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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 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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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

America’s inequality need not determine the future of Britain

Sinking into the ‘great stagnation’

A disastrous failure at the summit

Bob Diamond in an unconvincing defence

Germany has to make a fateful choice

Mind the gap: the perils of forecasting output

Merkozy failed to save the eurozone

What the IMF should tell Europe

The UK now faces a ‘lost decade’

Why cutting fiscal deficits is an assault on profits

To the eurozone: advance or risk ruin

Europe must not allow Rome to burn

Bob Diamond’s unconvincing defence

Thinking through the unthinkable

Creditors can huff but they need debtors

The big questions raised by anti-capitalist protests

Be bold, Mario, put out that fire

There is no sunlit future for the euro

‘Eclipse’

Time has come for some intelligent policymaking

First aid is not a cure

How to keep the euro on the road

Time to think the unthinkable and start printing again

Fear and loathing in the eurozone

Why breaking up is so hard to do

Of course it’s right to ringfence rogue universals

Time for Germany to make its fateful choice

We must listen to what bond markets tell us

Britain must escape its longest depression

Struggling with a great contraction