Opinion

I used to write a weekly column for City AM and have published a number of opinion editorials, most regularly for The Guardian and Reuters.

I have appeared on the BBC and been quoted by The Financial Times, The Times, Monde Des Grandes Ecoles et Universities, and a range of other publications.

For media coverage of my policy work see here.


Opinion editorials

Nuclear power: The safer and cheaper alternative to fossil fuels” Open Access Government, January 22nd 2021

Monetary policy is outdated. Here’s how to reboot it” Daily Telegraph, February 15th 2018

The time is right for sound money” Conservative Home, January 11th 2016

Ekonomiju ne treba promatrati isključivo kroz prizmu BDP-a” Poslovni dnevik, January 31st 2013

Makro pokazatelji kao viktorijanski kupaći kostimi” Lider, Feb 27th 2012

Forward thinking” Money Marketing, May 26th 2011

Three principles that should underpin the Budget“, The Spectator Coffee House Blog, March 22nd 2011

No sympathy for Ponzi SMEs” Business Review Europe, August 10th 2010

From one uncertainty to another” Reuters, June 18th 2010

How to thaw the economy” Reuters, March 16th 2010

Economic Insight” (.pdf), Business XL, 2010

Leader” (.pdf), Employee Engagement Today, Spring 2010

Has quantitative easing paid off?” Guardian Unlimited, February 16th 2010

The end of free email” Guardian Unlimited, January 23rd 2010

Politicians should allow a business-led recovery” Reuters, December 1st 2009

Don’t regulate banking – liberalise it” Guardian Unlimited, September 14th 2009

No need to panic about GDP” Guardian Unlimited, July 24th 2009

Why G20 leaders should leave well alone” FinanceWeek, April 2nd 2009

The unpalatable financial truth” Guardian Unlimited, March 22nd 2009

The semantics of printing money” Guardian Unlimited, March 7th 2009

The banks couldn’t contain dissent” Guardian Unlimited, February 14th 2009

The price of economic illiteracy” Guardian Unlimited, November 2nd 2008


The Economist

Freedom Week mentioned by The Economist, June 1st 2013

SMPC minutes linked to by The Economist, March 19th 2013


Blogs that matter

Money Illusion | Marginal Revolution | Economics UK



Interviews

Interview with Lider, September 2019

Interview with Libek, January 28th 2016


Broadcast interviews & commentary

Interviewed by Hunter Hastings for ‘The Economics for Business’ podcast, March 2022

Rejected invitation feature on In the Balance, BBC World Service, July 22nd 2014

Rejected invitation to be interviewed on Jeff Randall Live, Sky News, October 8th 2012

Interviewed by Cobden Centre Radio, November 2010

Participant in a debate on Quantitative Easing, BBC World Service, September 2009

Interviewed for report on US recession, Newsnight, BBC Television, March 16th 2009

Regular panellist discussing the UK economy, The Breakfast Club, News Talk 93FM, Jamaica, October 2008 – April 2010


Print interviews & commentary

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Quoted in “Bragging rights: Economists flummoxed by popstar’s Bank of England lecture” by Oliver Gill, City AM, April 19th 2018

Quoted in “Government Interference Has Damaged The Bank Of England For Future Mark Carneys“, Finance Monthly, November 2016

Cited in “Don’t be fooled: interest rates have been changing since the crisis“, by Pete Spence, The Telegraph, March 1st 2015

Cited in “Is this a booming economy, or a credit-driven bubble?“, by Douglas Carswell, The Telegraph, December 11th 2013

Quoted in “Ferguson and Moyes: A Lesson for the Berlin Phil” The Gramophone Blog, May 10th 2013

Interview in “Radnike treba intenzivno uključiti u proces odlučivanja“, Poslovni dnevik, February 4th 2013

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Quoted in “Economic policy revived on the internet“, Financial Times, January 27th 2013

Quoted in “Is UK economy adopting to touch ‘new normal”? The Times, March 29th 2012

Quoted in “To QE or not to QE? The market has spoken” Management Today, January 12th 2012

Interview in “Anthony J. Evans (Escp) e il depennamento della rete del debito pubblico estero in Europa” GreenReport.it, August 10th 2011

Quoted in “China’s economy looks to be on shaky ground” City AM, July 12th 2011

Quoted in “Tax Chaos to Hit Millions” The Daily Express, March 1st 2011 [front page of print edition]

Interview in “Europe is your OysterGateway, Issue 26 (February 2011)

Quoted in “McChrystal critical of Obama” The Edge, July 2010

Quoted in “Eastern bloc renews bid to become high tech hubInformation Age, July 13th 2010

Quoted in “Let the unusual guide you off the beaten track” The Times, February 1st 2010

Quoted in “Pay and pensions to be targeted in public-sector spending cuts” HR Resources, December 9th 2009

Quoted in “Pledge to upskill the young and equip the over-50s to find work” HR Resources, December 9th 2009

Quoted in “UK economy performs worse than expected this quarter” Accounting Web, July 24th 2009

Comments for “Judgment Call” column, Financial Times, April 29th 2009

Quoted in “MBA examiners call in the FBI in crackdown on cheats”, by Des Dearlove, The Times, November 16, 2008

Interview on the Romanian Flat Tax in Saptamana Financiara, Number 170, Monday 4th August 2008

Comments on the London Congestion Charge, featured in Info: Magazine of the French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain Vol. 29 No.3, May-June 2007


Internet articles

Don’t conflate ‘neoliberalism’ with ‘neoclassical economics‘” Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (August 2015)

Forward guidance takes monetary policy even further down the wrong track“, Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (August 2013)

Monetarists’ blind spot on quantitative easing” Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (March 2011)

The Threat of QE2” Adam Smith Institute, November 2010

What Austrian business cycle theory does and does not claim as true” Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (May 2010)

Ostrom on institutions: complex solutions can spontaneously emerge” Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (Oct 2009)

Austrian economics vs Keynesianism and Kaletsky” Institute of Economic Affairs Blog (May 2009)

What Can We Learn From E-Stonia?“, Ideal Government (Oct 2005)

Petty Crime“, Ideal Government (Sep 2005)

Common Law Marriage“, Ideal Government (Apr 2005)


Other coverage

Les etudiants du bachelor de ESCP Europe sont les managers multiculturels du futur” Monde des Grandes Ecoles et Universities, December 8th 2016