Blogs&Reviews

Is Brexit a culture war or a class war?
Simon Wren-Lewis, 11 July 2019

Simon Wren-Lewis argues that the conceptualisation of Brexit as essentially a culture war and not a class war is powerful and contains a lot of truth, but it leaves some puzzles unresolved.
The EU-Mercosur trade accord sends a signal to the world’s protectionists
Anabel González, 05 July 2019

Anabel González describes how the agreement between the EU and Mercosur to lower trade barriers is an important accomplishment for both parties
The technology trap
Diane Coyle, 03 July 2019

Diane Coyle reviews Carl Frey's "The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation", which has a rather pessimistic outlook on future prospects for work and incomes.
Harnessing technology for more robust and inclusive growth: An agenda for change
Zia Qureshi, 27 June 2019

Zia Qureshi introduces a new report which argues that the slowdown in productivity growth and the rise in income inequality are linked by common causes and call for common solutions.

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No ordinary woman

Diane Coyle, 09 April 2019

Diane Coyle reviews a biography of Edith Penrose written by her daughter-in-law, Angela Penrose.
Francis Fukuyama against mainstream economics

Branko Milanovic, 02 April 2019

Branko Milanovic highlights a number of views on economics from Francis Fukuyama’s "The origins of political order", many directly critical of some mainstream nostrums.
Crash-out would be worse than they think

David Warsh, 29 March 2019

David Warsh shares the thoughts of Peter Murrell, author of "The Nature of Socialist Economies: Lessons from Eastern European Foreign Trade", on how economists might look to the experience of Czechoslovakia when attempting to forecast the effects of Brexit.
Economists, utilitarians, and individuals

Diane Coyle, 26 March 2019

Diane Coyle reviews Elizabeth Anderson’s "Value in Ethics and Economics", which points out the limitations of the focus on individual choice with too little attention in economics to social influence.
Formal and actual similarities between climate change and global inequality, and suboptimality of the nation-state

Branko Milanovic, 20 March 2019

Branko Milanovic argues that in the case of both climate change and global inequailty, we are trying to devise ‘second-best’ solutions, mostly because of a political limitation called the nation-state.