The ‘dismal science’ tag does not seem to apply to the science of forecasting

Why is it we can find the Higgs Boson, but can’t fix the euro?

As they saying goes, if you want to enjoy a sausage, it’s better not to know what’s in it

Do financial systems abide by a completely different set of rules?

Economists need to realise the importance of incorporating human emotion

France and Germany are running out of time in stalling Greece’s default

For the first time the future of the global economy lies in the hands of poor countries

The process of balance-sheet repair – while not completed yet – is underway

The debt-to-GDP obsession is driven by inattention and misinformation

When does family business become crony capitalism?

There are enough sustainable resources for much bigger national economies

We need to understand the differences between trade and financial globalisation

Boosting competition is helpful only if accompanied by strong regulation and incentives to promote investment

In successive waves of painful crisis – in Latin America in the 1980s, and in East Asia after 1997 – countries learned a better
approach to economic policy and developed a more sustainable framework for managing public-sector debt. Today it is Europe’s turn

It may be unfair to label Irish policy anti-Keynesian