As most of the media have reported, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that we really only have twelve years
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The age of empathy
I found this weekend depressing. Partly that was the result of having a ferocious cold. Partly it was lowish mood in anticipation of my father’s
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The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies – a new MMT resource centre
I am writing this when at the launch event of the Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies – which I think is an amazing new
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How much does the City of London cost the UK?
The Guardian features Nick Shaxson’s new book The Finance Curse as its Long Read this morning. In that article new research, including by my co-author Prof Andrew Baker
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The Finance Curse: the new book from Nick Shaxson
Nick Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands which is the most popular book on tax havens, has a new book out. This is the press
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A recipe for economic crisis
The IMF thinks there is a risk of a new global financial crisis. These things do, however, require tipping points. Here are tow potential such
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Investors are on a high that the IMF thinks profoundly misjudged: only one of them is right
Two headlines this morning. This from the FT: And this from the Guardian: Only one of these expressions of confidence or a lack of it can
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International Financial Reporting Standards should be consigned to history
Hans Hoogervorst, the chair of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, has written in the FT this morning arguing that: [Some critics of accounting standards
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The madness of HMRC and Border Force cuts as we face Brexit
According to Theresa May austerity has ended. According to Philip Hammond it has not. I know who I believe. And it is not the Prime Minister.
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