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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 associate member of the governing body of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and a special 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.
Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize for 1994, the “Accenture Decade of Excellence” at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003 and the Newspaper Feature of the Year Award at the Workworld Media Awards 2003. On December 1 2005 he was given First Magazine’s “Special Advocacy Award” at its annual “Award for Responsible Capitalism”. In January 2008, he won the AMEC Lifetime achievement Award at the Workworld Media Awards for 2007. He came second equal in the Royal Statistical Society’s awards for statistical excellence in journalism for 2008, in the category for print and online journalism. He won the “Commentator of the Year” award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008. He was also placed among the world’s 100 leading public policy intellectuals by the British magazine Prospect and the US magazine, Foreign Policy in May 2008. He won the Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2009. He won the “Commentariat of the Year” prize at the inaugural UK Comment Awards in October 2009 and was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in “giant newspapers” at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
His most recent publications are Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, 2004) and Fixing Global Finance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 and Yale University Press, 2009).
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Martin Wolf’s latest columns
- -Crisis must not change India’s course
A vast, poor country can still generate rapid growth by catching up on high-income countries, regardless of the global environment, writes Martin Wolf
End this masochism in economic policymaking
Put blame to one side. The question is whether anything should, or can, be done. My answer remains a definite yes, writes Martin Wolf
Europe is stuck on life support
The ECB has saved the eurozone from a heart attack. But its members face a long convalescence, writes Martin Wolf
The world’s hunger for public goods
It is unclear whether today’s states can – or will be allowed to – provide the goods we now demand, writes Martin Wolf
Yet another year of living dangerously
What can we see in the world economy in 2012? Risks galore, writes Martin Wolf
Seven ways to fix the system’s flaws
The shocks inflicted on the world by the upheavals of the past few years make a thoroughgoing overhaul urgent, argues Martin Wolf
Scotland needs to judge the costs of independence
The Scots needs to understand that breaking free would deprive them of the benefits of pooling resources, writes Martin Wolf
Why the super-Marios need help
The costs of failure are so large that the possibility of domestic and eurozone reform must be kept alive, writes Martin Wolf
Hopes in emerging countries
The speed of convergence in incomes per head is driving extraordinary divergence in growth between incumbents and newcomers, writes Martin Wolf
The 2012 recovery: handle with care
Looking at the battered high-income countries, is there a good reason to expect healthy outcomes? Not really, says Martin Wolf
