G20 leaders met in Pittsburgh on 24-25 September and released a communique about the path forward. It is long and covers a very broad range of issues from financial stability to climate change and to development strategies. The key message

I am scheduled to speak at the international conference on European research that will be held in Wroclaw on 4th September 2009, see also my earlier post below. I prepared a speech inspired by the famous Sir Winston Churchill speech

I was invited to deliver an opening speech at the international symposium "European Research on the Move". The title of my speech is "Development strategies: a matter of choice". The Symposium "is devoted to the debate on expected changes in

Take a look at the following link , it describes a giant mortgage fraud scheme that led to the current financial crisis. Financial market regulators did not notice. The only regulator in the world that took action, to my knowledge,

Before I go on to answer the questions of who will be the next world superpower, let me suggest that you take a look at the most recent issue of OECD leading indicators. Media have recently been very bullish on

As announced by the IMF today Mexico was the first country to indicate its interest in the Flexible Credit Line, dedicated for emerging markets countries with strong fundamentals, and not subject to any policy conditionality. Mexico, if approved by the

has been published by opendemocracy.net. It argues that Obama plan is deeply flawed. I invite both humans and zombies to comment.

The crisis of 2008 is a global one, the whole world is affected. In such case one should use a closed economy intellectual framework to understand what can happen going forward. Exchange rates do not matter (we do not trade

I wrote a text with Marcin Piątkowski about unjustified fear of CEE meltdown, it was published on eurointelligence last night. However fear can lead to more fear and to a panic and we suggest that both national authorities, the EU

Below are few paragraphs from a secondary school textbook on Earth economic history published in 2110."Earth in 2010 was a developing world. Fragmented rule of law, low level of income, galactic-high income inequality, low level of technological development (imagine that

On 19 October 2009, Gdansk played host to the 3rd Regional Belarusian-Pomeranian Economic Forum.