John Powell | Dept of Strategy & Management | Leicester Business School
This is where all the Economics in the News ends up! The archives have been building up since November 2001, when I decided to stop physically cutting out newspaper articles – it was time-consuming and I rarely sorted and filed them sufficiently. The motive was to build a collection of articles I could use in teaching, but it also has become a shared resource for students and staff (and not just from DMU, looking at the web logs!). There is a wealth of articles here and the restructuring of the archives should help you get to it more easily.
I originally categorised the articles into Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and 'General' (see the menus on the right). Within each of these classifications are further subdivisions, and the articles are listed in date order, with most recent at the top. The articles retain their module logos to identify general relevance. Subsequent restructuring pulled out the Structure and Conduct archive into its own category – Micro: Firms & Markets, complete with indusry subdivisions. Further developments refined the macro archive and this year (2006) added both a tech archive and split the General archive into a specific Ethics + Environment archive and Miscellany (which includes Key Thinkers ).
14/2/06 Greed
of the highest order and the worst privatisation since rail [George Monbiot]
From the hubbub surrounding the privatisation of the British government's
defence research service, Qinetiq, last week, one statement stopped me dead.
Lord Drayson, the minister for defence procurement, asserted that it was
a "good model for future privatisations". Three things hit me.
The first was that Lord Drayson is minister for defence procurement. This
remarkable fact had until then passed me by. The second was that, if the
government really is envisaging further privatisations, this is the first
we've heard of it. What else did Drayson have in mind? Is there anything
that hasn't been sold already? The third was that, with the exception of
the privatisation of the railways in 1996, it would be hard to think of a
worse model for a government sell-off. 
