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The East grows only because the West consumes. Bitch please.
An abiding belief held by many about the global economy is that the East is one gigantic Foxconn-shaped, steroid-boosted manufacturing facility, pumping out iPhones, shoes, clothing, refrigerators, ai… more →
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The East grows only because the West consumes. Bitch please.
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wrote 7 months ago: An abiding belief held by many about the global economy is that the East is one gigantic Foxconn-sha … more →
Global Tensions from a Rising East
wrote 11 months ago: Will the East slow before it counts? Is the East only big enough to be culpable but not mature enoug … more →
How we miss the Great Shift East
wrote 1 year ago: Many well-known facts are, in actuality, false. One such is how the Great Wall of China is humanity’ … more →
Take back from those even poorer
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wrote 1 year ago: What -ism is it when you castigate your top 1% From: Vanity Fair, May 2011 and try to aid your middl … more →
A small proposal to rebalance the global economy: Just let China grow
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wrote 1 year ago: Many take as fact that the current pattern of global imbalances — large and persistent trade deficit … more →
Prof M. E. Cox on “A new world economic order? Views from the LSE”
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wrote 1 year ago: At the turn of the millennium in a building overlooking London’s Fleet Street, Jim O’Neill and … more →
The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense
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wrote 1 year ago: In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lect … more →
The Great Shift East: The World According to Americans
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wrote 1 year ago: Bizarrely, some of the most vituperative reactions I have gotten on this map of the world’s ec … more →
Guest Post - The Inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture - by Emily May
wrote 1 year ago: (The original host service for this post is no longer available, but its author Emily May kindly agr … more →
Martial arts on the mean streets of East Asia
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wrote 4 years ago: In his book Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger, the prize-winning poet and author, and martial artis … more →
The Great Shift East
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wrote 2 years ago: As the East continues to rise, everyone must now be asking out loud not just what is good for the We … more →
A terrifyingly hostile place to be born a girl
wrote 2 years ago: When I wrote “How can hundreds of millions…“, many readers, of course, quickly lin … more →
How can hundreds of millions of something - anything - be scarce?
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wrote 2 years ago: I sat next to Jim Rogers on a panel once (so you don’t think I’m just making this up), a … more →
Not what is good for the West but for the world
wrote 2 years ago: The editor decided to lead with “As the economic center of gravity shifts East, the question s … more →
The global economy's shift. Follow-ups all over
wrote 2 years ago: In January 2011 Martin Wolf wrote an introduction to my article The global economy’s shifting centre … more →
The global economy's shifting centre of gravity
wrote 2 years ago: Define the global economy’s centre of gravity to be the average location of economic activity … more →
One quick look at the world's shifting economic centre of gravity
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wrote 3 years ago: With constant twitter and Facebook updates, I find myself putting off blogging anything altogether. … more →
