Banking on the State
Mark K Cassell
Germany’s public savings banks – Sparkassen – are a remarkable and puzzling phenomena. No other advanced industrial country relies as heavily on such small, public financial institutions to fuel its [...]Read More
The European Central Bank
Michael Heine, Hansjorg Herr
The European Central Bank administers monetary policy for the eurozone and is tasked with maintaining price stability by keeping inflation below 2 per cent. This brief mandate belies the complexity [...]Read More
Finntopia
Danny Dorling, Annika Koljonen
The 2020 World Happiness Report ranked Finland, for the third year running, as the world’s happiest country. The "Nordic Model" has long been touted as the aspiration for social and public policy [...]Read More
Negotiating Our Economic Future
Geoffrey Allen Pigman
Tariffs and trade barriers are rising and major diplomatic institutions that have promoted liberal trade for decades have come under attack as impending trade wars threaten global trade and global value [...]Read More
Outside the EU
Martin Westlake
In the debates about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union, all sorts of possible alternatives have been bandied about, from “Singapore on the Thames” to “Canada Plus”, from “Switzerland” [...]Read More
Turkey in the Global Economy
Bülent Gökay
Since the late-1990s Turkey has emerged as a significant economic power. Never colonized and straddling the continents of Europe and Asia, it plays a strategically important role in a region of increasing [...]Read More
China's Hong Kong *New Edition*
Tim
Summers brings his analysis fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of the mass demonstrations of 2019–20 and the intensifying confrontational politics that have culminated in China’s new national security law for Hong Kong.
*Book of the Month* Outside the EU
As trade talks with the EU reach a critical point, just what are the UK's options? These essays offer expert insight into the scale and challenge of the practical issues facing Britain as it seeks to establish a new future with its largest trading partner.
No More Mr Nice Europe
Read Hans Kribbe's article on Europe and the Strongmen in Politico Europe.
Financial Times best books of 2020
Edward Luce, the FT's US national editor, chooses Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth's Angrynomics as his book of the year.
Our 2020 books now available from JSTOR
We are pleased to announce that our 2020 titles are now available through the JSTOR platform, the digital library for scholars, researchers and students.
2021 reading? Austerity
Boris Johnson has said that the UK government "has absolutely no intention of returning to the A word" but with the Covid-19 crisis set to take government debt levels to new heights, is a return to austerity measures inevitable?
