• What we should tell our grandchildren about AI

    They will see the promise—it is incumbent on us to alert them to the threat, or humanity will perish 14th November 2023 My new book, The Machine Age, is an ambitious—possibly overambitious—attempt to understand the human… Read more

  • Marx and Keynes can free Labour from its budget bind

    Rachel Reeves needs a new economic narrative to break the fear of deficits and debt 24th November 2023 To observe the basic thinking behind Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on 22 November, and how Rachel Reeves… Read more

  • Joseph Schumpeter

    The theorist of “creative destruction,” one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, was no stranger to violent disruption in his personal life, as a new biography reveals Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) was one… Read more

  • Letter: Remember Kissinger’s advice to the Ukrainians

    Nato governments have rightly said they are willing to address Russia’s security concerns, but then say in the same breath that Russia has no legitimate security concerns because Nato is a purely defensive alliance. Whether… Read more