Those who are allowed to make offers to us should be scrutinized

This may or may not be a good idea

Our entire problem with climate change is that using technologies which emit carbon now is cheaper than...

If prices have gone up then something has changed in either demand or supply or both

No place has grown to wealth without a roughly capitalist, roughly free market system

There is nothing wrong with recycling. But it is actually impossible for a poor place to build an industrial...

We need a system that enables people to experiment, and in that way find out what works and what does...

The person or organization sending in the cheque is not necessarily the person really paying the

There's no treasure trove of natural resources, no particular reason why economic growth should occur....

There is a version of “trickle-down economics" which does actually work – nearly every...

A richer world removes that horror as a common experience

One of the programs losing funding as a result is Brac, which had been gaining some £29 million...

'That is really for those who come after us to decide, given that it will be them, not us, living...

Dhaka is not an expensive place to live. It is an expensive place to live if you want to live like you...

The most difficult one being that in one sense of course we want to tax menstrual products, in another...

Tales are not just about alternative universes

The current difficulty with vaccines is making them, not the permission to make them

When it makes a profit it is a good thing, when it needs subsidy it might well not be

Adding value and inter-temporal shifting are indeed the essence of agricultural development

'We would much prefer a world in which there was as much of everything as everyone needs. Even better,...

'In contrast to near everything else I say about life and the economy I argue we should set the price...