Posts Tagged ‘china’
Eurozone impact on world economy
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23 Jan 2012This is my latest Perspective column for Fund Strategy. What is the impact of the eurozone crisis likely to be on the rest of the world? Much commentary in recent months has focused on the 17 countries that use the euro but relatively little has discussed the broader effect of the region’s woes. There are [...]
This could get ugly
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18 Oct 2011News that China’s growth rate is slowing comes at a bad time for the world economy. Hopefully it is just a dip but some, such as Lombard Street Research, are arguing the Asian giant is entering a period of stagflation (stagnation combined with high inflation). Such a development would be bad news at any time [...]
My response in Shanghai Daily
14 Jun 2011Shanghai Daily has published my response to the critical article on Ferraris for All by Wang Yong, the newspaper’s comment editor. I am not sure if the guy with the mortar board and Ferrari in the accompanying illustration is meant to be me. I have also pasted the text of the article below. WALKING along [...]
- Tags: china, media appearances
Attack on Ferraris from China
4 Jun 2011Criticism of FFA from an unexpected source: an opinion column on the book in Shanghai Daily.
- Tags: book, china, media appearances, review
Articles of note
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15 Aug 2010Anti-growth stance a misty nostalgia, the Australian, by Michael Stuchbury. A rebuttal to attacks on growth and fears about immigration in Australia. Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings, spiked, by James Woudhuysen. Advanced biofuels could play a big role in tackling the problem of flight and climate change. Can China be green?, the Diplomat. [...]
- Tags: articles of note, book, china, consumption, environment, growth, happiness, inequality, spiked, technology, transport
Spiked article on Chinese workers
11 Aug 2010My latest article, on the western media’s perverse support for class struggle in China, is live on spiked.
- Tags: china, consumption, ethics, media appearances, spiked, trade, work
RCM link to China comment
3 Aug 2010Today’s Real Clear Markets includes a link to my Fund Strategy comment on the western media’s perverse support for strikes by Chinese workers (see yesterday’s first post).
- Tags: china, Fund Strategy, media appearances
Media supports industrial militancy
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2 Aug 2010This is my comment from the latest Fund Strategy. Those who rejoiced at the end of working class militancy could be in for a nasty shock when they realise what is happening. Influential voices in the West are starting to express sympathy with strike action for higher wages. The Financial Times was perhaps the first [...]
- Tags: china, consumption, development, Fund Strategy
Book Monitor: Chinese inequality
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27 Jul 2010Martin King Whyte, a professor of sociology at Harvard, has written a fascinating sounding study of perceptions of inequality in China. The Myth of the Social Volcano (Stanford UP) is based on the first systematic national survey of Chinese citizins which was carried on in 2004 According to a discussion of the book in the [...]
- Tags: book, china, development, inequality
Attitudes to Chinese growth
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22 Jul 2010The latest survey from the Pew Global Attitudes Project suggests that many people see China’s growing economy as problematic (fourth table down). Some 47% of Americans, 42% of Britons and 58% of Germans see China’s growing economy as a bad thing. Several other countries also feel threatened by China’s economic rise including Turkey (60%), India [...]
- Tags: china, development, growth
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