The economics blogosphere is abuzz ... is the oil price being driven up by market fundamentals or by some sort of manipulative activity?Paul Krugman has a short theoretical piece here
Slippery oil prices
Slippery oil prices
Tony Curzon Price
June 23rd 2008
I wrote a piece on the oil price last week for The Spectator (there is an uncut version
Speculators ahoy
Fundamentalism and oil markets
Tony Curzon Price
June 14th 2008
In 1990, Jim Rogers, famed biker-trader, set off to circumscribe the globe astride a large motorcycle and
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): I have discovered with great pleasure Julian Jaynes' rather controversial "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown fo the Bi-cameral Mind"
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): A friend of mine tells this story of a first encounter with a French scientist, met under the building-sized replica of the DNA molecule
Economics - roots and food
Tony Curzon Price
May 3rd 2008
Xenophon wrote the first economics book as a treatise on how an Athenian nobleman should best manage his estate. It
You may have noticed that our banner spot is now occasionally filled with Google AdWords.
We've experimented in the past with Google Adsense, and we stopped when, after
My two previous posts from the Summit are on OurKingdom: Lots of programs - but where are the progressives?
Want to feel good about the short term world outlook?
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The spectacle of "moral hazard'' caught in the spotlight is not edifying. Bankers who have been seen living in morally righteous luxury are now relying on the
Our friends at Avaaz (including openDemocracy's co-founder, Paul Hilder) have been working at getting a global and significant petition to represent world opinion about events in Tibet.
