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IV The Power of Global Finance

Under present arrangements, finance too often acts as a malevolent force, rewarding private sectional interests at the expense of the public interest. This is because the globalisation of markets has run ahead of our power to control them. Properly harnessed, global finance could be, again, an enormously powerful force for good. Designing such a harness…
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Written on November 14, 2013 at 5:57 pm, by robert

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Memories of Professor James Buchanan

I first came across James Buchanan through his long-term collaborator and colleague, Professor Gordon Tullock. It must have been in 1972 or 1973. Gordon and I met by accident in Frankfurt, where I was interviewing the then president of the Bundesbank for The Banker, of which I was then editor. We had one of those…
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Written on January 13, 2013 at 9:26 pm, by robert

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Tags: Andrew Crockett, David Graeber, Debt The First 5000 years, global financial system, Gordon Tullock, IMF, Interlaken Seminars, James Buchanan, Karl Brunner, Keith Hart, Michael Jensen, public choice, Public Choice Centre, Robert Skidelsky, Skidelsky, Tyler Cowen