McEwan's environments: shining through Solar

Tony Curzon Price 30 March 2010
There are two views of why the environment is a mess and what we should be doing to help it shining through Ian McEwan's latest novel, Solar. But there is one unexplored, but possibly crucial, configuration.

Is this how quantitative easing works

Tony Curzon Price 25 March 2010
This was passed on to me by John Jackson, via another. Is this the right model?

Healthcare and religion

Tony Curzon Price 19 March 2010
Healthcare is not God's work

How to tell your debt from your deficit

Tony Curzon Price 18 March 2010
A quick clarification on debts, deficits and affordability

Doha, development and the agriculture issue: Let’s get real!

Charles Barclay Roger 18 March 2010
Roger assesses the effects of agricultural subsidies and market barriers on the welfare of the world's poorest.

Recovery requires redistribution

Tim Bending 15 March 2010
As governments everywhere struggle with cutting deficits without hammering the recovery from the financial crisis, a new book argues that Keynes has had the solution for a long time.

India's big guns bazaar

Nitasha Kaul 4 March 2010
Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.

Trust the people on climate change

Stephen Plowden 1 March 2010
While inconsistency with respect to climate change runs so deep in government policy, how can we expect people to behave differently?

Netanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran

Thomas S Evans 25 February 2010
Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would be likely to work to the detriment of the West’s and Israel’s goals.

More bank for your buck

Peter Johnson 23 February 2010
The UK Shadow Chancellor's proposal to offer the public a discount to buy shares in banks taken into state ownership over the last two years

Optimal currency areas and the politics of fooling around

Tony Curzon Price 23 February 2010
The passage between Scylla and Charibdis in the ocean of currencies implies neither euro nor drachma, but more democratic control over the economy

Tea Party history: it was anti big-business

Jim Sleeper 18 February 2010
The Boston Tea Party's history of trying to properly separate government and business holds serious lessons for today's partiers

Philanthrocapitalism: the defense

Matthew Bishop and Michael Green 12 February 2010

Today's big philanthropists understand the power of politics, and Michael Edwards should give them more credit

Deliberation – Lessons from Brazil

Andrea Cornwall 10 February 2010
By giving people permission to dream, space to debate, chance to learn, opportunities to contribute to righting deep-rooted wrongs, Brazil is creating a nation of informed, politically engaged citizens. The UK can learn from its example.

Marriage's lost benefits: tax credits and election promises

Simon McMahon 10 February 2010
British conservatives claim that the tax system penalises marriage and that this is responsible for social break down. Simon McMahon finds the first claim fair, but the second less so

Euro: Writing on the wall?

Our debate about the euro and the euro zone crisis.

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