My job market paper

Virtually ungoverned
17th December, 2006
China is becoming the new frontier for those studying the internet’s encroachment into the physical world. Even the country’s central bank feels insecure: in November 2006, Li Chao, spokesman for The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said that virtual money had become such a worry that the central bank is drafting regulations [...]

Last leg

I don’t think I am the right kind of person to get into a debate about football but nevermind. I have always imagined that one must be slightly overweight and half drunk to command the sort of presence needed to get one’s point across in a noisy pub-like environment. Nevertheless, here is what I have [...]

Eleventh hour

I am sure that I have said somewhere before that I do some of my best (only) work when under pressure. Well, the deadline for applications to this internship at the Economist is mindnight tonight. At least I got it in on time this year. Last year I think I was two days late. Anyway, [...]

Effortless

Some friends seem to be oddly interested in my wannabe-journalistic exploits so I am going to post up another sample article purposefully written for another internship position. This one is for the Financial Times. With a restrictive 500-word limit, I am not sure how they are going to judge the entries and this feels like [...]

The Invisible Hand

In the frenzy of reaction to the natural disaster in Asia, it occurred to me that the British Government is now strategically playing a game against its own people. I am referring to the government’s steadfast refusal to announce any precise figures for the amount of aid it intends to give as part of the [...]

Christmas

Economists are an amusing lot. I read a really well written and witty article today that only an economist would write. Its main point was that rather than vilifying Scrooge from Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’, we should uphold him as a most selfless soul, truly in keeping with the season of giving. Indeed, the miser [...]