POLICY PAPERS & OP-EDS

1.      Goodbye Greece (Social Europe 01/12)

2.      Have social democrats surrendered? (Social Europe 01/12)

3.      Labour’s ‘oxymoron lite’ (Compass 01/12)

4.      What Labour needs to say about debt (Left Foot Forward 01/12)

5.      Europe’s home-grown debt trap (Social Europe 01/12)

6.      The Debt-Brake disaster (Social Europe, 12/11)

7.      London protests and European meltdown (Social Europe, 12/11)

8.      Entrevista com Joana Gorjão Henriques (Publico, 12/11)

9.      Osborne proved the doom-mongers wrong---the economy is even worse than we expected (Left Foot Forward 11/11)

10.  Politics and the EU financial crisis (EU Observer 11/11)

11.  What happens when Greece defaults? (Left Foot Forward 11/11)

12.  Why Ms Merkel will blink (Social Europe, 11/11)

13.  How the bond markets shackled European democracy (Left Foot Forward 11/11/)

14.  Time for a Eurozone Plan B (Social Europe 11/11)

15.  Italy's crisis could be a blessing in disguise (Guardian CiF 11/11)

16.  Solving Euro Area trade imbalances (Social Europe 11/11)

17.  Plan B: the building blocks of a progressive UK (Social Europe 11/11)

18.  Why the latest euro deal won't work (Left Foot Forward 10/11)

19.  More half-measures for the euro (Social Europe 10/11)

20.  Eurozone break-up will be a disaster for jobs, growth and the environment (Left Foot Forward, 10/11)

21.  The same mistake again (Social Europe 10/11)

22.  Why we need nationalised banks (Social Europe 10/11)

23.  Europe's ostriches (Social Europe 10/11)

24.  Will Quantitative Easing work this time? (left Foot Forward 10/11)

25.  Europe's new credit crunch (EU Observer 10/11)

26.  A brighter future for the British economy [with M Burke, J Weeks] (False Economy, 09/11)

27.  Cuts will not end the crisis [with M Burke, J Weeks] (Guardian CiF, 09/11)

28.  An absurd Merkel-Sarkozy summit (EU Observer, 08/11)

29.  Riots and budgetary austerity (Social Europe 08/11)

30.  Where is progressive political leadership? (Social Europe 08/11)

31.  The current crisis (Left Foot Forward, 08/11)

32.  Fundamental flaws in the European project [with A Izurieta] (EPW, 08/11)

33.  Can the UK escape five years of depression? [with J Weeks & M Burke] (Social Europe 08/11)

34.  Euro: short term gain and long term pain (EU Observer 07/11)

35.  Can Europe's leaders end the eurozone nightmare? (Left Foot Forward 07/11)

36.  A eurozone bond could be the answer to Europe's debt crisis (Guardian CiF, 07/11)

  1. Solo gli Eurobond possono salvare l’Europa (EU Progress 07/11)

38.  Only a new Euro-bond can save Europe (Social Europe 07/11)

39.  The Amato/Verhofstadt proposal (Social Europe 07/11)

40.  Europe fiddles while Greece burns (EU Observer 07/11)

41.  Greece: the game is nearly up (Left Foot Forward 07/11)

42.  Greece must restructure its debt or face a messy default (CNN.com 06/11)

43.  Clegg's silly share giveaway (Left Foot Forward 06/11)

44.  Greece's unnecessary crisis (Social Europe 06/11)

45.  Has Greece already defaulted? (Social Europe 06/11)

46.  An endgame for the Eurozone (EU Observer 06/11)

47.  Should Greece repudiate its debt? (Social Europe 06/11)

48.  Government deficits and national accounting identities (Social Europe 06/11)

49.  The Eurozone is already a transfer union (EU Observer 06/11)

50.  Britain needs a genuine public investment bank (Social Europe 06/11)

51.  Banche: superare il neoliberismo (EU Progress, 05/11)

52.  Osborne's woes (Social Europe 04/11)

53.  A layman's guide to the Lefts' economic debate (Social Europe, 04/11)

54.  Portugal bailout: three scenarios for Europe's economic future (The Guardian CiF, 04/11)

55.  The big bailout scam (EU Observer, 04/11)

56.  Tracing the hidden treasure (Social Europe, 04/11)

57.  Can peace be brokered in Libya? (Left Foot Forward, 03/11)

58.  Libya: peace through war? (EU Observer, 03/11)

59.  An OECD whitewash for Osborne (Left Foot Forward, 03/11)

60.  Is Japan facing economic meltdown? (Left Foot Forward, 03/11)

61.  Structural deficit denial (Socialist Econ Bulletin 03/11)

62.  A food price feeding frenzy? (Social Europe 03/11)

63.  Britain: Targeting stagflation (EU Observer 03/11)

64.  Why worry about the European economy? (Social Europe 02/11)

65.  Inequality and recession in Britain and the USA (D&C 02/11)

66.  Tory right, obsessed with cuts, still deaf to the lessons of the thirties (Left Foot Forward, 02/11)

67.  All change in Egypt (Social Europe, 02/11)

68.  Another banking crisis for Europe? (EU Observer 01/11)

69.  Awkward questions for George Osborne (Social Europe, 01/11)

70.  VAT and voodoo economics (EU Observer 01/11)

71.  Happy New Year for the euro? (Social Europe 01/11)

72.  Interview in Epikaira (12/10)

73.  Germany at the heart of Europe's crisis (Social Europe 12/10)

74.  Could the euro disappear? (EU Observer 12/10)

75.  Ireland and the EU in denial (Social Europe 11/10)

76.  Interview in Eleftherotypia (11/10)

77.  TV Interview with Rattansi & Ridley (11/10)

78.  Political economy and policy issues [video] (Social Europe 11/10)

79.  Expansionary Fiscal Contraction and the emperor's clothes (Left Foot Forward 11/10)

80.  More socialism for the rich? (Social Europe 11/10)

81.  The myths swallowed by George Osborne (Guardian CiF, 11/10)

82.  The Goebbels Factor (Social Europe 10/10)

83.  A tipping point in British politics? (Compass 10/10)

84.  Even bankers want nationalised banks (Social Europe, 10/10)

85.  Once again, why Britain's cuts won't work (Social Europe 10/10)

86.  What if the USA were (economically) like the Eurozone? (Social Europe Journal 10/10)

87.  Can van Rompuy Save the EU Convoy? (Social Europe Journal 10/10)

88.  Why club-Med cuts won't work (EU Observer 10/10)

89.  The £100bn gamble: on growth without the state (Compass 09/10)

90.  When is public debt unsustainable? (Social Europe Journal 08/10)

91.  Rebuilding social democracy (Soundings 45, 08/10)

92.  Has Angela Merkel outlived her usefulness? (Social Europe Journal, 08/10)

93.  Call off the intergenerational wars (The Guardian Cif. 08/10)

94.  The Spirit level's political wobble: the inequality debate rages on (Social Europe Journal., 08/10)

95.  Running a permanent fiscal deficit? (Social Europe Journal, 08/10)

96.  The basics of budget balance (EU Observer, 08/10)

97.  Method in our budget madness? (Social Europe Journal, 07/10)

98.  The Eurozone and the USA (EU Observer, 07/10)

99.  The logic of Merkelomics (EU Observer 07/10)

100.                      Competitiveness through cuts? (Social Europe 07/10)

101.                      Can wage cuts boost Greek productivity? (Eleftherotypia, 07/10)

102.                      Clegg's lack of basic economics (Compass 07/10)

103.                      Nick Clegg's economic illiteracy (Social Europe 06/10)

104.                      Osborne's cuts make no sense (London Evening Standard 06/10)

105.                      The pain has just begun (Compass 06/10)

106.                      The end of Social Europe? (Social Europe 06/10)

107.                      Deficit hysteria will kill Europe (EU Observer, 05/10)

108.                      Cuts: the underlying problem (Compass, 05/10)

109.                      The perfect storm (Social Europe, 05/10)

110.                      The eye of the euro-storm (Social Europe, 05/10)

111.                      Despite the defeat, we still need PR (Compass, 05/10)

112.                      UK: The strange death of the rainbow coalition (Social Europe 05/10)

113.                      The real question is how best to win the referendum on PR (Compass, 05/10)

114.                      Should Greece simply default? (EU Observer, 05/10)

115.                      Greece still has a choice (The Guardian, 05/10)

116.                      Why sound money is unsound (EU Observer. 04/10)

117.                      German roots of Greek crisis remain (The Guardian, 04/10)

118.                      Interview in Greek Press (Eleftherotypia, 04/10)

119.                      Shielding a Keynesian recovery (The Guardian, 04/10)

120.                      Germany must help, not punish Greece (The Guardian 03/10)

121.                      Merkel's madness (EU Observer 03/10)

122.                      Understanding the Eurozone's structural imbalances (EU Observer 03/10)

123.                      Recalling Marx on Exploitation (Compass 03/10)

124.                      The wisdom of recycling trade surpluses (The Guardian 03/10)

125.                      What is Osborne's economic identity? (Compass 03/10)

126.                      Don't blame the baby-boomers (EU Observer 03/10)

127.                      Keynes and Christmas Turkeys (Compass 03/10)

128.                      Greece: socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor (EU Observer 03/10)

129.                      Rebuilding social democracy in 21st century Britain (draft for Soundings 02/10)

130.                      The EU must act on a Tobin tax (EU Observer 02/10)

131.                      Keynes can help the eurozone (The Guardian 02/10)

132.                      How serious is the euro-debt crisis? (EU Observer 02/10)

133.                      PBR: view from the Experts (Compass 12/09)

134.                      Now's the time for a Tobin Tax (The Guardian 12/09)

135.                      The real real crisis we're in (Compass 12/09)

136.                      In place of Cuts (Compass 11/09)

137.                      The Great Recession & Eurozone Governance (Clingendael 10/09)

138.                      Why Obama's health care plan matters to Europe (EU Observer 10/09)

139.                      The EU, the US and the Great Recession (EU Observer 08/09)

140.                      Global recession: spending cuts are not the answer (SOAS 08/09)

141.                      Death by a Thousand Cuts (EU Observer 07/09)

142.                      From Profit Squeeze to Wage Squeeze (Renewal 05/09)

143.                      Plugging the £39bn budget hole (letter to The Guardian 04/09)

144.                      Reykjavik-on-Thames? (Compass 02/09)

145.                      Should Britain now join the euro? (Compass 12/08)

146.                      The government must act far more decisively (Compass 12/08)

147.                      Why the public share of GDP must expand (Compass 11/08)

148.                      Can we spend our way out of recession? (Compass 11/08)

149.                      The PBR is uninspiring (Compass 11/08)

150.                      Understanding 'leveraging' and the financial meltdown  (Compass 10/08)

151.                      ECB's multimillion lending missing the mark (EU Observer10/08)

152.                      The Financial Crisis; where next? (EU Observer 09/08)

153.                      The ECB must act now to prevent deflation (EU Observer 09/08)

154.                      Could the credit crunch destroy the Eurozone? (EU Observer 07/08)

155.                      Democratic deficit or simply boredom? (EU Observer 07/08)

156.                      Who's to blame for rising petrol prices? (EU Observer 07/08)

157.                      Development Viewpoint (SOAS) (07/08)

158.                      Obama will tax the Super Rich more than Brown (06/08)

159.                      Are we returning to 1970s Stagflation? (EU Observer 06/08)

160.                      A Robin Hood lesson for New Labour (06/08)

161.                      Could a Financial Crisis Engulf Europe? (EU Observer 09/07)

162.                      Happiness and Pareto (ICER 07/07)

163.                      Inequality and the Anglo-American Economic Model (07/07)

164.                      Growing Inequality in the neo-liberal Heartland (PAER 03/07)

165.                      Global Rebalancing: US protection versus Europe-led reflation (11/06)

166.                      Swords into Green Ploughshares (11/06)

167.                      EU growth can offset the US debt crisis (09/06)

168.                      Yo-yo Blair (08/06)

169.                      Frankfurt follies (06/06)

170.                      French youth unemployment in perspective (06/06)

171.                      Europe v USA: Whose Economy Wins? (06/06)

172.                      Procreation or perdition (05/06)

173.                      The Centralising Curse of UK Treasury Rules (05/06)

174.                      Can Europe still afford the welfare state? (04/06)

175.                      US-EU: The End of The Affair (11/04)

176.                      The US Deficit, the EU surplus and the World Economy (04/06)

177.                      Implosion of the Brussels Economic Consensus (06/05)

178.                      Britpop: Tony and the Neo-cons (07/04)

179.                      Eurozone Economics, Enlargement and the Maastricht Rules (07/04)

180.                      Euro-2004 Blues Time (EU Observer 06/04)

181.                      Radical Measure (Prague Post 05/04)

182.                      The Awkward Economics of EU Enlargement (EU Observer 05/04)

183.                      Should the EU budget be capped at 1%? (EU Observer 04/04)

184.                      Europe's Absurd Budget Battle (EU Observer 01/04)

185.                      Korea, East Asia and the European Union (12/ 03)

186.                      The Unsound Doctrine of Sound Money (EU Observer 11/03)

187.                      The Meaning of Blocher (EU Observer 10/03)

188.                      Balanced budgets: David v Goliath? (EU Observer 10/03)

189.                      Let's have a real euro debate (Federal Union 09/03)

190.                      Voodoo economics and the Euro debate (07/03)

191.                      EcoFin Ministers must face deflationary danger (07/03)

192.                      Euro-sceptic spin: politics v economics (07/03)

193.                      Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: Britain and the Euro (07/03)

194.                      Is the Eurozone headed for economic deflation? (EU Observer 07/03)



* UHD Professor of Economics, ISS, The Hague (retired); Professorial Fellow, University of London, SOAS until late 2008.