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What is Competitiveness? #1 Robert Reich
Robert Reich: when you hear the term “American competitiveness,” watch your wallet. This is the first in an ongoing series of articles we are planning, to explore what competitiveness is, from the...
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Slot machine man and the origins of “Competitiveness” discourse
The ways people talk about the ‘competitiveness’ of countries so obviously relates to the economy that they must have their roots in economic theory – wouldn’t you think? In the first of a series of...
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Competitiveness: was Charles Tiebout joking?
The Tiebout model of cross-border human migration Do nations or states ‘compete’ with each other in a meaningful way? We have already explored the thinking of Paul Krugman, Adam Smith, Robert Reich,...
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Is France’s economy really less ‘competitive’ than Britain’s?
Our tweet of the day, from a former external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee: To those out there who always tell me that France under Hollande is such a disaster just note...
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Admati and Hellwig: global finance is not an Olympic competition
Bankers’ New Clothes: co-author Anat Admati, of Stanford Graduate School of Business (Updated with Krugman comments.) Two years ago Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig published a popular book about...
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Paul Krugman on Competitiveness: a Dangerous Obsession
Paul Krugman: “Competitiveness’ would turn out to be a funny way of saying ‘productivity’ “ In 2011 the U.S. economist Paul Krugman wrote an article in the New York Times in which he stated: “The idea...
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Who runs our countries: us, or global finance? It can be us
Stuart Fraser of the City of London Corporation Stuart Fraser is the former head of the powerful Policy & Resources Committee of the peculiar City of London Corporation, and an influential figure...
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Bob Jessop: an historical approach to national competitiveness
Professor Bob Jessop, Lancaster University. Jack Copley probes his ideas on national competition. Fools’ Gold has generally urged extreme caution when considering using c-words such as...
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The Finance Curse and Competitiveness: presentation at Max Planck Institute
This is the text of a lecture that John Christensen, Director of the Tax Justice Network (TJN), gave at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne this week. slide one National Competitiveness: A Dangerous...
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