Monthly Archives: June 2026
South Korea
I find South Korea a fascinating country. One of the economic miracles of the second half of the 20th century, South Korea not only went from extremely poor in the 1950s, when it suffered the invasion of North Korea and … Continue reading
Who leaves when a central bank shrinks?
A couple of months ago, I started noticing something on LinkedIn: economists I knew at the Bank of England were announcing they were leaving the institution (always, curiously, with a picture of the building behind them). Many of them very … Continue reading
Generalists in the Age of AI
For most of modern intellectual history, the generalist has been losing. The trend is visible everywhere, including in academia. At my university, Bayes Business School, the finance faculty is divided into groups: banking, asset pricing, M&A, real estate,… These are … Continue reading
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