Brexit
Whether Britain leaving the European Union was right or wrong, good or bad is for the Brits to decide. But there are lessons about international trade to be learned from Brexit, especially as it is very unusual for an economy to break so completely from its major training partner.
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Why is the British Economy in Greater Trouble Than Most Others?
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Whatever the damage, especially to the British economy, Brexit has done us a service by illustrating the complexity of trade.
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Over-reach is a common crime in politics and business. But a day of reckoning always comes, as leaders in this country and some of the world’s biggest powers are discovering to their cost
Read MoreThe chaos of Boris Johnson, the vacuous response to US gun violence, Harry and Megan’s family size, and the surge of Andrew Yang… overseasia is a curious place right now
Read MoreKevin O’Rourke’s ‘A Short History of Brexit’ provides an excellent introduction to the British muddle, but does not resolve it.
Read MoreThe theories one uses needs to be explicit, especially when the issue is as complicated as Brexit or Trump.
Read MoreThe Way the Voting is Organised Matters Too.
Read MoreBrexit illustrates the challenges of economic independence and interdependence.
Read MoreThe consequences of Britain leaving the EU have exposed the complexity of one country’s economic relations with its partners.
Read MoreHow big does a country have to be?
Read MoreWhile Todd Barclay and Labour's interens have sparked some life into election year politics, here's hoping we learn from overseas and scandal isn't the dominate theme of Election 2017
Read MoreThis is a follow up ‘Brentry: How New Zealand Coped’, setting out some of the challenges which face New Zealand today.
Read MoreThis is based on a note that I prepared for a journalist. It is a lead into the next column which is on ‘Brexit: How New Zealand Might Cope’.
Read MoreIn the days of Trump and Brexit, it could be time for those who want a society based on openness, knowledge and new opportunities to revisit an out-of-fashion idea
Read MoreEconomists and policy analysts have paid insufficient attention to the distributional consequences of change. Hence the rise of the angries.
Read MoreR (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union is going to keep constitutional lawyers in the UK (and elsewhere in the Commonwealth) very busy for the upcoming months and years. Here's my humble early offerings on it.
Read MoreThe alienated Angries who supported Brexit and Trump are not going to go away.
Read MoreIt is important that judges face criticism―but not attacks like those on the judges who decided the Brexit case
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