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Patterns of sustainable specialization and trade

A new paradigm for understanding unemployment and recessions.
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The future of European Monetary Union

John Chown on the background behind the Eurozone crisis and the currency's long-term prospects.
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The law of opposites: Illusory profits in the financial sector

How bad accounting regulation has created illusory profits and perverse incentives for banks.
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Renewable energy: Vision or mirage?

Can renewable energy deliver for the UK's energy needs? This report assesses the potential in renewable energy and finds that there is no prospect that renewable energy will be able to provide.
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Don't abolish the pension, abolish the pension age

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Once, when I was on the radio during the autumn’s public sector trouble, a teacher representing the trade union... Read on
Is this the monetary system we deserve?

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Jock Coats has a dilemma: We had our coursework assignment for Macroeconomics 1. I could have some fun with this...... Read on
Any plans for this decade?

Written by Jan Boucek

I’m sure the folks in Brussels-land mean well with every intention of making the world a better place but you do wonder... Read on

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More Sex is Safer Sex - and Other Surprises from Economic Theory

Monday 20 February 2012