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Tim is an economic policy and political-risk analyst and former journalist based in London and Brussels.

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors.

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European Studies February 19, 2021

The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union

Signe Rehling Larsen

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“The autarkic European nation-state, if it ever existed, was the exception rather than the rule. Nevertheless it is the myth of the self-sufficient nation-state that lies at the heart of …
Economics February 18, 2021

The Spotify Play

How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance

Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud

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Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but …
European Studies February 12, 2021

European Banking and Financial Law

Matthias Haentjens and Pierre De Gioia-Carabellese

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Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in …
Economics February 8, 2021

Neoliberalism

A Very Short Introduction

Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K. Roy

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George Orwell once said that “the word ‘fascism’ has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”. The word ‘neoliberalism’ knows exactly how it feels …
European Studies February 3, 2021

The Orbán Regime

Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making

András Körösényi and Gábor Illés

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As Hungary's opposition parties form themselves into an unlikely pre-electoral coalition, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces the first genuine challenge to his "illiberal" rule since 2010. This is the second of …
European Studies January 14, 2021

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary

Gábor Scheiring

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As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had …
Economics January 4, 2021

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

Background, Impact, and Policy

Tara McIndoe-Calder, Tara Bedi and Rogelio Mercado

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In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyperinflation became an unlikely publishing hit more than three decades after its release …
Economics December 31, 2020

Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics

Dirk Ehnts

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With the coronavirus pandemic, Modern Monetary Theory met its moment. A sudden and massive loss of output globally was met with an unprecedented response by governments and central banks and …
European Studies December 15, 2020

Project Europe

A History

Kiran Klaus Patel

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Project Europe made waves when it was published in German in 2018 (CH Beck) and was soon translated into English as Project Europe: A History (Cambridge UP, 2020). A clue to …
Economics December 8, 2020

The Economics of Target Balances

From Lehman to Corona

Hans-Werner Sinn

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Every day, TARGET - Europe's cross-border payments system - processes transactions worth €2.5 trillion. Under its decentralised model, TARGET generates balances between the national central banks. These were tiny at …
Economics December 7, 2020

Big Tech and the Digital Economy

The Moligopoly Scenario

Nicolas Petit

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Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as the Robber Barons of the 21st century. Google recently …
European Studies November 20, 2020

European Integration

A Political History

Mark Gilbert

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“Awareness of the EU's undeniable past and present importance can - and has - led to complacency and hubris. There is nothing inevitable about European integration". So writes Mark Gilbert …
Economics November 17, 2020

The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19

Joshua Gans

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As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March, a self-isolating and easily distracted economist resolved to take himself in hand. "I decided I would do what I was good at …
Critical Theory November 9, 2020

The Asset Economy

Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper

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“The key element shaping inequality is no longer the employment relationship but rather whether one is able to buy assets that appreciate at a faster rate than both inflation and …
European Studies November 5, 2020

Money and Life

Ewald Nowotny

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In September 2008, Ewald Nowotny joined the governing council of the European Central Bank. Just two weeks later, Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy in US history - so triggering …
American Studies October 23, 2020

Stars with Stripes

The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States

Anthony L. Gardner

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If the US is – in the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – the "indispensible nation" then the economic, democratic and institutional alliance between the US and …
British Studies October 9, 2020

Reluctant European

Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit

Stephen Wall

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In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership. What was at the core of the country’s semi-detachment to the …
European Studies October 8, 2020

Currency, Credit and Crisis

Central Banking in Ireland and Europe

Patrick Honohan

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For readers – including non-economists – who want to get to grips with the nature and scale of the last financial crisis, how it was managed and mismanaged, and its …
European Studies September 24, 2020

The Tribalization of Europe

A Defence of our Liberal Values

Marlene Wind

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The European Union is arguably facing the greatest existential threat in its history. One of its big four member states has left and the main opposition parties in France and …
European Studies September 23, 2020

Markus Söder

The Shadow Chancellor

Roman Deininger and Uwe Ritzer

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Next year, Germany goes to the polls. For the first time in 15 years, Angela Merkel will not be a candidate for chancellor. Although a leadership election is underway inside …
British Studies September 4, 2020

Brexit And Financial Regulation

J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove

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The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with no successor trade agreement …
European Studies August 28, 2020

Walking the Highwire

Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis

Olli Rehn

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Walking the Highwire: Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) tells the story of the Eurozone’s crisis from the perspective of an insider who now sits on the …
European Studies August 13, 2020

Economics of Monetary Union

Paul De Grauwe

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First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s Economics of Monetary Union (Oxford University Press, 2020)has become a standard text for undergraduates seeking to understand …
Economics July 13, 2020

What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory?

A Policy Critique

Gerald Epstein

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Since the last-but-one financial crisis abated and governments responded to better times by clawing back their stimulus packages, a once-obscure economic philosophy has been gaining a growing following on the …