Global Economics And Structures

If you're looking for an example for the kind of global economic uncertainty we live in, the Swiss central banks announcement about plan...

This post argues (again) that there is no way ahead for the global economy without theoretical innovation. The trouble is that the wave of...

Th global economy's outlook: as if the 24 months since the summer of 2009 have flown by in one minute. Not much changed. The future of...

What passes these days as monetary policy in the US and in the Eurozone is going to be a complete disaster for developing countries. Just th...

(Book review of ‘The Future of Finance. The LSE Report’ -- you can download it here ) Hmm. What a perfect moment! An near-perfect crisis o...

Two global economics observations about the ineptitude of economic policy. First, we knew about the credit crunch for at least a 15-18 mon...

A central question of global economics concerns the architecture of policy institutions. If you regard the global socio-economic system as a...

(Report from my friend, Balazs Szendroi ) "Knowledge Is Power" (Motto painted on the walls of thousands of schools around rural ...

And now onto financial regulation ? Europe is poised to win from stalemate of the US Senate. The fallout from the success of the US health...

Finally Obama might have some global consequences... The crisis offered hope about the global reform. Although we are still struggling wit...

(The past two months I have been working on some exceptionally interesting problems, and hence the absence from the blog. Here is one to the...

(The Green-Shoot Worm And The Abracadabra Herd) It is almost as interesting to follow the way the commentators of the global economy keep ...

"Obama damps hopes for final treaty on climate change at Copenhagen" Grrrrrr. The week starts with yet more global procrastina...

(Notes from the Papuan Highlands, from about a year ago) Imagine that globalisation had turned out differently. It had been not European ...

A fantastic Nature page on Global Boundaries . The only missing item is the human society and global economics... This Nature publication ...

(Two notes on diversity.) Note one. The we are making a mistake by focusing on carbon. Carbon is easy. The claim that the carbon problem...

(Funny how an idea that looked so strange and impossible even a few years ago, is self evident now.) A very odd thing is going on in the w...

(Two boats, a lot of waves, and one Mount Fuji) There’s a new law of global economics: the deeper you are in a crisis, the emptier the polic...

The silly talk is returning about emerging markets as the global economy is turning into a full-blown recovery mode. In particular, there is...

Once upon a time there lived a very very large dragon. This beast was the scariest of all creatures ever lived. It was taller than a house,...