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To read more columns dating back to 2011, please visit TFF blog. For columns dating back to 1997 please visit TFF old site 

Looking back from the year 2250.

In 1776 Adam Smith published his “Wealth of Nations” which has guided economists and political thinkers ever since. It marks the start of...

China is not going to be a miracle.

The Nobel-prize winning economist, Robert Fogel, believes that China will grow at an average rate of 8% until 2040, by which time it will...

Our less violent world.

The world over most of public opinion is ignorant of just how much violence has declined over the last 3,000 years. Judging by the...

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