Dalibor Rohac is an economist at the Legatum Institute in London. Follow Dalibor on Twitter. It has become customary for European leaders and observers of eurozone’s debt crisis to invoke the name of Alexander Hamilton. As the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, Hamilton urged the federal government to ‘assume’ and honor the debt of U.S. states […]
Dalibor Rohac is a Research Fellow at the Legatum Institute. Although we do not yet know the final number of victims and have only an uncertain idea of the current situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant, it is clear that the earthquake that hit Japan on Friday is an enormous tragedy, pointing out the fragility […]
Dalibor Rohac is a Research Fellow at the Legatum Institute The Franco-German proposal for common economic policy in the Eurozone, presented today at the European summit in Brussels, can be seen as a case of political posturing directed at the German electorate, in order to provide an ex-post justification for the financial aid packages directed […]
Dalibor Rohac is a Research Fellow at the London-based Legatum Institute. Formerly a Weidenfeld Scholar at the University of Oxford, he works on topics related to development and free-market economics. When the EU commissioner Janusz Lewandowski unveils his proposal to introduce an EU-wide tax in September, he will not be met warmly. Nor should he […]
Dalibor Rohac is an economist at the Legatum Institute in London. Follow Dalibor on Twitter.. After the sub-prime bubble in the United States, one would assume that policymakers have learned that governments need to be cautious about encouraging the accumulation of debt in specific areas of the economy. Not in the United Kingdom, it seems. Ed Balls, the […]