The myth of growth

There are policies that seem to work and some that don’t. But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they kno

“History is just one f**king thing after another,” declares a vulgar schoolboy in Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys. Surveying the past 25 years can feel the same way. From Iraq to the euro crisis

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Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

I repeatedly come back to this subject because I think it is one of the most important yet overlooked issues in global finance. The geopolitical ramifications are enormous. Something that the Trump ad

Earlier this month the Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to three academics noted for exploring the two most urgent practical questions in their discipline: why do economies grow, and how can we h