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Alan Shipman is lecturer in economics at The Open University, and a former financial journalist.

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Why nations fail Copyrighted Image Ronfromyork | Dreamstime.com

By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

07 March 2012

Economics Lecturer Alan Shipman asks why are some nations richer than others, and why is it so hard for the less well-off to close the...  Read more : Why nations fail

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Debt in 2012 Creative Commons Image By EU Social via Flickr under Creative Commons license

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

Find out more about debt in 2012 at an international level and a household level with these articles  Read more : Debt in 2012

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Debt: Wiping the slate cleanZoran Karapancev | Dreamstime.com

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

We look at economic anthropologist David Graeber's argument that defaulting on debt can liberate the borrower and bring social benefits that eventually reward the...  Read more : Debt: Wiping the slate clean

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Debt: Household pain Jupiter Images

By Jonquil Lowe (The Open University), Dr Gerry Mooney (The Open University), Alan Shipman (The Open University)

11 January 2012

We look at how decisions taken at international and national levels ripple down and can have major, even catastrophic effects, on individual citizens ...  Read more : Debt: Household pain

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By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

03 December 2010

Was Gordon Brown's rescue plan the only one not ghostwritten by Goldman Sachs? As he prepares to publish his book on the economy this...  Read more : Day 7 - Gordon and the Beanstalk

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Why Cameron may not grow to fit Lady Thatcher's shoesCreative Commons Image Andrew Parsons/The Conservative Party under CC-BY-NC-SA licence

By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

21 October 2010

Will the coalition's attempt to clear the deficit free the economy - or topple it over into deeper decline? Alan Shipman weighs where the pain...  Read more : Why Cameron may not grow to fit Lady Thatcher's shoes

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Financial wizardry?Creative Commons Image By altogetherfool via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

20 October 2010

Alan Shipman, the Open University's lecturer in economics, responds to the October 2010 Spending Review  Read more : Financial wizardry?

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Hung parliament: impact on UK economyCreative Commons Image LewishamDreamer under CC-BY-NC licence

By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

07 May 2010

What does a hung parliament mean for the UK economy?  Read more : Hung parliament: impact on UK economy

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By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

05 May 2010

Alan Shipman, lecturer in economics at The Open University, explores why politicians, regardless who's voted in, are condemned to axe not tax  Read more : Why politicians are condemned to axe not tax

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National Insurance: Ignoring past contributionsCreative Commons Image td-london under CC-BY-NC licence

By Alan Shipman (The Open University)

08 April 2010

Plans to increase National Insurance payments proved controversial - but why do employers so dislike this form of taxation?  Read more : National Insurance: Ignoring past contributions

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Research [3]

Browse Alan Shipman’s latest research from Open Research Online

Baert, Patrick and Shipman, Alan (2011). Transforming the intellectual. In: Rubio, Fernando Dominguez and Baert, Patrick eds. The Politics of Knowledge. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 179–204.

Mazzucato, Mariana; Lowe, Jonquil; Shipman, Alan and Trigg, Andrew (2010). Personal Investment: Financial Planning in an Uncertain World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Baert, Patrick; Jeronimo, Helena and Shipman, Alan (2009). Social science and the democratic ideal: from technocracy to dialogue. In: Van Bouwel, Jeroen ed. The Social Sciences and Democracy. Palgrave.

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Gold... always believe in?

Comment posted by zz900666

16 Mar 2012

Good article about the fascination of gold as an investment option. Good written but I personally like to have additional informations about such a topic with more details. For example I'd like to... Read more : Gold... always believe in?

Why Cameron may not grow to fit Lady Thatcher's shoes

Comment posted by zz642687

25 Oct 2010

 Deducing from Mervyn King, "Big Business" is growing at the maximum rate it can, whereas SMEs are limited by the high cost of finance from banks. Therefore, to get greater growth in... Read more : Why Cameron may not grow to fit Lady Thatcher's shoes

Why politicians are condemned to axe not tax

Comment posted by pmd269

19 Aug 2010

In a fractional reserve banking system all money is borrowed into existence and is in effect - debt. So my question is, how can we better define debt in the context of the deficit as a separate... Read more : Why politicians are condemned to axe not tax

Why politicians are condemned to axe not tax

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14 May 2010

The logic seems sound, although time will tell now that the circus is in town! I expect axe not tax is right... Read more : Why politicians are condemned to axe not tax

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Alan Shipman is lecturer in economics at The Open University, and a former financial journalist. His books include The Globalization Myth, The Market Revolution, and Transcending Transaction. He is involved in OU's new courses on personal finance, and research on insurance pools, 'chaos pricing' and Eastern Europe.

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