
Economic Sovereignty: A Delusion
It has been Conservative policy in Britain since Mrs Thatcher to reduce the size of the state in pursuit of some golden age where private
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Desmond Cohen is former Dean, School of Social Sciences at Sussex University, Ex-Director of the HIV/AIDS and Development Pgm at the UNDP and ex-advisor to the Drug Policy Reform Pgm of the Soros Foundation.

It has been Conservative policy in Britain since Mrs Thatcher to reduce the size of the state in pursuit of some golden age where private

We talk a lot about inequality but the data we rely on is subject to substantial errors since much income and wealth goes unmeasured and

When I was student at the LSE many years ago I shared lodgings with a German exchange student from the University of Munich, son of

The collapse of Sterling’s foreign exchange rate since the Brexit referendum is on a scale we have not seen in many years and yet the

The UK (and maybe the world) faces severe and worsening economic conditions due to Brexit. Many commentators do not seem to understand that there are

What is surprising about the result of the referendum is that so many of us were surprised – astonished may be closer to the truth.