Punk Economics: Britain – The Balkans of Europe?

When you have anti-English, pro-European nationalists in Scotland and anti-European, pro-British nationalists in England, spiced up with a few anti-English, pro-European nationalists in Wales and of course, the anti-each-other, pro-whatever your having yourself,...

Women’s wedges and the future of European Nation States

Will a European Tea Party emerge? The Financial Times this week believes so. What do you think? 2014 is a big year for Europe with parliamentary elections in June. The economies are still very weak, but financial markets are roaring ahead and Brussels is in triumphant...

Economics in the dock

To paraphrase JP Morgan, sometimes nothing undermines your financial judgement so much as an eejit with an economics degree. At its root, most economics – and economists – start with the fundamental assumption that people are rational, and thus will make...

Global Food Economics

My latest Punk Economics video takes some altitude and looks at the global food economy: where it is now, how we got here – and what we might see in the future. This is vital stuff for all of us – take a look and let me know what you think!