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The more I try to change my career path, the more I realise that editorial work is probably the best work in the world – despite the lack of reward or general appreciation. This week I did a project management course. The trainer talked about ‘forming, storming, norming and performing‘. This is a technique for managing your team, but somehow it made me think of the police and how they manage demonstrations. › Continue reading

It was only about a week ago that the news was full of foreboding, doom, depression, debate on quantitative easing and pictures of Gordon Brown, frowning like a constipated puppy next to headlines about deficit forecasts. But now we have all been saved (again) apparently – or have we? Could it just be that very few of us – economists included – really understand any of the words being used to describe the present ‘global economic crisis’? › Continue reading