I’m a student in the UK, due to begin a master's degree in International Political Economy in September 2008. This blog is intended to complement my studies by addressing perennial issues and current affairs.
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This blog was conceived to tie in with my studies. Since I’ve now completed my master’s, it’s time to wrap up the blog. For the record, From Davos to Seattle has been live for a year and five months. In that time it has been visited 11,697 times. If...
I received an email today from One.org. As regular readers will know, I’ve often spoken well of this charity, having found them to be pretty right on most of the time. The email says that today is the global day of action against extreme poverty. So...
The Davos to Seattle Award for Best Crisis-Themed Song goes to The Destroyers for their tune ‘Where has the money gone?’ The Destroyers are ‘a 15-headed conflagration of instrumentalists, vocalists and composers, specialising in turbo-folk mélanges of...
The latest G20 summit seems to have gone off as well as could be expected – and perhaps a little better. Markets are up today.
It’s always hard to know how much was decided in advance, but damn near all of it would be a pretty good guess. The final...
Kindred Winecoff (IPE at UNC) responded on Monday to an op-ed by Dani Rodrik, which advocated the Tobin Tax once more. This was in turn a response to the comments made by Adair Turner in last month’s Prospect and briefly discussed here at Davos to...