Posts Tagged ‘media appearances’
Studying the Power Elite
20 Oct 2017My Financial Times review of William Domhoff’s Studying the Power Elite looks at the historical discussion of political power in America. Should wealthy individuals have a greater say in the running of modern democratic societies than other citizens? The official answer nowadays is, arguably, no. In the early days of the US, however, voting was […]
- Tags: America, book, inequality, media appearances, review
Israelkritik als Judenhass
10 Sep 2017On 7 September Novo magaine published a German translation of my spiked essay on Israel and anti-semitism. Seit dem Sechstagekrieg gilt Israel vielen Kritikern als Apartheidsstaat. Die Obsession mit israelischer Politik befördert Antisemitismus. Vor 50 Jahren erlitt die arabische Welt ein schweres Trauma. Im Juni 1967 hatte der winzige Staat Israel in nur sechs Tagen […]
- Tags: Germany, Israel, media appearances, Middle East
Latest FT book review
5 Sep 2017My review of James Montague’s The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners was published by the Financial Times last Friday (1 September). In The Wire, the acclaimed US television crime drama, Detective Lester Freamon says: “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money […]
- Tags: book, Britain, inequality, media appearances, review
The Wisdom of Money
4 Jul 2017This review appeared in the Financial Times on 23 June. It is all too easy for individuals to think that assumptions prevalent in their own country are universal. Take, for instance, the thorny question of politeness. What is considered reasonable behaviour in one country can be seen as outrageously rude in another. Just look at […]
- Tags: America, book, Europe, inequality, media appearances, review
The truth about Israel hatred
13 Jun 2017Spiked has published an essay by me on The Truth About Hatred of Israel. I will upload the full text at a later date.
- Tags: media appearances, Middle East, spiked
Utopia for miserabilists
27 May 2017My latest book review was published in the Spiked Review yesterday. From the title onwards, Utopia for Realists is an exercise in sophistry. Despite the ample use of revolutionary rhetoric, the consequence of its proposals would be a hyper-austerity that would make the most hawkish free marketeer blush. Let’s start with the book’s outsized claims. […]
- Tags: book, economics, inequality, media appearances, review
The Givers – full text of review
11 May 2017This is the full text of my book review that was in the Financial Times last Friday. At first sight it is hard to see how anyone could object. Many of the world’s richest people are devoting vast sums towards helping to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. In some cases, the causes […]
- Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review
The Givers
7 May 2017On Friday the Financial Times published my review of David Callahan’s The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. I will upload the text in the next few days but in the meantime it is available to read here (you may need to register to gain access).
- Tags: book, inequality, media appearances, review
Published on ÖkonomenBlog
27 Mar 2017The ÖkonomenBlog, a project of the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM – Initiative for a New Social Market Economy) has reproduced my recent article on behavioural economics. It was first published in English on spiked then translated into German by Novo magazine.
- Tags: behavioural, economics, Germany, media appearances, spiked
Latest FT book review
11 Mar 2017Yesterday the Financial Times published my review of JC Sharman’s The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management. Ever thought who the fellow customers of your bank might be? No doubt the vast majority are decent, hard-working people but could they include foreign leaders who have embezzled many millions from their impoverished countries? Nowadays it is unlikely […]
- Tags: book, development, globalisation, inequality, media appearances, review
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