Finance & economics
Italian securities
Mission implausible
South Africa's economy
Turnaround
Up the NAIRU without a paddle
In the 1970s, mainstream thinking on unemployment converted to a new conservative orthodoxy. Now, liberals are making those ideas their own
Investment banking
Eviction in the City
The troublesome marriage of Germany's Dresdner Bank with Kleinwort Benson, a British merchant bank, has lessons for other would-be suitors
Crédit Lyonnais
An affair of state
Crédit Lyonnais
Problems, problems
The bank, the studio, the mogul and the lawyers
Crédit Lyonnais is having a miserable time in Hollywood. It can expect harder times in Paris too
Crédit Lyonnais
A state puppet?
From the archive
The death of Drexel
From the archives
A tax to keep cool
In 1989, The Economist argued that the only way for governments to stop global warming is to put a price on pollution, preferably with a carbon tax
From the archive
Schumpeter Centenary
In June we published four essays marking the centenary of the birth of Maynard Keynes. A number of readers asked for an article on 1983's other centenarian economist, Joseph Schumpeter. Here it is.