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 · Mar 14, 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 19, 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 · Feb 15, 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 - UK · Jan 4, 2024
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 The Guardian - US · Nov 8, 2023
OPINION - Rishi Sunak in conversation with Elon Musk went exactly as you'd expect Artificial intelligence taking all of our jobs was perhaps not the headline Rishi Sunak was hoping for at the end of the two-day, AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park. But once you invite Elon Musk onto the stage, you somewhat surrender your news cycle to his whims. Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2023
A hotbed of English radicalism? Auden, Britten and the unsung glory of the Group Theatre When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known? The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2023
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 allow people to work 3.5 day weeks in the future. Fortune · Oct 3, 2023
‘You’re not getting any’ – the secret sexual signals in the Bloomsbury Group’s clothes The Bloomsbury Group weren’t just artistic and sexual pioneers. They also sparked a sartorial revolution. We meet the author of Bring No Clothes, a revealing book about fashion’s queer trailblazers The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023
Morgan Stanley just compared the ‘bubble-like euphoria’ over A.I. to the investing manias of the past century. The lesson for investors: Don’t ‘rush in’ “History has shown that for multiyear themes…there is usually little need for investors to rush in,” analyst Edward Stanley said. Fortune · Aug 10, 2023
From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out? The Conversation · Aug 9, 2023
Interest rates: the case for cutting them permanently to zero In 1937 the English economist Joan Robinson proposed that “when capitalism is rightly understood, the rate of interest will be set at zero and the major evils of capitalism will disappear”. John Maynard Keynes, who had taught Robinson, suggested something similar a year earlier in slightly more qualified and technical… The Conversation · Aug 9, 2023
Raghuram Rajan: the banker who warned of meltdown in 2005 The former governor of India’s central bank now steers a tricky course between supporting free markets and campaigning against unfettered risk-taking The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023
The Guardian view on pricing power: it’s about firms’ strength and profiteering Editorial: For the first time since Covid, businesses are most to blame for the UK’s high inflation rates. But ministers are doing little about it The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023
Businessweek · May 18, 2023 The True Cost of an Extended US Debt-Ceiling Standoff Recurring struggles over the borrowing limit undermine the status of the US as an economic superpower.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023 AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But who exactly will benefit? The clock is ticking on the development of policy to meet this huge societal challenge, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor
The Walrus · Mar 16, 2023 Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less? The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story
Reason · Feb 25, 2023 The Big Myth Is Full of Recycled Anti-Capitalist Cheap Shots A new entrant in the anti-neoliberalism genre fails to land any blows.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2023 It is hard to admit being wrong. But Brexit voters are doing so in droves Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear
The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2023 Work less, live more: is it time to end the five-day week? Research shows that working fewer hours can be far more productive. Richard Godwin clocks on to find out if it’s true
Tribune News Service · Dec 29, 2022 Editorial: The fiscal cliff looms; nothing to see here The national debt is much like the weather. Everybody worries about the topic, but nobody wants to do anything about it.
The New Daily · Dec 7, 2022 Alan Kohler: Why the Voice is an economic as well as moral issue A First Nations Voice is fundamentally a moral question and a symbol of recognition, but it is also economic and political.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2022 It may sound paradoxical, but Britain needs to spend its way out of recession Cutting during a recession has been long discredited, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Reason · Oct 13, 2022 What the 1970s Can Teach Us About Today's Inflationary Politics Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.
The National (Scotland) · Oct 10, 2022 Why was Labour’s first PM later branded a traitor to cause? RAMSAY MacDonald was the UK’s first Labour prime minister yet he remains an oddly obscure figure in the party’s political history. He served…