Philippe Legrain

My latest column for Foreign Policy

He claims “a sustained recovery is taking hold” in the eurozone. Really? My column for Foreign Policy

My latest column for Foreign Policy

From Greece to Spain to France, radical parties are making gains. And the Eurocrats have no one to blame but themselves. My latest column for Foreign Policy

Europe needs stimulus. But quantitative easing won’t make the eurozone’s real problems go away. My column for Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy, 21 January 2015. Europe needs stimulus. But quantitative easing won’t make the eurozone’s real problems go away.

Foreign Policy, 8 January 2015. You don’t have to be a radical leftist to get that Athens needs debt relief. And a Syriza victory in this month’s elections might be the only way to get it.

You don’t have to be a radical leftist to get that Athens needs debt relief. And a Syriza victory in this month’s elections might be the only way to get it. My column for Foreign Policy

ForeignPolicy.com, May 2007. From phantom security enhancements to a complicated points system that only a bureaucrat could love, the immigration compromise before the US Senate is worse than nearly every realistic alternative except one: more of the same.

Markets do not exist in a vacuum; they operate in a social, political, and legal context. That insight – obvious to thinkers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, but forgotten in the zeal to fashion economics into a science more like physics than sociology – lies behind the revival in recent decades of the […]