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Long-running series from leading social scientists on markets, macro policy, public wealth, and more.
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- 2 articlesThe Public Balance SheetGovernments are among the largest asset holders on earth and among the worst at knowing what they own. Three pieces on why public wealth stays invisible, and what changes when it is counted.
- 3 articlesMarkets and Their DiscontentsBehavioural finance, trading frenzies and the plumbing that fails when confidence does. On what markets actually do, as opposed to what the models say they do.
- 2 articlesInstitutions Under StrainHow states, unions and markets are built, and what holds them together when they are tested, from Montenegrin independence to the insurers who underwrote a young republic.
The Series
- Public WealthDag DetterPrincipal of Detter & Co.; Former President, Swedish National Wealth Fund, Detter & Co.Latest: The Next Infrastructure Boom Is Hiding on Public Balance Sheets
- Mainly MacroSimon Wren-LewisEmeritus Professor of Economics, University of OxfordLatest: Labour’s Brexit Stance Is As Untenable As Their Tax Pledge
- Musings on MarketsAswath DamodaranProfessor of Finance, New York University Stern School of BusinessLatest: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!
- The Finance BlogJohan HombertProfessor of Finance, HEC ParisLatest: Making DeepSeek Speak About Tiananmen
- Carol Alexander’s BlogCarol AlexanderProfessor of Finance, University of SussexLatest: How Will The Shanghai Fork Affect The De-Fi Crypto Ecosystem?
- MavereconWillem H. BuiterIndependent Economic Advisor, Cambridge UniversityLatest: The Single Mother of All Liquidity Enhancement Conduits
