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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 November 20, 2020

European Integration

A Political History

Mark Gilbert

Hosted by Tim Jones
“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 in European Integration: A Political History (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), a compact, narrative history of the European Communities and the European Union pitched at both political-science students and the general reader. Sympathetic to the integration process but critical of “Whig” …
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

Hosted by Tim Jones
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 …