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...There are several player kings in Robert Icke’s fresh, fleet, state-of-the-nation staging of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays — all of them between a rock and a hard place....
...If there were to be a new “Committee to Save the World” — as Time Magazine denoted Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin in the aftermath of an even more distant financial crisis, that of 1998 —...
...Sitting alongside these worlds is a narrative by Robert Coyle, a writer who fills his empty time during Covid lockdowns with research about Beethoven, Sullivan and others, having been invited to the same...
...Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Beby Diane Coyle, Princeton University Press £20/$24 Coyle, now at Cambridge university, is an exceptionally thoughtful commentator on economics....
...Go deeper: Robert Armstrong has been looking at rising prices in the US in his Unhedged column this week....
...Other readables Diane Coyle’s FT column sets out how economics has fallen behind the times and how it must up its game....
...But Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge university, said the bias “is pretty blatant really”....
...In the UK, a report by Robert Skidelsky, commissioned by Labour’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, recommended a government job guarantee and a 35-hour week in the public sector as a lever for improving...
...Robert Chote, chair of the OBR, said last week that only after the epidemic had passed would events reveal whether the recession left lasting scars that required higher taxes or renewed austerity to repair...
...“Mr Johnson has just recreated a cliff-edge, no-deal Brexit since the election,” warned Diane Coyle, professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge....
...Today’s new technologies are nothing like as important economically as the innovations of the early 20th century, as Robert Gordon has argued: in an influential book he compared video gaming to indoor sanitation...
...Diane Coyle: Worse....
...“For smaller businesses there is very little free time to get information on how to do things better,” said Diane Coyle, a professor at Cambridge university....
...May’s Brexit battle Robert Shrimsley writes on the explosive UK cabinet, out of which both David Davis and Boris Johnson have leapt....
...Rothschild has named Sumner Farren and Sara Coyle as managing directors in its Chicago office. The two, who will join the industrials practice in June, were both previously with UBS....
...The wrong data: Economist Diane Coyle says scepticism about growth measures is, well, growing. And explores how GDP methods could be improved....
...In his latest Notebook column Robert Shrimsley goes behind the scenes in the office of Gavin Williamson, Britain’s ambitious and gung-ho defence secretary, to imagine a pre-emptive strike in the making....
...Delegates sat stony-faced, Roberts tells us....
...“Many in the technology sector argue that conventional GDP statistics understate the importance of the digital revolution,” said Diane Coyle, professor of economics at Manchester University, last year....
...breakthrough heralds China’s scientific rise by Anjana Ahuja China believes in free and fair trade too, President Trump — by Gu Bin In the service sector, time is a better measure of productivity by Diane Coyle...
...Diane Coyle on how to have a productive Brexit. The election of Trump has coincided with a 'blue collar revival' in the US, the Economist reports....
...“Before the crisis the [macroeconomic forecasting] models were hopeless” said Diane Coyle, professor at Manchester University....
...Budget: Diane Coyle Robert Shrimsley: Who knew the engines of the economy were dirty tax dodgers? Every Budget has its victims....
...Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) was one, of course, followed this year by Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth ....
...Robert Lawrence, also at the Peterson Institute, has pointed out that while small in absolute terms, the TPP’s forecast boost to US GDP is equivalent to the return on $3tn of investment....
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