Articles
London is too far from Singapore
The UK government’s post Brexit aspiration for the City to challenge Singapore’s growth in offshore finance is flawed and ill-matched to growing global hostility to tax havens. John Christensen explains.
It ain’t what you think it’s the way that you think it
Mandela: transformed a “them and us” culture to one based on common ground. The global economic and political quandary we face today will not go away if we fail to
Brexit: the good, the bad and the ugly
Economists and others gathered to compare notes on Brexit. Deborah Hawkes was there. Before the election, The Mint invited members of the public to join three economists to discuss Brexit,
Red and expert – an insight into studying economics in China
The drag in dragon: lectures on Chinese socialism are more mind numbing than brainwashing. China’s universities revere Western economists. But the students still battle to stay awake through lectures on
Land locked
Money for nothing: Neoclassical economics leaves windfalls from land ownership largely overlooked. As the value of land swells, generations in the UK who didn’t catch the tide of house ownership
The Case for Policy Space
Crowded out: corporate giants are cramping developing nations’ sovereign styles. Rick Rowden looks at the impact of corporate moves to homogenise global trading and investment agreements and how developing countries
The people’s stake: a new way to tackle inequality
A greater role in the economy for the many can be more than fine words says Stewart Lansley. In the UK the Prime minister, Theresa May has repeatedly pledged to
Land reform and dispossession in Africa
How handing out titles to the poor can make the rich richer. By Howard Stein, Ann Arbor, Faustin Maganga, Rie Odgaard and Kelly Askew. There was a time when
Interviews
Decisions, Decisions
Lamy: the possibilities of digital simulation struck “a visceral chord.” Artificial intelligence could guide decisions from the political to the personal, if people would seize the opportunities on offer. The Mint talks to Dahlia Lamy, who says the
The only way is ethics
Pettifor: “Private authority can’t fully be trusted to uphold contracts.” Trust and compliance with regulation are not familiar virtues in the world of global finance according to Ann Pettifor. She
He who pays the piper
Baker: his message struggles to be heard because a lot of money goes into calling the other tune. Dean Baker explains how calls for a new type of market –
Columns
Your word is your bond
Blott: “I didn’t choose glue so much as it chose me.” Tony Blott runs a glue supply company having directed an NHS trust. He sees little difference in many ways
A bullet in the chamber of the Commons
We seem to be playing a game of political Russian roulette in UK. Place your cross – pull the trigger for a new leader – see what happens. Labour’s pseudo
Trust in economics. Or how far can you throw a rational actor?
The question of trust is of course core to our lives. When trust breaks down in a relationship due for instance to an affair, it is probably over. This is
Verity
Professor Verity Bastion seeks to steady the ship in these turbulent times with some common sense. There is something about Theresa May that reminds me of the Maid of Lorraine.