Fads and fashions: If they are so bad, why are they so rapidly rich? We all know that celebrities, sports stars, estate agents, banks...
Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
What I Like about this country is that it has a nice level of corruption! Deep economic truths from the mouths of Washington DC taxi...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
The Beauty of Holiness and its Perils (or what is to happen to 10,000 parish churches?) This is the Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture of 2007...
The psychology of financial participants and its implications for finance Avinash Persaud, former Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at...
Redesigning financial regulation of pensions and other retail products Worried about your pension? Worried about the nation's poor savings...
Does society risk my life through safety? The perils of too much risk-aversion We would all like a riskless life, right? The Precautionary...