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Rural romanticism 

THE CONSTANT ECONOMY: HOW TO CREATE A STABLE SOCIETY by Zac Goldsmith Atlantic, £16.99, pp. 256, ISBN 9781848870673 The bibliography...

There is nothing magic about this Keynesian fad 

Mr Brown's bank recapitalisation exercise has been portrayed in the British media as a financial and political coup. The Financial Times has been...

A load of hot air 

COMMON WEALTH by Jeffrey Sachs Allen Lane, £22, pp. 386, ISBN 9780713999198 £17.59 (plus £2.45p&p)...

DAVOS: Economic Theory - Subprime Crisis? No Comment - Tim Congdon Laments The Fact That Academic Monetary Theory Has Become So Technical, Abstruse and Remote From Day-to-day Practicality, That Busy Decision-takers In Banking May Start Ignoring It. 

Byline: TIM CONGDON Why did peace break out? Why, more precisely, did the debates among macroeconomists - particularly the debate between...

Guru to five presidents 

THE AGE OF TURBULENCE by Alan Greenspan Allen Lane, £25, pp. 531, ISBN 9780713999822 £20 (plus £2.45...

Twogiants and wizards 

J. K. GALBRAITH by Richard Parker Old Street Publishing, 14 Bowling Green Lane, London EC1R 0BD, Tel: 020 7253 3360, £25, pp. 820,...

Not such a low and dishonest decade 

Not such a low and dishonest decade Tim Congdon THE ROARING NINETIES by Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane, L18. 99, pp. 389, ISBN 1854109308 If it is to...

dawning of a new Europe, The 

France and Germany have lost the war, says Tim Congdon, and it is now time for Britain to help create a new European Free Trade Area that includes...

Which is he: Cavalier or Roundhead? 

Byline: TIM CONGDON

GORDON BROWN suffers from a split personality. He cannot decide whether he is a Roundhead or a Cavalier.

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A ramshackle polemic 

Joseph E. Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents Norton, 282 pages, $24.95 Joseph E. Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents Norton, 282...