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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
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- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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economic policy Archive
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Who can create jobs?
Posted on 30/06/2011 | No CommentsAn interesting article by Coca-Cola chief executive Muhtar Kent and business academic Ram Charan, “Give the states the power to build jobs”, carried by the Reuters website argues that, in America, the emphasis on job creation should come from the states and not the federal... -
Small economies can ride out the economic storm
Posted on 22/05/2009 | No CommentsThe Financial Times reported on an interesting study by the Lausanne Institute for Management Development yesterday, looking at the resilience of national economies, large and small. Read the report here. The study found that, on the whole, smaller countries were better able to adapt themselves... -
British jobs for British workers
Posted on 04/02/2009 | 1 CommentPeter Oborne, writing in the Daily Mail, is correct to criticise Gordon Brown’s apparent commitment to “British jobs for British workers”, but he is wrong to say that “our membership of the European Union means there is nothing that a British government can do to... -
Ceteris paribus
Posted on 21/01/2009 | 5 CommentsThe title is a Latin phrase used in economics which means “all other things being equal”. The prediction of what difference any specific alteration to economic policy will make is always hedged by this consideration. You can never be sure exactly what will follow from... -
On the European fence
Posted on 10/10/2008 | No CommentsPublished in the Daily Mail, 10 October 2008 I can’t work out whether Christopher Booker is in favour of countries pursuing their own national interests or against it. We know he thinks Britain should do this, but he criticises the French and the Germans for... -
Economic giant and political dwarf
Posted on 07/10/2008 | No CommentsAt a discussion this evening on the state of the European economy and the prospects for economic reform, an elegant point was made that something profound has changed within the EU. It used to be described as an economic giant and a political dwarf, being... -
How Europe takes financial decisions
Posted on 07/10/2008 | No CommentsThe Daily Telegraph kindly published a letter from me today on the unfolding financial crisis, but edited it so as to delete the main point I was trying to make. I was responding to an article by Janet Daley that criticised the secrecy of the... -
On another planet
Posted on 04/03/2008 | 1 CommentInteresting talk from Professor Tim Lang this evening on food security. (Read him on the Quotebank here.) He was spelling out the state of the world’s food supply and suggesting a few of the things that need to be done. A number of the points... -
Managing the global economy
Posted on 14/12/2007 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in The Times, 14 December 2007 Sir, You are right to insist on the importance of reform of the institutions that manage the global economy (leading article, Dec 13). It is increasingly apparent that decisions taken in one country will have an... -
A society of states
Posted on 09/08/2007 | No CommentsMargaret Thatcher famously remarked that there is no such thing as society, only people and their families. Of course, she was wrong, as this blog remarked in the context of violence and pacifism. Read it here. (For another criticism, think about the point Steven Pinker...
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