By: Paul Ormerod

Paul Ormerod is an economist at Volterra Partners LLP, author and an Honorary Professor at the Alliance Business School at the University of Manchester

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Monopolies hire too many pointless managers and kill off productivity growth

April 19, 2023

Does your boss - or the economy - really need you?
Our ailing productivity is workers’ payback to the greed of bankers after the 2008 crash

April 12, 2023

If workers are quiet quitting, its because they have seen bankers get away with getting paid more for doing less.
From international trade to interest rates, macroeconomics is in yet another tail spin

April 5, 2023

Last week, anti-Brexit campaigners started complaining about the minuscule economic benefit of joining the CPTPP, but almost no one shaking a fist knows a thing about microeconomics, writes Paul Ormerod
Yes, money can buy happiness and our well-being doesn’t plateau as we get richer

March 29, 2023

The secret to happiness is...money. Recent studies have finally solved the debate on how to calculate what makes us happy, and indeed, it's having more funds, writes Paul Ormerod
Our struggle with illegal immigration will be nothing compared to in 10 years time

March 22, 2023

The draw for people to come to the UK will only become greater as climate change starts to cause extreme weather, writes Paul Ormerod.
A post-mortem of pandemic-era lockdowns expose a dangerous disregard for scepticism

March 15, 2023

Did any of the government ministers during lockdown listen to dissenting opinions?
Our regulators are too close to those they should be regulating – and this is a problem

March 1, 2023

Political parties of all colours have been lauding our regulators as "world class". Unfortunately, our regulatory bodies actually have a quite problematic record of failures, writes Paul Ormerod
Sports clubs defy the normal rules of markets and won’t bend to a football watchdog

February 22, 2023

Popularity of sports club is driven by their performance on the field, not by their financials. The very best efforts of a football regulator wouldn’t be able to change the way cultural markets work, writes Paul Ormerod.
The race for AI-powered search engines is a long war and ChatGPT could easily lose

February 15, 2023

Will ChatGPT mean the end of Google searches as we know them? As tech giants compete to get their version of the AI tool in pole position, all is not lost for Google, writes Paul Ormerod
Poor educational outcomes for today’s children could create a future wave of crime

February 8, 2023

Children who started back at school post-pandemic lost valuable life skills, and if we don’t make up for it quickly, it could mean more deprivation - and crime - in Britain, writes Paul Ormerod.

Monzo in talks over £10bn sale to Nubank in blow to IPO hopes

AI and politics will never destroy the beauty of supporting clubs like Bournemouth

Two countries, one holiday: Turkey’s glitzy Bodrum and Greece’s unbuttoned Kos

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