearances
Berlin debate audio online
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13 Apr 2016The audio recording of my Berlin Salon debate on “Do we need economic growth?” is now online. It turned out to be a fiery exchange in places.
Berlin Salon growth debate
25 Mar 2016I will be debating “Do we need economic growth?” at the Berlin Salon on the evening of 7 April. The discussion is in English and entrance is free. More details are available here.
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
Secular stagnation is a poor excuse
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6 Oct 2014This is my column for the October issue of Fund Strategy. Few seem to have noticed how the role of mainstream economics has changed in recent years. In many cases it could reasonably be called the art of making excuses for poor economic performance. Until a few years ago, many policymakers were congratulating themselves on […]
- Tags: economics, Fund Strategy, growth
FT piece on global inequality
1 Jul 2014This is the text of my piece on global inequality from last Friday’s Financial Times. It is perhaps the ultimate killer fact: Oxfam, the aid organisation, estimates the 85 richest people in the world own as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population. The figure grabbed global media attention and was even […]
- Tags: development, economics, growth, inequality, media appearances
Equality talk obscures low horizons
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30 Jan 2014What is the likely impact of policies to redress wide economic inequalities? Many support this goal and some abhor it but few take the trouble to spell out exactly what they mean by equality in this context. Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union speech provided a good opportunity to unpick the concept. The president […]
- Tags: America, Fund Strategy, growth, inequality
India’s emerging challenge
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4 Sep 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. An important side effect of the debate about “tapering” by America’s Federal Reserve is heighted concern about emerging economies. It is widely argued that as the developed economies start to recover their emerging counterparts could falter. As it happens a western recovery is still […]
- Tags: Asia, development, economics, Fund Strategy, growth, health
Keep ambition on track
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3 Sep 2013The proposed HS2 high speed rail link between London and the north of England provides an object lesson in Britain’s failure to promote economic growth. It shows how politicians of all parties can profess support for economic expansion in good faith only to fail to achieve their stated objectives. In that respect the discussion is […]
- Tags: Britain, economics, Fund Strategy, growth, transport
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