1981, BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Brasenose College, Oxford; 1987, MA; 1983, AM and 1985, PhD in Economics, Harvard Univ. 1981-85, Research Assistant, Nat'l Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge; 1985-86, Senior Economic Assistant, HM Treasury; 1986-88, Senior Economist, DRI Europe; 1988-89, Intern, The Economist; 1989-93, European Editor, Investors Chronicle. The Independent 1993- 2001. Founder, Enlightenment Economics. Professor of Economics, University of Manchester. Member of Council, Royal Economic Society; Trustee of Centre for Economic Policy, NIESR, ProBono Economics & CORE Economics. Member of American Economic Association and Society of Business Economists. Fellow Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce. Author of numerous publications inc. GDP, A Brief But Affectionate History. OBE, 2009.
This has been a brutal year, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing governments around the world to close down many aspects of normal everyday life while supporting workers and businesses wit...
The word “productivity” typically calls to mind industrial assembly lines pumping out cars or washing machines, breakfast cereal or shoes. The word may also conjure images of crops being ...
Do we know how economies develop? Obviously not, it seems, or otherwise every country would be doing better than it currently is in these low-growth times. In fact, cases of sustained rap...
Mainstream economics has largely failed to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation, and it is struggling to find practical ways to address the growing power of dominant tech...
Is the world becoming increasingly prosperous? It would be hard to answer “yes” right now, at least so far as the leading high-income economies are concerned. Yet the longstanding bellwet...
In 1831, when Charles Darwin boarded The Beagle for its five-year voyage of exploration, ships navigated with the help of chronometers, which showed the precise time at a reference locati...
最近十年来，当发达国家的旅客来到低收入国家游玩时，最令他们难忘的就是智能手机以及移动互联网的普及。移动科技在亚非拉国家的社会和经济发展中扮演了重要的作用——法国、英国这样的西欧国家在上世纪70年代也经历了相同的过程。家庭关系、社会关系以及商业、教育机遇也随着移动科技的发展，一同发生了转变。
One of the striking changes any rich-world traveler to low-income countries cannot fail to have missed during the past decade or so is the rapid spread of mobile phone use, followed now b...
The idea that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is inadequate as a measure of economic well-being dates back to the 1960s, when environmentalists and feminist scholars pointed out some obvious...
Se suponía que la elección que acaba de tener lugar en el Reino Unido iba a arrojar -como decía el eslogan de campaña del Partido Conservador- un gobierno "fuerte y estable". Terminó cons...
近来，由于经济全球化和产业自动化让大众难以追赶时代趋势，人们开始逐渐担心民主制度的解构是否会遭到破坏。我觉得这样的担心不无道理，但事实上，这根本不是什么新的命题。早在上世纪80年代，民主制度的危机就已经产生了种种苗头，但那时我们并没意识到危险，更没有采取补救措施，直到如今危机真的来了我们才开始担忧。
近来，由于人们被全球化和自动化抛在身后而为民主的结构受到破坏担忧成为一种潮流。我认为这样的恐惧一定程度上是成立的，但这并非是一个新提出的问题，至少在上世纪80年代它就产生了。我们那时未能认识到它并采取措施便是如今它演化为危机的原因。
Watch a Special Address by Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
Globalisation, far from making the world flat, has thrown into sharper relief economic inequalities. It has made the geography of economic activity more rather than less salient.
Britain’s tallest mountain is Ben Nevis in Scotland. Recently, it became one metre taller, standing now at 1 345m rather than 1 344m above sea level. Of course, the mountain did not actua...
