So here I am in the cavernous media centre at the London Summit. Some of the main excitement of the day so far: (a) the police found an unexploded World War...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
More Chinese big ideas
Earlier this week, I did a post on Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan's essay calling for the replacement of the dollar as the world's reserve...
Stiglitz / Stern / Roubini / Buiter / El-Erian / O’Neill: climate is central to G20
A veritable flotilla of economists has written a letter to the FT this morning, setting out four key targets for the G20. Among them are Nick Stern (of Stern...
G20 pointless initiative award: the race is on!
With a summit close at hand, one thing we can be sure of is that pointless 'initiatives' can't be far behind. The criteria for such 'announceables' are...
Spot la différence
Evening Standard, this afternoon: France today laughed off a claim that Nicolas Sarkozy had threatened to "walk out" of the G20 summit. They said a report...
G20: great expectations?
Two days to go, and it's probably time to start thinking through what to expect from the London Summit. (If you haven't already seen it, check out our special...
London Summit deja vu
Dani Rodrik has found the following quote from HG Wells, writing in 1933. From the text, you might wonder whether Wells' writing on time machines was...
The FT in 2020
From FT2020, via Andrew at From Davos to Seattle.
Madagascar land grab: how the South Koreans see it
Earlier this week, I noted that the Daewoo land lease deal in Madagascar - under which the South Korean conglomerate secured the lease to one half of...
Gordon Brown vs Madonna and Justin Timberlake
As we all know, Madonna and Justin Timberlake only had four minutes to save the world. The big question today: can Gordon Brown achieve the same in four...
Come on, NGOs, raise your game!
In comments on Jules's post on the Put People First march, the Bretton Woods Project's Peter Chowla takes me to task for what he argued was a sloppy and...
The accidental guerrilla
David Kilcullen on the central concept of his eponymous book: Interviewer: When did the concept of the "accidental guerrilla syndrome" really start to click?...
Bretton Woods 2: now we’re talking
Just before the Washington G20 summit in November last year, David and I co-wrote a paper entitled A Bretton Woods 2 Worth of the Name. As the title implied,...
From landgrab to coup d’etat
Back in November last year, I blogged on the land lease deal agreed between Daewoo, the South Korean company, and the government of Madagascar, under which...
No, YOU don’t get it
Yesterday's FT front cover was a beautiful moment-in-time snapshot of the meme war now underway in the credit crunch arena. The banner headline was "Banker...
New footage emerges of Chinese brutality in Tibet
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVf1tbkHCNw[/youtube]
The front line of the US recession: Iraq and Afghanistan vets
USA Today ran a cover story a couple of days ago noting that among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan aged over 18, the US unmployment rate is now 11.2%. The...
Obama’s video message to the Iranian people
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_utC-hrjI[/youtube]
Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5OJJiB9NFs[/youtube]
Which newspapers people read in the US
Can't remember where I saw this table this week, but it was interesting enough to track down the original Audit Bureau of Circulation stats. Some of the data...
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