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How technology changed work, the workplace, and contracts
Richard Baldwin, 24 April 2019

Richard Baldwin discusses how digital technology has changed the nature of work, and how and where we do it.
The destination-based cash flow tax: A negative-revenue tax?
David Laborde, William Martin, 18 April 2019

David Laborde and Will Martin identify serious problems with the proposal to combine features of a VAT and a wage subsidy, especially for countries where the direct government revenue implications are strongly negative.
Why have pundits got politics so wrong since 2015?
Simon Wren-Lewis, 16 April 2019

Simon Wren-Lewis asks why pundits failed to see how far right the Conservatives were moving under Cameron, and the subsequent rise of Corbyn in 2015 and Labour’s gains during the 2017 campaign.
No ordinary woman
Diane Coyle, 09 April 2019

Diane Coyle reviews a biography of Edith Penrose written by her daughter-in-law, Angela Penrose.

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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.
Bridging the divide between developed and developing countries in WTO negotiations

Anabel González, 19 March 2019

Anabel González argues that the “developed-developing” dichotomy does not serve the WTO membership well, and proposes some steps to help integrate developing countries in global trade.

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