By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald October 23rd, 2005 Review of: Oilwork: The North Sea Diaries, by Sue Jane Taylor (Birlinn, £14.99) FOR a brief decade from 1973, it looked like the North Sea oil boom might transform the UK economy. Black gold was being pumped out of the continental shelf in ever increasing quantities, creating [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald January 30th, 2005 Quiet balmy beaches, mountain passes and buckets of blueberries AS THE Norrona hove into view on a dark summer night, I could tell this was going to be a holiday with a difference. The vessel, described as a “cruise-ferry” by the Faroes-based Smyril Line that operates it, [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald July 7th, 2002 JOSEPH Stiglitz is a rare breed, an heretical economist who has ruffled the self-satisfied global establishment that once fed him. When I met him in the fashionable surroundings of One Aldwych last week, Stiglitz warned that current fears about the reliability of corporate accounts could easily extend [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald May 19th, 2002 Review of: The world we are in by Will Hutton (Little, Brown, £17.99) WILL Hutton has issued what he presents as a wake-up call to Britain. In The World We’re In, the sequel to his 1995 blockbuster The State We’re In, the former Observer editor-in-chief argues that [...]
By Ian Fraser Sunday Herald November 18th, 2001 Review of: Dr Stangelove’s game: A brief history of economic genius, by Paul Strathern (Hamish Hamilton, £14.99) AS its nickname suggests, the “dismal” science has a reputation for being dry, uninspiring and perhaps the stamping ground for depressive pessimists. The reality is different. While some of the [...]
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