Japan can put people before profits
The key to a better-balanced economy is to take surplus profits away from a corporate oligopoly
- Masaaki Kanno The problems with Japan’s economic experiment
- Global Insight Japan’s PM wows voters with ‘Abenomics’
Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.
He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was a member of the UK government's Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-2011. Martin's most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance. E-mail Martin Wolf
A case to reset basis of monetary policy
The current regime is meant to stabilise inflation and help stabilise the economy. It has failed