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Volume 13, Number 1, 2012
Editorial: The Scandalous State of State Accounting
Brian Sturgess

Government Accounting
Making Enron look good
Ian Ball & Gary Pflugrath

Avoiding Fiscal Crisis
Accounting for contingent liabilities to manage fiscal risk
Hana Polackova Brixi

How to Have Your Cake and Eat It
Government accounting for PFI
James Cuthbert & Margaret Cuthbert

How Much Red Ink?
Comparing economic and accounting approaches to measuring government deficit and debt
James L. Chan & Yunxiao Xu

America’s Dangerously Opaque Public Accounting Systems
Avantika Chilkoti

Reforming Japan’s Foreign Exchange Policy
Masanaga Kumakura

The Indices of Transparency of Economic Information and the Latin American e-Government
César Daniel Vargas Diaz, Manuel Antonio López Hernandez & El Housin Helal Ouriachen

Sovereign Credit Risk in the Eurozone
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar

The New Dynamic Between US Stock Prices and Money Holdings
Frank Browne & David Cronin

Can Global Payments for Ecosystem Services Work?
Edward B. Barbier

Managing Capital Surges
Graham Bird

Volume 12, Number 4, 2011
India’s Post-Liberalisation Blues
Deepak Lal

Raising Consumption, Maintaining Growth and Reducing Emissions
The objectives and challenges of China’s radical change in strategy and its implications for the world economy
Nicholas Stern

Counting the Bottom Billion
Measuring the Wealth and Progress of African Economies
Morten Jerven & Morten Jerven

The Shadow Economy Labour Force
What do we (not) know?
Friedrich Schneider

Economic and Monetary Union Governance
A Post-Crisis Assessment
Irene Kyriakopoulos

Greece and Ireland
A comparison of their economic policies and economic prospects
Michael Mitsopoulos & Theodore Pelagidis

Currency Wars
Rhetoric and Reality
Graham Bird & Thomas D. Willett

Foreign Assistance and Economic Growth
Evidence from Pakistan 1972-2010
Muhammad Abdul Wahab & Vaqar Ahmed

Does Government Spending Crowd Out Private Consumption and Investment?
Theory and some empirical evidence
Davide Furceri & Ricardo M. Sousa

The Diseconomies of Terrorism
Peter J. Phillips

Keith Boyfield on Stephen Ellis: Season of Rains: Africa in the World. Diane Flaherty and Bill Gibson on Sylvia Nasar: Grand Pursuit:
The Story of Economic Genius.


Volume 12, Number 3, 2011
Currency Valuation and Purchasing Power Parity
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar

Should Argentina be Welcomed Back by Investors?
Arturo C. Porzecanski

The Argentine Productivity Slowdown
The challenges after global financial collapse
Ariel Coremberg

House Price Indices: Does Measurement Matter?
Mick Silver

Indian Wholesale and Consumer Price Indices
Brian Sturgess

The Crisis in Latvia
Reasons and consequences
Igors Kasjanovs & Anna Kasjanova

China Investment Corporation’s Post-Crisis Investment Strategy
Friedrich Wu, Christine Goh & Ruchi Hajela

Adjustment in the Global Economy
José De Gregorio

The Great Depression, the Great Recession and the Next Crisis
Professor Chong-Yah Lim & Hui-Ying Sng

Prospects for the Evolution of Global Reserves
Graham Bird

Shibley Rahman on Carol Graham: The Pursuit of Happiness: Toward an Economy of Well-Being
Shibley Rahman

Graham Bird on Fault Lines and Fractures Threatening the World Economy
Graham Bird

Volume 12, Number 2, 2011
Guest Editorial
Introduction to special issue on Africa
Keith Boyfield

Boosting Infrastructure Investments in Africa
Donald Kaberuka

Trade Out of Poverty
Peter Lilley, Clare Short, Sir Menzies Campbell & Michael Hastings

Connecting the African Continent
Infrastructure, growth and poverty reduction
Peter Dearden, Nemat Shafik & Leonard Tedd

The European Union’s Trade Policies and Africa’s Exports
Olayinka Idowu Kareem

Malthus Postponed
The potential to promote palm oil production in Africa
Keith Boyfield & Inna Ali

A New Challenge
The myriad new opportunities offered by East Africa’s oil and gas basin
Ziwase Ndhlovu

Vibrant Africa Continues to Attract
The economic potential of Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa
Funmi Akinluyi

Sub-Saharan Africa
Outlook and challenges
Veronica Kalema

Africa’s Water
Big issues with big consequences for a big continent
Roderick Mackenzie

Global Financial Crisis, Protectionism and Current Account Deficit
South Africa on the brink?
Peter Draper, Andreas Freytag & Sebastian Voll

Further Fallout from the Global Financial Crisis
Credit crunch in the 'periphery'
Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Raphael Espinoza & Heiko Hesse

Africa
The next success story?
Joe Downie

The International Liquidity Crisis of 2008–2009
William A. Allen & Dr Richhild Moessner

Managing Today’s Global Economy
The world economy as a commons
F. Gerard “Jerry” Adams

Volume 12, Number 1, 2011
Why is the Chinese Saving Rate so High?
Guonan Ma & Wang Yi

On Economic Growth and Domestic Saving in India
Tarlok Singh

Recent Developments on the Rare Earth Front
Evidence of a new technocratic mercantilism emerging in China?
Robert Looney

Communist China’s Capitalism
The highest stage of capitalist imperialism
Kenneth Austin

The Power of Price Indexes
And how to use them to steal a hundred billion dollars, seriously underestimate Japanese growth for 20 years and escape easily from debt
Raymond Cheung and Mike Waterson

Defence R&D Spending
A critical review of the economic data
Keith Hartley

Towards New Thinking in Economics
Terry Barker on structural macroeconomics, climate change mitigation, the relevance of empirical evidence and the need for a revised economics discipline
Şerban Scrieciu

Low-Carbon Development for the Least Developed Countries
Alex Bowen & Sam Fankhauser

Punishing European Cartels
Cento Veljanovski

Understanding the Greek Crisis
Unlocking the puzzle of Greek banks’ deteriorating performance
Michael Mitsopoulos & Theodore Pelagidis

The G20 After the Seoul Summit
G-force or G-string?
Graham Bird

Christopher Adam on James M. Broughton and Domenico Lombardi (eds) Finance, Development, and the IMF.


Volume 11, Number 4, 2010
Savings for the Poor
Banking on mobile phones
Ignacio Mas

A Rising Consumer Class
A perspective on India
Manish Sonthalia

Trade and Growth in the Post-Crisis World
Ronald U. Mendoza

The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis
Bob McKee

The Euro Crisis
It isn’t just fiscal and it doesn’t just involve Greece
Clas Wihlborg, Thomas D. Willett & Nan Zhang

Financial Crises and Social Spending
The impact of the 2008–2009 crisis
Maureen Lewis & Marijn Verhoeven

Why Hasn’t the US Economic Stimulus Been More Effective?
The debate on tax and expenditure multipliers
F. Gerard Adams & Byron Gangnes

The IMF and the Challenges it Faces
Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands

It’s Time to Retire the US Military’s Retirement System
Chris Springer

José De Gregorio on Howard Davies and David Green: Banking on the Future. The Fall and Rise of Central Banking


Luca Einaudi on Paolo Guerrieri and Domenico Lombardi (eds): L’architettura del mondo nuovo, governance economica e sistema multipolare [The Architecture of the New World, Economic Governance and Multipolar System]


Scott A.J. MacDonald on Niall Ferguson: High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg


Volume 11, Number 3, 2010
Editorial: The Death of Demand


Paying the High Price of Active Management
A new look at mutual fund fees
Ross M. Miller

Faulting Internationally Coordinated Fiscal Stimulus
Anthony J. Makin

The Eurozone: What Now?
Graham Bird

The Temptation for Protectionism and American Trade Policy
Robert Carbaugh & Tyler Prante

Regionalising Infrastructure Reform in Developing Countries
Ioannis N. Kessides, Roger G. Noll & Nancy C. Benjamin

Economic Growth in Venezuela
Policies vs oil wealth
Claudio Paiva

Global Financial Crisis
A mid-year review of progress to date
Priya Nandita Pooran

The Collapse of Global Trade
What a tangled web we weave
Ann Spehar

The Work of Angus Maddison
Angus Maddison (1927–2010)
Sir Alan Peacock

Building on Angus Maddison’s Work
David Henderson

Özlem Öz on World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography


Keith Boyfield on Paul Collier: The Plundered Planet


Brian Sturgess on Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner: Superfreakonomics


Volume 11, Number 2, 2010
Debt and Deleveraging
The global credit bubble and its economic consequences
Susan Lund & Charles Roxburgh

Clearing the Fog
How useful are short-term economic indicators?
Simon Hayes & James Ashley

Greece and the State
Prometheus Bound?
Michael Massourakis

Greek Economic Statistics: A Decade of Deceit
So how come the rating agencies missed it again?
Brian Sturgess

The Economic Crisis and the Commonwealth
A review with analysis and solutions
Michael Chibba

The International Financial Architecture
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds

A Tale of Two Crises
Harold Lind

Green Stimulus, Green Recovery and Global Imbalances
Edward B. Barbier, PhD

Vietnam: From Transitional State to Asian Tiger?
Issues of the Vietnamese economic transformation experience
F. Gerard Adams & Anh Le Tran

To the editors of World Economics
Tim Congdon

Keith Boyfield on Dambisa Moyo: Dead Aid
Keith Boyfield

John Williamson on Carol Graham: Happiness Around the World
John Williamson

George Soros’ Reflexivity and the Global Financial Crisis
Thomas D. Willett

Volume 11, Number 1, 2010
Narrow Banking
John Kay

Monetary Policy at the Zero Bound
A discussion of the effectiveness of monetary policy, with comments on contributions from Keynes, Krugman and Bernanke
Tim Congdon

The Failures of Economics and the Emerging New Economics
Michael Chibba

Global Imbalances, the Financial Crisis and the International Monetary System
Ignazio Visco

Special Drawing Rights
How Fashions Change
Graham Bird

The Return of the 1970s?
Trade, globalisation and emerging protectionism since the crisis
Fredrik Erixon & Razeen Sally

Finance, Technology and Multinationals from the Periphery
An analysis of the Latin American experience
Edmund Amann & Werner Baer

The Chinese Renminbi (Yuan)
A new global currency in the making?
Friedrich Wu, Pan Rongfang & Wang Di

Carbon Commitments Must Translate into Real Action
Andrew Raingold

Maddison and Wu: ‘Measuring China’s Economic Performance’
Yuri Dikhanov & Eric V. Swanson

F. Gerard Adams on David Wessel: In Fed We Trust


Volume 10, Number 4, 2009
Volume 10, Number 3, 2009
The Secret of Canadian Banking: Common Sense?
Laurence Booth

The IMF, the Credit Crunch and Iceland
A new fiscal saga?
Sheetal K. Chand

The New Economic Powers (NEPs)
Leadership opportunities post-crisis
Danny Leipziger & William O’Boyle

Reforming IMF Conditionality
From ‘streamlining’ to ‘major overhaul’
Graham Bird

Well-being and Public Attitudes in Afghanistan
Some insights from the economics of happiness
Carol Graham & Soumya Chattopadhyay

Reasons for Remitting
Oded Stark

Are MENA Countries Reaping the Benefits of Inflows?
A comparative analysis of migrants’ remittances and FDI flows
Magda Kandil & Ida Aghdas Mirzaie

Global Climate Change
F. Gerard Adams

Lynne Nikolychuk on Gerben Bakker: Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Idustry, 1890-1940
Lynne Nikolychuk

Michael C. Macchiarola on Stephen H. Axilrod: Inside the Fed – Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin Through Greenspan to Bernanke
Michael C. Macchiarola

Volume 10, Number 2, 2009
Will Economic Recovery Drive up World Oil Prices?
Growth versus resource availability and the world petroleum market
F. Gerard Adams

Quantitative Easing
Will it generate demand or inflation?
Colin Ellis

How Many US Jobs Might be Offshorable?
Alan S. Blinder

Governance and Development
The current role of theory, policy and practice
Michael Chibba

Understanding Crime, Political Uncertainty and Stock Market Returns
A case study of the Colombian stock market
Juan Carlos Franco Laverde, Maria Estela Varua & Arlene Garces-Ozanne

Global Income Distribution and Convergence 1820–2003
Péter Földvári & Jan Luiten van Zanden

So Far So Good, But Still Some Missing Links
A report card on the G20 London summit
Graham Bird

Economists and Climate Change: Homework Comes First
A comment to Henderson
Aldo Matteucci

Alistair Milne on Robert J. Shiller,The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It


Volume 10, Number 1, 2009
Sweden’s Bank Nationalisations
Are there lessons for today?
Fredrik Erixon

The Oil-producing Gulf States, the IMF and the International Financial Crisis
Bessma Momani

The Institutional Framework of the Gulf Central Bank
Nasser H. Saidi & Fabio Scacciavillani

The World Financial Crisis
New economy, globalisation and old-fashioned philosophy
F. Gerard Adams

Economists and Climate Science: A Critique
David Henderson

A Question of Fudge
Professor Nordhaus on climate change and mitigation policy
Mohammed H.I. Dore

How Much Would it Cost to Avoid Climate Change?
Bryan Buckley & Sergey Mityakov

The Banking Crisis and Inequality
Tim Lankester

The Dangers of Déjà Vu Economics
Graham Bird

The Great Moderation and the New Business Cycle
Ann Spehar

Charles Goodhart on Jean-Charles Rochet, Why Are There So Many Banking Crises?
The Politics and Policy of Bank Regulation


Volume 9, Number 4, 2008
End of the ‘American Century’
Allan H. Meltzer

Bringing Balance to the IMF Reform Debate
Domenico Lombardi

The Effectiveness of IMF Surveillance
A study on global financial governance
Biagio Bossone

Why do Governments Delay Devaluation?
The political economy of exchange rate inertia
Graham Bird & Thomas D. Willett

The West and the Rest in the World Economy: 1000–2030
Maddisonian and Malthusian interpretations
Angus Maddison

Missing Out on Industrial Revolution
Eric Jones

How can Korea Raise its Future Potential Growth Rate?
Elena Ianchovichina & Danny Leipziger

Perspectives on Inclusive Development
Concepts, approaches and current issues
Michael Chibba

The World is not Flat
Implications for the construction of globalisation indicators
Philippe De Lombaerde & P. Lelio Iapadre

Are Economic Sanctions Useful in Discouraging the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Robert Carbaugh

An Expanded Concept of Capital in Development Economics
Luc Noiset

Domenico Lombardi and Maria Fabiana Viola on Barry Eichengreen, Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods: the Cairoli Lectures


Volume 9, Number 3, 2008
Endangering the War on Terror by the War on Drugs
Deepak Lal

Risk-Pricing and the Sub-Prime Crisis
Andrew G. Haldane

Credit Crisis 101
(or what happened to “free and clear”?)
Edward Gottesman

The Sovereign Wealth Funds of Singapore
Anthony Elson

Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Funds
The political risk of overseas investments
Friedrich Wu

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
François Bourguignon on fifty years of economic development and the elusive quest for sustained growth
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

International Comparisons of GDP
Is there an alternative to PPPs to obtain real GDP estimates?
Elio Lancieri

Unwinding Global Economic Imbalances
What’s growth got to do with it?
Graham Bird

Climate Change Issues
An Australian contribution to the debate
David Henderson

Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
Graham Bird & Thomas D. Willett

Andrew Haldane on Tim Congdon, Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism


Volume 9, Number 2, 2008
Economic Forecasts
Too smooth by far?
Prakash Loungani & Jair Rodriguez

Measuring China’s Economic Performance
Angus Maddison & Harry X. Wu

The Rise of China Investment Corporation
A new member of the sovereign wealth club
Friedrich Wu & Arifin Seah

A Wave of Protectionism?
An analysis of economic and political considerations
Philipp Maier

Towards a Unified Theory of Economic Growth
Oded Galor on the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Globalization
From Heckscher–Ohlin to the New Economic Geography
F. Gerard Adams

Trends and Challenges in Islamic Finance
Heiko Hesse, Andreas (Andy) Jobst & Juan Solé

Over-Presumption and Myopia
The IMF on climate change issues
David Henderson

Miranda Xafa on Frederic S. Mishkin, The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich



Joe Perkins on Paul J. Zak (editor), Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy


Brian Snowdon on John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain & Samuel H. Williamson (eds), Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians


Volume 9, Number 1, 2008
Volume 8, Number 4, 2007
Sovereign Wealth Funds
What they are and what’s happening
Stephen Jen

The Opium Economy: A Possible Approach to Reform
Jeremy Berkoff

Keynes in the Long Run
Robert Skidelsky

Exploring the Present Through the Past
Claudia Goldin on human capital, gender and the lessons from history
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

HIV/AIDS: A Growing Concern to Business
David E. Bloom, Lakshmi Reddy Bloom, Paul De Lay, Fiona Paua, Richard Samans & Mark Weston

The Uneven Build Up of Global Reserves
Ways forward
Rohinton Medhora

Multilateral Surveillance
Is the IMF shooting for the stars?
Graham Bird & Thomas D. Willett

The Role of the IMF in Low-Income Countries
Recent issues
Domenico Lombardi

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz on Carol Lancaster, Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics


New Light or Fixed Presumptions?
The OECD, the IMF and the treatment of climate change issues
David Henderson

Volume 8, Number 3, 2007
How to Tackle Poverty
Economists are closing in on the answers
Diane Coyle

A Dynamic Theory of China–U.S. Trade
Making sense of the imbalances
Amar Bhidé & Edmund Phelps

The Future of North Korea is South Korea
(Or hope springs eternal)
Marcus Noland

The Power of Ideas
Joel Mokyr on the intellectual origins of the Industrial Revolution and modern economic growth
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Monetary Policy, Governance and Economic Development
The Botswana experience
Michael Chibba

Do Current Assessments Underestimate Future Damages From Climate Change?
Stéphane Hallegatte

Managerial Performance and Contract Instability in the Market for National Football Coaches
Lynne Nikolychuk & Brian Sturgess

Economic Drivers of Pharmaceutical Investment Location
David Lewis, Edward Bramley-Harker & Joshua Farahnik

Colin I. Bradford and Johannes F. Linn reply to Graham Bird’s review in the last issue of World Economics [8(2): 285-287] of their co-edited volume, Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate


James Raymond Vreeland responds to Graham Hacche’s review article [World Economics, 8(2): 97-118] on his latest book, The International Monetary Fund: Politics of Conditional Lending


Tim Lankester on Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It


Joe Perkins on Peter Diamond & Hannu Vartiainen (editors), Behavioral Economics and Its Applications


Jack Goldstone on Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World


Volume 8, Number 2, 2007
Prospects for Commodity Exporters
Hunky Dory or Humpty Dumpty?
Paul Collier & Benedikt Goderis

Can China Learn from Sweden?
Arne Bigsten

How Many Wildebeest do You Need?
Mike Norton-Griffiths

Reform of the IMF and World Bank
Where do things stand?
Anthony Elson

A Non-Definitive Guide to the IMF
A review article
Graham Hacche

On Solving the World’s Economic Problems by Doing Something Unfashionable
Graham Bird

Response to ‘The Stern Review: A Dual Critique—Part I: The Science’
Ian Simmonds & Will Steffen

Response to Simmonds and Steffen
David Holland, Robert M. Carter, Chris de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany & Richard S. Lindzen

A Stern Reply to the Reply to the Review of the Stern Review
Richard S. J. Tol & Gary W. Yohe

Climate Science and the Stern Review
Robert M. Carter, Chris de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland & Richard S. Lindzen

Governments and Climate Change Issues
The case for rethinking
David Henderson

Right for the Right Reasons
A final rejoinder on the Stern Review
Simon Dietz, Dennis Anderson, Nicholas Stern, Chris Taylor & Dimitri Zenghelis

Losses and Gains to Developing Countries from the Migration of Educated Workers
An overview of recent research, and new reflections
Oded Stark & C. Simon Fan

Does China Still Need Hong Kong?
Friedrich Wu

Tim Lankester on Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare


Fabian Eser on Joseph Stiglitz et al., Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development


Graham Bird on Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes F. Linn, editors, Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate


Volume 8, Number 1, 2007
Challenges to the Multilateral Trading System
Peter Sutherland

Aid for Trade
An essential component of the multilateral trading system and WTO Doha development agenda
Faizel Ismail

The EU, the Middle East, and Regional Integration
Bessma Momani

Globalisation and Inflation
Charles Bean

How Can Norway Become A Climate-Friendly Society?
Jørgen Randers & Knut H. Alfsen

Addressing Climate Change
Is there a role to be played by the IMF?
Peter S. Heller

REFLECTIONS ON THE STERN REVIEW (1)
A Robust Case for Strong Action to Reduce the Risks of Climate Change

Simon Dietz, Chris Hope, Nicholas Stern & Dimitri Zenghelis

REFLECTIONS ON THE STERN REVIEW (2)
A Growing International Opportunity to Move Strongly on Climate Change

Lorraine Hamid, Nicholas Stern & Chris Taylor

Ethics of the Discount Rate in the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Wilfred Beckerman & Cameron Hepburn

The Stern Review and the Costs of Climate Change Mitigation
A response to the ‘Dual Critique’ and the misrepresentations of Tol and Yohe
Dennis Anderson

Response to Carter et al.
John F. Mitchell, Julia Slingo, David S. Lee, Jason A. Lowe & Vicky Pope

Response to ‘The Stern Review: A Dual Critique’
Nigel Arnell, Rachel Warren & Robert Nicholls

A Response to ‘The Stern Review: A Dual Critique’
Andrew Glikson

Is Suicide Terrorism a Novel Economic Phenomenon?
A response to Mark Harrison’s ‘An Economist Looks at Suicide Terrorism’
Aldo Matteucci

Reply to Aldo Matteucci, ‘Is Suicide Terrorism a Novel Economic Phenomenon?’
Mark Harrison

Shalendra D. Sharma on the Sachs–Easterly debate.
Can Massive Foreign Aid Eliminate Extreme Poverty?


Alan Budd on Diane Coyle, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters


Volume 7, Number 4, 2006
Milton Friedman, 1912–2006
Polemicist, scholar, and giant of twentieth–century economics
Brian Snowdon & Howard R. Vane

What Future for Central Banks?
Howard Davies

Education in a Globalized World
David E. Bloom

Running the IMF
Reducing political bias and increasing independence
Graham Bird

Agricultural Reform and Trade Negotiations
Can the Doha Round deliver?
Kimberly Ann Elliott

Hosting the FIFA World Cup
Economic boon or winner’s curse?
Brian Sturgess & Chris Brady

The Stern Review: A Dual Critique
   Authors’ Introduction

   Part I: The Science
   Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany,
   David Holland & Richard S. Lindzen


   Part II: Economic Aspects
   Ian Byatt, Ian Castles, Indur M. Goklany, David Henderson,
   Nigel Lawson, Ross McKitrick, Julian Morris, Alan Peacock,
   Colin Robinson & Robert Skidelsky




A Review of the Stern Review
Richard S. J. Tol & Gary W. Yohe

Book Review
Carol Graham on William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good


Volume 7, Number 3, 2006
An Economist Looks at Suicide Terrorism
Mark Harrison

Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America’s Future Workforce
Eric Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy Cameron & Jack P. Shonkoff

Has the European Social Model a Future?
J. R. Shackleton

What Could Brake China’s Rapid Ascent in the World Economy?
Friedrich Wu

Making Fiscal Space Happen!
Managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid
Peter S. Heller, Menachem Katz, Xavier Debrun, Theo Thomas, Taline Koranchelian & Isabell Adenauer

From The Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference to the Suspension of the Negotiations
Developing countries reclaim the development content of the WTO Doha Round
Faizel Ismail

The Emergence of a Regional Financial Architecture in Asia
Recent developments and prospects
Anthony Elson

Comment
The ‘climate change’ debate: S. Fred Singer responds to the exchange, in the previous issue, between Nicholas Stern and Ian Byatt et al.

Book Review
Johannes F. Linn on Ngaire Woods, The Globalizers: The IMF, The World Bank, and Their Borrowers

Volume 7, Number 2, 2006
What is the Economics of Climate Change?
Sir Nicholas Stern

Russia at the Crossroads
Padma Desai on transition, reform, and the legacy of Yeltsin’s ‘kamikaze crew’
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Understanding China’s Economic Transformation
Are there lessons here for the developing world?
Daniel W. Bromley & Yang Yao

The Economic Growth of East Asia and Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Lessons for development policy
Anthony Elson

Are Mr de Rato’s Spectacles Rose Tinted?
Globalization and the IMF’s medium-term strategy
Graham Bird

Gold and Silver as Monetary Metals
An overview
John Cooper

COMMENT: Climate Change
The Stern Review ‘OXONIA Papers’: A critique
Sir Ian Byatt, Ian Castles, David Henderson, Lord Lawson of Blaby, Ross McKitrick, Julian Morris, Sir Alan Peacock, Colin Robinson & Lord Skidelsky

Reply to Byatt et al. by Nicholas Stern


Volume 7, Number 1, 2006
Making Capitalism Work for Everyone
Raghuram Rajan & Luigi Zingales

Two British Initiatives for IMF Lending to its Members, 1960–1962
Jacques J. Polak

Can Iraq Overcome the Oil Curse?
Robert E. Looney

Trade Policy 2006
A tour d’horizon
Razeen Sally

The Enduring Elixir of Economic Growth
Xavier Sala-i-Martin on the wealth and poverty of nations
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Global Income Inequality
A review
Branko Milanovic

Are We Heading for a Dollar Crisis?
Graham Bird

Do the Young British Artists Rule?
Evidence from the auction market
David Galenson

Comment
Phillip Crowson on the ‘death of distance’ and natural resource-based economic development in history.


Book Review
David Bevan on Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries.


Volume 6, Number 4, 2005
Will Globalization Survive?
Martin Wolf

A Global Compact to End Poverty
Jeffrey Sachs on stabilisation, transition and weapons of mass salvation
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

“Pity the Finance Minister”
Issues in managing a substantial scaling up of aid flows
Peter S. Heller

Measuring Global Poverty Right
Mission impossible?
M. G. Quibria

Monetary Policy, Macro-stability and Growth
South Africa’s recent experience and lessons
Janine Aron & John Muellbauer

Brazil’s Economy Under Lula
The dawn of a new era?
Edmund Amann

Corporate China Goes Global
Friedrich Wu

Volume 6, Number 3, 2005
Volume 6, Number 2, 2005
Volume 6, Number 1, 2005
Volume 5, Number 4, 2004
Are Governments Overextended?
Assessing the spectrum of a government’s debts and its exposure to risk
Peter S. Heller

Responsible Growth to 2050
Kirk Hamilton & Ian Johnson

Governance Matters
The role of governance in Asian economic development
David E. Bloom, David Steven & Mark Weston

Dollarisation in Theory and Practice
John C. B. Cooper

The Influence of Political Distortions on Economic Performance
The contributions of Alberto Alesina
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New
Clive Bell & Maureen Lewis

A Portrait of the Artists as Young or Old Innovators
The creative life cycles of modern poets and novelists
David Galenson

Volume 5, Number 3, 2004
Volume 5, Number 2, 2004
The Quest for Development
What role does history play?
Areendam Chanda & Louis Putterman

Globalisation and the Asia–Pacific Revival
Arne Bigsten

The Health and Wealth of Africa
David E. Bloom & David Canning

Explaining the ‘Great Divergence’
Daron Acemoglu on how growth theorists rediscovered history and the importance of institutions
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Fifty Years of Economic Growth in Western Europe
No longer catching up but falling behind?
Nicholas Crafts

Monetarism
A retrospective
Thomas Mayer & Patrick Minford

Volume 5, Number 1, 2004
The End of the Road for the WTO?
A snapshot of international trade policy after Cancun
Razeen Sally

International Aid
Experience, prospects and the moral case
Tim Lankester

Escaping Regulation, Escaping Convention
Development strategies in small economies
Naren Prasad

Beyond the Ivory Tower
Stanley Fischer on the economics of contemporary global issues
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Does the IMF Perform a Catalytic Role?
And what if it doesn’t?
Graham Bird & Dane Rowlands

A Single European Market in Asset Management
Vision and reality
Friedrich Heinemann

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
A biographical guide to potential future winners
Howard R. Vane & Chris Mulhearn

Volume 4, Number 4, 2003
Volume 4, Number 3, 2003
Volume 4, Number 2, 2003
Volume 4, Number 1, 2003
Pride and Prejudice
What’s good and bad about economics
Diane Coyle

Speaking in Tongues
Our economic vernacular
Peter J. Dougherty

Capitalism and the End of History
Adair Turner

From Socialism to Capitalism and Democracy
János Kornai on the trials of socialism and transition
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Why The Five Economic Tests?
The decision about British membership of a single European currency in historical context
Ed Balls

Some Lessons from a Single Currency
Alan J. Brown

How to Reform Europe’s Fiscal Policy Framework
Lars Calmfors & Giancarlo Corsetti

Demographics and Pension Reforms in the Major Central and Eastern European Countries
Dieter Bräuninger

Global Challenges of Providing Water and Wastewater Services
Paul Seidenstat

Some Proposed Methodological Developments for the UK Retail Prices Index
Mick Silver

Measuring Consumer Inflation in the United Kingdom
Recent developments and the future outlook
David Fenwick

Volume 3, Number 4, 2002
The Growing US Fiscal Gap
Daniel Shaviro

The Disappearing Masterpiece
David Galenson

The UK’s Achievement of Economic Stability
How and why did it happen?
Tim Congdon

Ready to Join the EU?
On the status of reform in the candidate countries
Federico Foders, Daniel Piazolo & Rainer Schweickert

Continuities and Discontinuities in Global Development
Lessons from new East/West comparisons
Kenneth Pomeranz

A Decade of Trade Reforms in India
How it compares with East Asia
Ramkishen S. Rajan & Rahul Sen

Labour Standards and International Trade
Krisztina Kis-Katos & Günther G. Schulze

More Aid—Making It Work for the Poor
Peter S. Heller & Sanjeev Gupta

Should We Be Globaphobic About Globalisation?
Dani Rodrik on the economic and political implications of increasing international economic integration
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Volume 3, Number 3, 2002
Volume 3, Number 2, 2002
Volume 3, Number 1, 2002
Volume 2, Number 4, 2001
Economists and Sustainable Development
The OECD Report on Policies for Sustainable Development
Wilfred Beckerman

What Do We Know About the Shadow Economy?
Evidence from 21 OECD countries
Friedrich Schneider

What Happened to the Washington Consensus?
Graham Bird

Championing Free Trade in the Second Age of Globalisation
Jagdish Bhagwati on trade, democracy and growth
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Cohabiting with Goliath
How small equity exchanges will survive in the future
Avinash Persaud

Why is There No AIDS Vaccine?
A new economic explanation
Pedro Rey Biel

Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs
An overview of recent history
Suren Basov , Mireille Jacobson & Jeffrey A. Miron

Measuring Global Drug Markets
How good are the numbers and why should we care about them?
Peter Reuter & Victoria Greenfield

Up for the Cup
Stefan Szymanski

Volume 2, Number 3, 2001
Economic Globalisation
How far and how much further?
Ramkishen Rajan & Graham Bird

Wealth as a Criterion for Sustainable Development
Partha Dasgupta & Karl-Göran Mäler

Redefining the Role of the State
Joseph Stiglitz on building a ‘post-Washington consensus’
An interview with introduction by Brian Snowdon

Global Income Inequality
Beliefs, facts and unresolved issues
Arne Melchior

The Debt-Relief Initiative for Poor Countries
Good news for the poor?
Gustav Ranis & Frances Stewart

NGOs and International Economic Policy-Making
Rights and responsibilities in the global arena
Michael Edwards

Policy-Making in Resource-Rich Countries
Lessons from Zambia
Arne Bigsten

The International Arms Industry Since the End of the Cold War
Ron Smith

A Night at the Opera
Subsidies, prices and repertoire at London’s opera houses
Jeff Frank & Philip Wrigley

Bad Market Days
Lessons from the stock market crashes of 1929 & 1987
Harold Bierman

Volume 2, Number 2, 2001
Volume 2, Number 1, 2001
Volume 1, Number 4, 2000
Goods and Bads
Ralph Turvey

Sending the Herd off the Cliff Edge
The disturbing interaction between herding and market-sensitive risk management practices
Avinash Persaud

Demographic Risk in Industrial Societies
Independent population forecasts for the G-7 countries
Sylvester J. Schieber & Paul S. Hewitt

Hardship and Happiness
Mobility and public perceptions during market reforms
Carol Graham & Stefano Pettinato

From Rags to Riches
Ireland’s economic boom
Brendan Walsh

Why Did the Protected Areas Fail the Giant Panda?
The economics of conserving endangered species in developing countries
Timothy M. Swanson & Andreas Kontoleon

Biodiversity in the Marketplace
Geoffrey Heal

How Much Damage Will Climate Change Do?
Recent estimates
Richard S.J. Tol, Samuel Fankhauser, Richard G. Richels & Joel B. Smith

The Market for Olympic Gold Medals
Stefan Szymanski

Volume 1, Number 3, 2000
Volume 1, Number 2, 2000
Housing in the South East of England
Some issues raised by the Government’s plans
David Miles

An Economic Analysis of Campaign Finance
Andrea Prat

Welfare-to-work and the New Deal
Richard Layard

The Thirty-five Hour Working Week
Flexibilité, compétitivité, productivité-a French Revolution
Alan Kirman

Poles Apart
Labour market performance and the distribution of work across households
Paul Gregg, Kirstine Hansen & Jonathan Wadsworth

Understanding Labour Market Institutions
Gilles Saint-Paul

The US “Underclass” in a Booming Economy
Richard B. Freeman

The Political Economy of Sport
Stefan Szymanski

Proposals for a better International Financial System
Stephany Griffith-Jones

Is there a Case for an Asian Monetary Fund?
Graham Bird & Ramkishen Rajan

A Non-technical Introduction to Bargaining Theory
Abhinay Muthoo

From Big Macs to iMacs
What do international price comparisons tell us?
Jonathan Haskel & Holger Wolf

Volume 1, Number 1, 2000
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