Newspaper coverage
December 14, 2011
Perhaps Newt Gingrich filched his bright ideas from Europe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/14/newt-gingrich-merkel-sarkozy
November 15, 2011
Anti-capitalist? Too simple. Occupy can be the catalyst for a radical rethink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/15/anti-capitalist-occupy-pigeonholing
October 14, 2011
Financial tax not the death knell of capitalism
With European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso putting his weight behind it, a generalised financial transaction tax — once a pipe dream of the radical fringe — has become an imminent reality Published in Business Day and written with Duncan Green More here
October 11, 2011
The Bric countries can't save us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/11/global-recession-leaders-must-act
August 8, 2011
Global finance has dysfunction at its heart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/global-finance-dysfunction-at-heart?INTCMP=SRCH
August 7, 2011
Five False Premises about Economic Recovery
For a year or so following the financial crisis, the recovery strategy in most countries was based on a renewed belief in activist government—stimulus packages, bailout of key industrial and financial firms and even talk of (and some action on) industrial policy, notably related to “green growth”. Read more … http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/08/07/five-false-premises-about-economic-recovery/
June 28, 2011
The Economist : Debate
There is a debate between me and Professor Jagdish Bhagwati on the importance of manufacturing You can read the debate here
April 18, 2011
Robin Hood: a tax whose time has come
The benefits of a tax on financial transactions are now so widely accepted that future generations will ask what took us so long http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/18/robin-hood-tax-financial-transactions?INTCMP=SRCH
January 10, 2011
The benefits of curbing bankers' bonuses
Even if restraints on bonuses do encourage high-flying bankers to leave Britain, would that be such a bad thing? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/10/banking-bonuses-britain-curbing
November 9, 2010