A strategic view
Is nothing better than industrial strategy? Former business secretary, Sir Vince Cable, charts the course of UK policy from backing no one to promoting potential. Speaking the day after prime …
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From the mouth of death
In the first of a series of pieces on people and their relationship with work we look at the trajectory taken by Jena Al-Bazi from her birthplace in Iraq …
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Pluralism: walk these ways
Limiting your options to the established school of thought is a false economy. Ha Joon Chang explains how more is more when it comes to shaping economic policy. Thanks in …
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Greece: a crisis wrapped in a calamity inside a tragedy
Greece is a beautiful place in a terrible economic mess. Does that make it a land of opportunity or have its people been forced over a cliff edge by the …
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Open sesame: the keypad to China’s treasures
Why ker-ching! has become bleep! in China’s cities. Joshua Howey discovers the future for buying a sandwich in the street. As I stepped off the bus and onto the noisy …
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Costa Rica – a Dark Brew
Water management in Costa Rica is crucial in maintaining the country’s valuable eco-tourism industry and vital cash crops. But it is struggling through an undergrowth of fragmented responsibilities and competing …
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The most remarkable rejection of free trade you’ve never heard of
Africans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right. In one of the most under-reported …
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Economics is in a mess. Verity Bastion, Emeritus Professor of Economics, speaks out. The Mint has asked me to write a column. Now I know this Mint thing it’s a …
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Can liberals actually fool all the people all the time? The Outsider writes. Everybody wants to be cool. And liberal sounds like liberation which conjures up freedom and the will …
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Three Years and Counting
Bête noir to established economists Steve Keen tells the Mint why Brexit ended a stupid policy but the government line on trade agreements is nonsense and an economic zombie apocalypse …
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