Two hundred years ago today, on 11 September 1823, the classical economist David Ricardo died at his grand country estate in the Cotswolds surrounded by his family. He was only 51 years old.
Tag: economics
London School of Economics professor, Susan Strange, who died in 1998 and recognised the growing systemic risks which led to the 2008 global financial crisis decades before most economists, is experiencing a revival of interest. But what are her big ideas?
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s has shaped almost every aspect of global affairs but is too often neglected.
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson’s recently published The Inner Level got me thinking about how to build a new vision for society.