Business Spectator
The strange death of liberal Germany
In its better days, the FDP was the only party prepared to challenge this cosy consensus of German feel-good politics and talk about those issues that were not universally popular.
2014
National Business Review
Grand Coalition the price of MMP
Perhaps the occasional Grand Coalition is the price we have to pay for our MMP electoral system.
Insights
How dismal is economics?
It came as a bit of a surprise when I discovered a new paper written by two, well, economists claiming that economics makes you happy.
Business Spectator
The sublime irony of Draghi’s dilemma
With all of Europe’s woes, the ECB now looks like the last institution able to move the continent’s economy.
Business Spectator
There’s only one cure for the eurozone’s terminal disease
Euro periphery countries should have the courage to rid themselves off the shackles of an ill-designed currency union that they should have never joined in the first place.
Insights
Don’t mention the War?
“Don’t mention the War” was not just a Fawlty Towers quote – it was my experience growing up in Germany.
Business Spectator
The calm before the eurozone storm
The next stages of the euro crisis are already programmed into the system.
Business Spectator
Schooling the anti-capitalists on inequality
Ludwig Erhard’s insistence on the social market economy made West Germany rich after the War.
Speeches
Plenary address on welfare to the ANZSOG conference
A plenary on the highly contested issues around the appropriate extent and nature of government welfare support in the 21st century.
National Business Review
Change without pain over the decades
Every achievement is a result of effort and determination.