Should we advocate for democracy as an innate human right?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A human right is not something that can be traded off for something else. Rights are absolute, there are no caveats and they must be upheld regardless. Democracy is often […]
An Interview with Michael Spence, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Reading Time: 9 minutes I had the privilege of being able to interview Michael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. A professor at the business schools of New York University […]
“Good Economics for Hard Times” by Duflo and Banerjee
Reading Time: 3 minutes Good Economics for Hard Times is the second general readership publication of the husband and wife, Nobel-prize winning pair of Duflo and Banerjee. Their first book, Poor Economics, published in […]
The Bitcoin Bubble
Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2008 the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin was launched. While still providing a means for exchanges and the store of value, cryptocurrencies have the distinct advantage of being decentralised as opposed […]
Lessons from the crash and today’s trends in Western monetary policy
Reading Time: 5 minutes The coronavirus pandemic, and the ensuing economic crisis, has provoked unprecedented responses from policy makers, no more so than from central banks. The Federal Reserve’s major actions include purchasing up […]
Interview with Oliver Hart
Reading Time: 8 minutes Professor Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics Harvard University. He specialises in contract theory and the theory of the firm, having served as the President of […]
The Rationality of Irrationality
Reading Time: 4 minutes Reinhard Selten, 1994 Nobel prize and founding father of experimental economics, predicted that individuals wouldn’t play the conventional Nash Equilibrium in the Ultimatum Game, better known as a take-it-or-leave-it offer. […]
What’s the big deal about Huawei?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forgot Johnson and Johnson’s, or Wells Fargo, Huawei has been the most notorious and controversial company of at least the last few years. Boris Johnson’s decision on 28 January to […]
The Hyper-Digitalisation of Covid-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes “A reminder that the virus does not discriminate, we are all at risk.” These were the words UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove presented to the public when Prime Minister […]
The Struggle of Belarus
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alexander Lukashenko has been president since the establishment of the role and the office in 1994, following his election into the supreme council of the now defunct republic of Belarus. […]