‘A very camp environment’: why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay Ubiquity of then-illegal relations at King’s College, Cambridge, explains puzzling 1952 admission, says scholar The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2025
If Britain must rearm, how to pay for it? Stiffen the sinews; summon up the taxes It will fall to Rachel Reeves and the Treasury to fund the PM’s crisis reset. I can help with that, as can John Maynard Keynes, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025
The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again Editorial: Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain’s first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025
Animal spirits: Labour want to unleash them – but what do they actually mean? The term has Keynesian roots and was explored in a 2009 book. Problem is, it can mean very different things to different people ... The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025
A 32-hour week? It could work for Congress, staff say - Roll Call Progressive staffers are floating “a rotating 32-hour workweek for District and D.C. staff,” asking bosses to give it a shot. Roll Call · Jan 16, 2025
Jamie Dimon says the next generation of employees will work 3.5 days a week and live to 100 years old Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says AI will enable people to work 3.5-day weeks in future. Fortune · Nov 24, 2024
'It might pave the way for novel forms of artistic expression': Generative AI isn't a threat to artists — it's an opportunity to redefine art itself Rather than fearing the rise of generative AI, new technologies may allow creatives to define and express themselves in completely new ways. LiveScience · Nov 23, 2024
OPINION - Keir Starmer's prosperity plan for Britain is lacking some vital ingredients Labour has read its John Maynard Keynes. It unleashed the “animal spirits” of a possible economic bounceback at its first investment summit yesterday, with an upbeat Keir Starmer pledging to “improve Britain’s brand” and promising a land of opportunity for global investors — and some “heritage Yookay“ experience thrown in… Evening Standard · Oct 15, 2024
Money by David McWilliams review – the story of cold hard cash An economist explains how money shaped civilisation from 18,000BC to the present day via King Midas and Darwin The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2024
The Guardian view on Keynesian naivety: workers must be able to bargain for a fair share Editorial: As the TUC annual conference begins, new figures from the UN show why productivity growth doesn’t naturally benefit everyone The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024
The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party Emergency cuts, empty pockets, a ‘maxed-out credit card’: why is Rachel Reeves using the language and logic of austerity, asks Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2024
Flunkies, goons and managerial feudalism: why David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs is the book that keeps on giving Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books. The Conversation · Jul 30, 2024
'Utterly unjustifiable': Economist reacts to Rachel Reeves speech It looked as if Rachel Reeves had taken drama lessons to put on a show of sufficient mock anger in the Commons today. She clearly wanted to blame… The National (Scotland) · Jul 29, 2024
We were promised a 15-hour working week. What’s the hold-up? More UK companies are about to trial a four-day week, and all employees could soon get the right to switch off. It’s still just baby steps, writes Emma Beddington The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2024
The Conversation · Jun 28, 2024 Bretton Woods: bloodied, battered but still a huge international achievement 80 years on In July 1944, with war still raging in Europe and the Pacific, 730 delegates from 44 countries gathered at the Mount Washington, a grand hotel built at the turn of the century in New Hampshire. They were on the edge of a little town called Carroll, surrounded by a national…
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2024 Peter Riach obituary Other lives: Prominent Australian economist who settled in the UK to found the economics department at De Montfort University, Leicester
The Conversation · Jun 6, 2024 The Federal Union: how a group of 1940s economists dreamt of a European Union for the working classes On the eve of the Second World War, three Oxbridge graduates joined forces in London and wrote a pamphlet calling for the union of Britain with other democracies to avert the coming conflict. They sent the short pamphlet, titled “Federal Union”, to more than 500 opinion-makers in Britain. The warm…
The Conversation · May 20, 2024 What’s the difference between fiscal and monetary policy? This article is part two of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask leading experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2024 The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich Editorial: Wealthy nations exploit their position as the world’s bankers to siphon off hundreds of billions from the needy
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024 Talk of a soft landing for the global economy is premature – many dark scenarios are lurking Big obstacles to rising living standards remain, from populism to protectionism, military conflict to the climate crisis, and China to Wall Street
The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024 Tackling inequality vital for next century of growth, IMF head says Kristalina Georgieva invokes John Maynard Keynes as she says fostering fairer economy would raise living standards ninefold
The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024 William Blake was the emblem of Englishness – but his art was intrinsically European The revered artist barely left London in his lifetime but, as a new exhibition shows, his work was part of a broader European art revolution
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? It is one thing to U-turn on a modest green transition programme. It is another to do so using mendacious Tory economic paradigms, says the economist Yanis Varoufakis
The Guardian - UK · Jan 4, 2024 The world economy is in crisis again. If we look back 80 years, we might be able to fix it The historic Bretton Woods summit shaped a golden era of growth. This year’s G20 could be our equivalent, says academic and economist Michael Jacobs
The Guardian - US · Nov 8, 2023 Economists warn electing far-right Milei would spell ‘devastation’ for Argentina More than 100 economists including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh publish open letter ahead of country’s 19 November election