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...
Jonathan Derbyshire / May 14, 2014
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...
Jay Elwes / May 14, 2014
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...
Bronwen Maddox / May 14, 2014
The former Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, on military spending, the threat from Russia, and why Afghanistan has strengthened the alliance
Philip Ball / May 10, 2014
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?
Jessica Abrahams / May 9, 2014
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...
Jay Elwes / May 9, 2014
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...
Jay Elwes / May 7, 2014
"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...
Jay Elwes / April 29, 2014
Buoyant growth statistics could be the cue for an interest rate rise, but what would that mean for the housing market?