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    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Financial Times
      Sir Samuel Brittan Fellowship

      Journalism fellowship for economics journalists

    • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Samuel Brittan made a unique contribution

      A passionate believer in freedom and true intellectual, he transformed economic journalism in the UK and beyond

    • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Equities up on Biden outlook, US bank earnings, UK lockdowns

      Investors are assessing US presidential election polls that show a strong lead for Joe Biden

    • Monday, 12 October, 2020
      Obituary
      Samuel Brittan, economics editor, 1933-2020

      His Financial Times columns were essential reading for anyone wanting to understand policy for nearly 50 years

    • Monday, 22 February, 2016
      Brexit
      Britain and Europe: The view from the FT archive

      The UK’s four tumultuous decades of membership have fuelled controversy and featured huge change

    • Tuesday, 29 September, 2015
      Whitehall reform
      Kerslake review echoes Wilson’s efforts to curb Treasury’s power

      Peer says he wants to determine how ministry can ‘deliver sustained growth and a fairer society’

    • Thursday, 19 June, 2014
      Property sector
      Sacrifice the greenbelt to fix  the broken property market

      Let us build garden cities – but we cannot build enough to prevent a housing bubble

    • Friday, 25 April, 2014
      Global Economy
      UK economy gear shift is reminiscent of 1970s boom

      Samuel Brittan considers parallels in pre-election growth under chancellors Osborne and Barber

    • Tuesday, 1 April, 2014
      FT AlphavilleCardiff Garcia
      Readings from the book of Sam
    • Friday, 28 March, 2014
      Off MessageWorld
      Ode to Sam
    • Thursday, 13 March, 2014
      UK Budget
      This Budget is George Osborne’s last chance to leave his mark

      UK chancellor will have to balance his austere instincts against political pressure to ‘do something’

    • Sunday, 9 March, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘GDP’, by Diane Coyle

      Economists’ obsession over gross domestic product gives the concept an unnecessary air of mystification

    • Thursday, 20 February, 2014
      Global Economy
      A Swift lesson in the principles of economics

      Science and technology influence living standards but government still has a role

    • Thursday, 6 February, 2014
      UK Budget
      The state should come with a clear price tag

      After the chancellor has delivered the Budget we never know whether we are richer or poorer

    • Thursday, 23 January, 2014
      Global Economy
      Banish ‘inequality’ from the economist’s lexicon

      True equality may not not even be possible in death – Mozart was buried in a paupers’ grave

    • Thursday, 9 January, 2014
      Global Economy
      The economic soothsayers possess no crystal ball

      There are not many easily falsifiable theories in macroeconomics, so some prefer the micro side

    • Thursday, 26 December, 2013
      World
      Cattle look good on gift cards, but look like poor investments

      If one analysis is correct, the continued existence of cows disproves the main tenets of capitalism

    • Thursday, 12 December, 2013
      UK GDP
      Britain is growing – this is no time for a stimulus

      The current period is reminiscent of 1937, when Keynes said the time was wrong to boost spending

    • Thursday, 28 November, 2013
      UK business & economy
      Conservatives and the cult of home-ownership

      Promoting house-buying is a form of stimulus that does not overtly add to the fiscal deficit

    • Thursday, 14 November, 2013
      Currencies
      Inflation is an unpleasant side effect, not the cure

      It makes no sense to aim for a high rate in order to create jobs

    • Friday, 23 August, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Review: ‘Mass Flourishing’

      A defence of competitive markets is also a call to keep the faith

    • Sunday, 3 February, 2013
      Gavyn Davies' blogGavyn Davies
      Who is afraid of currency wars?
    • Sunday, 27 January, 2013
      Global Economy
      Economic policy revived on the internet
    • Thursday, 20 September, 2012
      Gavyn Davies' blogGavyn Davies
      Macro blogroll for the morning meeting
    • Friday, 13 July, 2012
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Unequal measures

      Joseph Stiglitz’s proposals to curb the wealth of the top 1 per cent go too far for Samuel Brittan

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