From SPECIAL REPORTS Jun 13, 2013

Globalisation

A migrant worker eats lunch at a construction site in Hefei, east China's Anhui province ©Getty

For all its benefits in spreading wealth, globalisation has not come without drawbacks, making the process one of the most complex forces of modern times

Ingram Pinn illustration ©Ingram Pinn Jun 11, 2013

The overstated inflation danger

A high rate may be a risk in the very long run – but right now the risk is that it may be too low

Jun 6, 2013

UK must fix banks, not monetary policy

What is appealing in the short term may prove a big error in the longer term

Ingram Pinn illustration of Uncle Sam and Ben Bernanke ©Ingram Pinn Jun 4, 2013

America owes a lot to Bernanke

Fed critics lack imagination or are indifferent to what would have happened had it not acted

(from left to right) Huw Pill, Martin Wolf, Gavyn Davies From SPECIAL REPORTS Jun 2, 2013

World economy: Crises contained but challenges loom

Martin Wolf explores global growth scenarios with Gavyn Davies and Huw Pill

©Ingram Pinn May 28, 2013

Japan’s bumpy road to a recovery

Abe’s economic nationalism may clash with that of China

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne speaks at the Morrisons supermarket distribution centre in Sittingbourne, southern England ©Reuters May 23, 2013

Osborne should not be complacent

It is odd for the IMF to criticise the policies of a G7 member for being too tight

Ingram Pinn illustration May 21, 2013

The climate sceptics have already won

The real and present dangers are too uncomfortable to confront

J. McHugh illustration May 17, 2013

Capital gains fuel visions of a free London

Is it time Britain’s cash cow became a city-state?

May 14, 2013

Why the world faces climate chaos

We will watch the rise in greenhouse gases until it is too late to do anything about it

May 9, 2013

The time for a British decision is now

It is doubtful London could remain the continent’s financial capital if the UK quit the EU

May 7, 2013

The German model is not for export

Forcing the eurozone to mimic Germany’s path to adjustment makes stagnation likely

Apr 30, 2013

Why the Baltic states are no model

What is possible for small, open economies is close to impossible for the large and relatively closed

Apr 25, 2013

The pros and cons of a floating currency

The UK has monetary and fiscal policy autonomy but had little adjustment in the current account

Apr 23, 2013

Austerity loses an article of faith

The UK industrial revolution shows the Reinhart-Rogoff thesis on debt is not always right

Apr 16, 2013

How central banks beat deflation

The success of inflation targeting gives policy makers room to risk expansionary measures

Apr 11, 2013

Britain should not go back to the future

The UK has been left an economy with a remarkably late-19th century look

Apr 9, 2013

Japan’s unfinished policy revolution

Tokyo’s economic system is a machine for generating high private savings

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Apr 8, 2013

Thatcher: the great transformer

Pragmatic politician who defended free markets

Apr 2, 2013

Why China’s economy might topple

As Japan has shown, shifting to a lower-growth model is risky

ABOUT MARTIN

Martin Wolf Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.

He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was a member of the UK government's Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-2011. Martin's most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance.

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