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About Tim Jones
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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NBN Episodes hosted by Tim:
European Studies
February 19, 2021
The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union
Signe Rehling Larsen
Hosted by Tim Jones
“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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
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 …
Economics
November 17, 2020
The Pandemic Information Gap and the Brutal Economics of Covid-19
Joshua Gans
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
“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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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
Hosted by Tim Jones
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 …
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