Posts Tagged ‘development’
Book review translated into Swedish
21 Nov 2011Voltaire, a Swedish magazine, has published a translation of my recent spiked review of Charles Kenny’s Getting Better.
- Tags: development, economics, inequality, media appearances, review, spiked
Me vs “Small is beautiful”
16 Nov 2011I have an article in the Guardian’s “big ideas” series on EF Schumacher’s notion of “small is beautiful”.
Economic growth central to progress
11 Nov 2011This is my latest book review for spiked One of the most pervasive of contemporary myths is that the lot of humanity is worsening over the long term. Despite the mass of evidence to the contrary, it is still widely held that the world is becoming poorer, more miserable and facing environmental catastrophe. Simply for [...]
- Tags: development, growth, inequality, media appearances, spiked
Debating “prosperity without growth”
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9 Jun 2011My debate at the Battle of Ideas 2010 with Tim Jackson, the author of Prosperity without growth?, is now available to watch on video.
- Tags: development, economics, environment, speeches, Worldwrite
My take on Arab Spring
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6 Jun 2011There follows the opening paragraphs to my Fund Strategy cover story on the Arab Spring. The full article is available here Rising numbers of educated youth, surging food prices and a crisis in the legitimacy of regimes stoked unrest in Arab countries. But the region faces uncertainty and the process of change is likely to [...]
- Tags: development, economics, food, Fund Strategy, Middle East
Closing statements in elite debate
17 Feb 2011The closing statements in the Economist debate on the global elite are now up. My side of the motion has easily won the popular vote but for peculiar reasons. As the moderator concludes in his summing up: “we have a curious situation where the bulk of people expressing their views in the comments section seem [...]
- Tags: development, economics, growth, inequality, media appearances
Me leading Economist debate
8 Feb 2011I am opposing the motion that “the global elite serves the masses” in an Economist online debate. Please feel free to participate here.
Recording of Birmingham event
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29 Jan 2011My introduction to the Birmingham Salon debate on 11 January on whether economic growth is feasible or desirable is available to listen to here. It was particularly interesting to debate a mainstream development economist, Professor Somnath Sen, rather than a self-professed green. His ideas were completely in line with the “growth scepticism” I critique in [...]
- Tags: development, growth, speeches
The more growth the better
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17 Jan 2011This is my latest comment from Fund Strategy. One of the most striking features of the global economy in recent years is the performance gap between the developing world and the West. Although the advanced economies are starting from a much higher base, the poorer countries are growing faster. Every year since 2000 emerging and [...]
- Tags: development, environment, Fund Strategy, growth
Articles of note
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16 Jan 2011Branko Milanovic on economic inequality between nations and peoples, the Browser, interview by Anna Blundy. The author of a new book on inequality and World Bank economist recommends books by John Rawls, John Hobson, Angus Maddison, Paul Bairoch and Aldo Schiavone. The inequality that matters, the American Interest, by Tyler Cowen. Argues that the key [...]
- Tags: book, development, economics, finance, happiness, inequality
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