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Interview on Positive Linking, DNA Magazine (India), October 2012
Review of The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, Nature Magazine, September 2012
Social Networks can Spread the Olympic Effect, ‘World View’ Nature Magazine, September 2012
Who will rule the 21st Century?, The Spectator, August 2012
The Sunday Review: Positive Linking, Anthony Painter, August 2012
The Santa Fe bar with a useful lesson for London’s Olympic organisers, CITY AM August 2012
A champagne prize for the worst Treasury team in modern British history, CITY AM August 2012
Japan shows we can’t rely on inflation to tame rampant government debt, CITY AM July 2012
Ignore the IMF: Economic forecasts have a history of being unreliable, CITY AM, July 2012
Fragile networks: Why the RBS computer glitch could happen anywhere, CITY AM, July 2012
 Network Effects Bryan Appleyard’s review of Positive Linking published in the Sunday Times, July 2012
 When Copying Others is the Rational Choice Claire Jones’ review of Positive Linking published in the FT, July 2012
Confidence is key to lasting global economic recovery, Guardian journalist Larry Elliot’s response to my latest book ‘Positive Linking’, July 2012
Deficit spending didn’t end the Great Depression and it won’t save us now, CITY AM June 2012,
Shareholder activism proves that regulating pay would be senseless, CITY AM May 2012
The U.S. recovery wasn’t wreaked by massive cuts, CITY AM March 2012
‘Does Money Make us Happier’, The Independent commentator Dominic Lawson responds to the IEA publication ‘…And The Pursuit of Happiness’ and quotes from my chapter ‘The Folly of Wellbeing in Public Policy’, January 2012
A network is as good as a nudge for a Big Society, Financial Times, 15th September 2010. The text is also available here.
‘The Guardian, December 2009’ Here is a short piece in the Guardian newspaper about the political economy of public spending. The Left often imagines that public spending is automatically a Good Thing. This piece gives a different perspective.
‘Patterns of recession and recovery’, Financial Times, May 2009
‘Munros are no longer our bag’, Scotsman, May 2009
‘The economy is a butterfly’, Giornale di Brescia, May 2009
‘Don’t panic!’ New Statesman, May 2009. The UK government has attracted a lot of criticism for its projections on public sector debt. Here I consider the extent to which they are justified. A slightly condensed version of this appeared in the New Statesman of 7 May 2009.
‘How 2009 is going to rebuild us all ‘ Sunday Times, January 2009.