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Richard Davis talks about his new book, Extreme Economies. ... Read more...
19 September 2019
To find the world's most extreme economies you generally have to travel far from the beaten track. There is one exception to this rule, a city closer to home that was described best by Sean Connery in The Bowler and the ... Read more...
14 September 2019
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30 August 2019
Article by Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy. Currency unions usually go hand in hand with deeper economic integration. But does that automatically mean more international trade? This column shows that since the en... Read more...
09 July 2018
Article by Philippe Aghion and Beneficte Berner: French President Emmanuel Macron was elected with a clear mandate to reform the French economy, and he has not hesitated to target politically sensit... Read more...
08 May 2018
In March, the FCA launched a cryptocurrency task force with the Bank of England to explore how to regulate and control the cryptocurrency sector. It planned to release an analytical report on cryptocurrencies ... Read more...
27 April 2018
Cointelegraph reached out to MIT Professor of Economics John van Reenen OBE to give his take on the move by the British Treasury and the touted cryptocurrency taskforce. The renowned economist painted a slight... Read more...
28 March 2018
Tom Kirchmaier, professor of finance at the London School of Economics, said the risks of a bitcoin crash could be amplified for CFD speculators. “Just stay out of it,” he said, adding that bitcoin... Read more...
04 January 2018
The recent London-based Economics Research Center (CEP), the London-based Economics University of London, has shown that the unexpected market and real economy shock of the last year's referendum on Britis... Read more...
29 December 2017
Drawing on India’s previous experiences of demonetisation and contemporary data, Swati Dhingra and Amartya Menon argue the benefits seem few and far between. They write that if the government is serious ... Read more...
30 November 2016
Professor Saul Estrin of the London School of Economics has shown, for example, that an increase in the level of employee participation in the running of an enterprise from zero to full participation increases output by ... Read more...
02 August 2016
A bad few days for the image of Britain's retail sector PARLIAMENTARY committees are normally sleepy affairs. Backbench MPs get the chance to grill the occasional bigwig. By replying to questions succinctly witnesses ty... Read more...
11 June 2016
... Top economists echoed the TUC's concerns yesterday ... Growth in recent years has been ''anaemic'', according to University College London's Professor Stephen Machin, and research director at the Centre for Economic ... Read more...
01 August 2015
WHEN Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979 she set about bulldozing the trade unions, which had frequently brought Britain grinding to a standstill in the 1970s. On May 27th David Cameron indicated that his Conservativ... Read more...
30 May 2015
According to Bank of England, earnings should be rising by 4 percent a year, but they are struggling to get above 2 percent - it is time the government and employers tilted wages in favour of labour. There was a time, ... Read more...
29 March 2015
Demand for new laws to defeat unions: Prof Alan Manning from the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, said: "There are many areas of conflict between the public sector and government. They are unlikely to be re... Read more...
02 December 2011