I have just published Mary Kaldor's latest column, which I think makes a really valuable contribution to our view of the financial crisis. The economics commentary, however much
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): George Osborne gave the Today program an opportunity to demonstrate the great emptiness of the media-political conversation this morning.
Paraphrasing, here was the interview:
SM
George Osborne gave the Today program an opportunity to demonstrate the great emptiness of the media-political conversation this morning.
Paraphrasing, here was the interview:
SM (interviewer): "What is wrong
The BoE quarterly report has a table (reproduced below) of all the measures that have been taken by central banks world-wide to get banks lending again. The fact that, after
Iceland's chill has led Bjork to tune in to her inner philanthrocapitalist. (Hat Tip CalendarGirl ). In this interview, Bjork describes her reaction to Iceland's economic woes
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): Darling is going to announce that the budgetary prudence rules of his predecessor---to balance the budget over the cycle, unless the spending is on long
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): The Bank of England's report on the state of finance has about 3 worrying graphs per page.
Here's just one example
Here is Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian today:
"I want a page, a site, a something that is created, curated, edited and discussed. It will include articles. But it&
The Sunday Telegraph publishes a letter from the rump monetarists---many familiar names from the economic crusades of the 1980's.
It is interesting to see how those old arguments
I went to a fascinating lecture by Daniele Archibugi yesterday at Birckbeck who argues that the prospects for global democratic institutions are actually quite good. The essence of democracy, he
While I am 100% with Yves Gingras that Economics should not have a Nobel, I am very pleased that Paul Krugman has been awarded the The Bank of Sweden Prize
