The economist Roger Bootle insists his new book, "The Trouble With Europe", is "not motivated by any sort of animus against Europe" and that it's not an artefact of standard-issue euroscepticism. But...

There's more than a fleeting echo, in the cadences of the opening paragraph of Jeremy Rifkin's new book, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society", of Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto". But in this...

To paraphrase Tolstoy, healthy economies are all alike; every unhealthy economy is unhealthy in its own way. That is one of the lessons I took from reading Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the...

Cable is cautiously optimistic about the British economy.  © Andrew Sales Business secretary Vince Cable has warned that the recent boom in self-employment needs to be accompanied by...

The former Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on military spending, the threat from Russia, and why Afghanistan has strengthened the alliance

Why ask the public to vote reality TV-style on what the biggest challenge we face in science is when we already know the answer?

Right, a Mao-era propaganda poster showing women working; left, a contemporary Chinese cartoon mocks a female university graduate who can't find a husband because her standards are too...

UK house prices rose at 9.1 per cent in the last 12 months and are creeping ever closer to the levels achieved before the 2008 crash. So is there, or is there not a property bubble in Britain? That...

  "Have we come to the end of the squeeze in incomes and are we going to see some kind of real wage growth?" © West Midlands Regional Observatory Prospect’s Jay Elwes spoke...

Buoyant growth statistics could be the cue for an interest rate rise, but what would that mean for the housing market?