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A hard Brexit would be a disaster for Britain’s economy, especially in a more protectionist Trump world – and we are already all poorer due to the pound’s plunge. My column for Prospect

Posted 18 Nov 2016 in Blog
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My piece for Prospect

Posted 09 May 2015 in Blog
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Prospect, April 2010. A new land tax is the only efficient and fair way to bring Britain’s finances back into line

Posted 10 Apr 2010 in Published articles
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Prospect, April 2009. Ha-Joon Chang’s suggestion that the world needs a dose of protectionism is utterly misguided

Posted 25 Mar 2009 in Published articles
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Prospect, October 2006. Apple’s threat to sue companies that use the word “Pod” in product names is reminiscent of the bully-boy tactics that made Microsoft so unpopular in the 1990s

Posted 21 Sep 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, September 2006. Disappointment at Doha, but it wasn’t all America’s fault. Is BP having too much bad luck? And Wolfowitz demands that the World Bank stops corruption

Posted 22 Aug 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, August 2006. Higher energy prices are likely to mean rising inflation and slower growth. Plus the misguided populism of EU commissioners

Posted 26 Jul 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, August 2006. Contrary to Robert Wade’s arguments, countries that open up their economies tend to prosper. We need to help more of them reap globalisation’s benefits

Posted 26 Jul 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, July 2006. Shareholder capitalism finally makes it into law. And the NGO’s flawed accountability charter shows they don’t practice what they preach

Posted 20 Jun 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, June 2006. David Cameron has joined in the Tesco-bashing, but the OFT should leave it alone. And the IMF is proving better at spin than at giving poorer countries votes

Posted 23 May 2006 in Published articles
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Prospect, May 2006. The outlook for the Doha round may not be as bad as it looks; why a dreary North sea gas pipeline is at the centre of things; and Gordon Brown’s productivity problem

Posted 20 Apr 2006 in Published articles
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Many French people rejected the constitution because they regard Brussels as the handmaiden of "ultra-liberal" Anglo-Saxon capitalism, intent on deregulating markets and opening up the French economy to competition. Just look, they say, at the EU’s proposed services directive, which would tear down barriers to trade in services, or at the eastward enlargement of the […]

Posted 01 Jun 2005 in Published articles
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Last month, Michael Lind argued that free-trade globalism locks in rich-world advantage and kicks away the ladder. He is wrong.

Posted 01 Feb 2003 in Published articles
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The IMF and the World Bank are lending institutions; they cannot be run by their borrowers. But they can listen more to poor countries.

Posted 01 Oct 2002 in Published articles
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Oxfam has brilliantly exposed the EU as the worst of trade hypocrites; but it’s a pity it still misreads the WTO.

Posted 01 Jun 2002 in Published articles
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Free trade is good for poor countries despite what protesters and protectionists claim. But there is less of it than most people think. Most trade is regional, not global, and next month’s WTO meeting in Doha is unlikely to change that.

Posted 01 Nov 2001 in Published articles
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An unholy alliance of greens, development lobbyists and old-fashioned protectionists is blasting the World Trade Organisation, often for contradictory reasons. But free trade is good for the rich, and better still for the poor – even when it is complicated by “cultural” issues such as food safety.

Posted 01 May 2000 in Published articles