Don’t bring the house down
Real estate is a load bearing part of the UK economy. Alexander Tziamalis warns how cracks are appearing. London real estate is in a downward spiral, for the first time …
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Short and Sweet
In remarkably few words Nick Silver gets to many points in his biting analysis of the global financial system, Finance, Society and Sustainability. It’s all good – more would be …
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And so… to the cleaners. An invitation to lunch all gets a bit messy.
Last week I had a lunch date. This is not something I get to have much these days. One of my postgraduate students, Crispin McDonal, contacted me through my university. …
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Behaviour is good
How do you measure it? Can you turn it around? ‘How?’ is becoming as important a question as how much? in investors’ regulators’ and customers’ appraisals of businesses. Deborah Hawkes …
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Property Rights and Economic Development
Western European gross domestic product per capita was about twenty times larger in 2003 than it was in 1700. Geoff Hodgson questions whether greater security in property rights really did …
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Sinking in the klepto- professional reign
Capitalism needs to heal. But mounting greed among the professional classes is choking our post crash recovery. In the run up to the 2008 crisis, financial speculation was large, dominant …
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Rick Bookstaber Interview: A model agent
Mainstream economics’ failure to predict the 2008 crash undermined the profession’s public credibility. There’s a new game in town that financial risk guru, Rick Bookstaber, has faith in. He shares …
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The attack on Dodd-Frank
Rick Rowden lays out how Trump, Wall Street and the Republicans are committed to dismantling financial regulation in the US. Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in the wake of the 2008 global financial …
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Regulating behaviour: time off for good conduct?
The principles underpinning behavioural economics have been attracting legislators seeking to rein in the excesses of the financial sector. Are theymotivated by saving face, political gain or doing right by …
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When will they ever learn?
Can we avoid financial instability or has our human nature evolved in such a way that they are inevitable? Clearly Gordon Brown’s endless pronounce- ments of the end of ‘Boom …
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