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The country’s economists have a quasi-religious fixation on the ‘black zero’, writes Peter Bofinger
If you had described your iPhone in 1976, Friedman would not have understood you
Expect more unintended consequences of central bank policies, warns John Plender
Index targeting is only convenient for advisers and consultants
‘Keynes was right to predict that we would be working less but overestimated for how long that trend would continue’
In elite circles it is becoming vulgar to flaunt workaholism and that view may be spreading
What matters is not whether the world will be well managed but whether calamity will be avoided
First editions of James Bond novels and other modern classics feature in price index by Stanley Gibbons
Reasonable dialogue requires a recognition of the tensions between short and long-term interests
To accept that one may at times be wrong is a mark not of stupidity but of intelligence
The economist was right in that we are better off but at the cost of our free time, writes Tim Harford
Growth’s guilty secret: the capitalist system is able to lift people out of poverty but struggles to create a just society
Richard Thaler on the economist as the true father of behavioural finance and ‘third level’ thinking
Countries seem unable to tackle structural issues
The subject is not, and should never be thought to be, a subject like philosophy, where the the value of the subjectvalue for students lies in the debate itself
This thoughtful biography does justice both to the economist’s idiosyncrasies and to his influence
Pioneers such as Sir Richard Branson can never calculate precise odds for their ventures
Billions of dollars are spent on experts who claim they can forecast what’s around the corner, in business, finance and economics. Most of them get it wrong. Now a groundbreaking study has unlocked the secret: it IS possible to predict the future – and a new breed of ‘superforecasters’ knows how to do it
To try to modify the rules is to reckon without human nature
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