Joe Egerton imagines the letter that Aristotle - after a little help from St Thomas Aquinas and St Ignatius - might write to the Prime Minister about his handling of the financial crisis.
Amid this turmoil, there is inevitably a desire for a larger account of how we got here and where we go next. Apology-seeking is an inarticulate expression of that need, and it is one Mr Brown should take seriously. More»
The archbishop delivers an attack on impact of globalisation - says its time for everyone to look at own lifestyles: The Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the unthinking pursuit of growth. More»
This talk by Warwick McKibbin at the Lowy Institute (AUS) explores how the global financial crisis can be understood as a series of unexpected shocks. He outlines what these shocks were, what were the resulting flow-on effects from each, and how conventional economic models explain the global adjustment and the implications of alternative policy responses.
In order to know where capitalism might be heading, it is imperative for policymakers, bankers, investors and voters to understand more clearly what went so badly wrong with 21st-century finance. This article is the Financial Times attempt to summarise for broad readership what went wrong.
Britain has become a “brittle” society where even the smallest effect on resources risks bringing the country to its knees, a think tank will warn next week.
A 3 part discussion series with accompanying articles including video commentary asking Why did no one see it coming? Can we fix it? And did the boom years corrode our moral character? Guardian writers and contributors ask where we go from here and what we can learn from the crunch and the downturn.
But the most astounding fact [of the current financial collapse] is how familiar its physiognomy and physiology look compared to past financial crashes… No one can read the chronicles of those earlier crashes without sensing with a chill that history is repeating itself… More»