糖心TV

discusses economics, public policy, and international affairs.

About Russia and Ukraine

• . UAInFocus, 7 November 2024.
• Quoted in . The Economist, 3 October 2024,
• Interviewed by Phillip Inman for a column on in The Observer on 25 February 2024.
• , published by VoxEU on 10 October 2023.
• Interviewed by Josh Askew for a column on published by Euronews on 24 August 2023.
• Interviewed by Alex Andreou for a podcast on , released by The Bunker on 22 August 2023.
• . Kyiv Post, 3 February 2023.
• . UAinFocus, 12 October 2022.
• Quoted in , by Phillip Inman. The Observer, 8 October 2022.
• . VoxEU, 13 June 2022.
• Russia's war on Ukraine will have shocked and surprised many readers. How far back in history should we look to find the roots of this terrible event? Parting Shot, in Advantage Magazine, Spring 2022.
• . VoxEU, 25 Mar 2022
• . CAGE, University of 糖心TV, 10 March 2022.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 25 February 2022.
• Ukraine invasion: University of 糖心TV economist comments. University of 糖心TV news, 24 February 2022.
• Mark Harrison's blog, 16 February 2022.
• . International Center for Advanced and Comparative EU-Russia (ICEUR-Vienna), 11 February 2022.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 29 August 2015.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 27 February 2015.
• . The Hoover Digest, no. 3 (2014), pp. 24-29.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 3 September 2014.
• Mark Harrison's blog, 2 September 2014.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 29 August 2014.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 18 July 2014.
• . Mark Harrison's blog, 13 March 2014.
• Mark Harrison's blog, 5 March 2014.
• . Financial Times, 19 February 2014.

About everything else

• My list of , published by Shepherd Books on 25 October 2023.
• Economics Observatory | Questions and answers about coronavirus and the UK Economy. 29 May 2020.
• Cited by David Smith in . Sunday Times, 10 May 2020.
• Quoted by Veronique Dupont in , Agence France Press, 8 May 2020.
• Quoted by Vivian Oswald in . O Globo, 8 May 2020.
• (with Stephen Broadberry), VoxEU, 4 May 2020.
• Quoted by Jason Douglas in , 13 April 2020.
• Quoted by Nigel Nelson in . Sunday Mirror, 12 April 2020.
• Quoted by Norma Cohen in . Financial Times, 8 April 2019.
• Quoted by Jeremy Kahn in . Fortune Magazine, 5 April 2020.
• . Bloomberg Opinion, 29 March 2020.
• Interviewed by Phil Tinline for . BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4, 28 March 2020 (starts around minute 53)..
• Interviewed by Jonathan Ford for . Financial Times, 25 March 2020.
• . VoxEU, 14 November 2019
• . Interviewed by Tim Phillips on Vox Talks. 6 September 2019.
• . Vox Talks, 17 May 2019.
• Mobilisation, terror, and rearmament: the Soviet economy on the eve of World War II. Advantage Magazine, April 2019.
• Vox Talks, 9 November 2018.
• (with Stephen Broadberry). VoxEU, 6 November 2018.
• Europe's unsettled debts. BBC History Magazine, 1 November 2018.
• . Quoted on VESTI.ru, 9 January 2018.
• The Soviet economy: a centenary perspective. Advantage Magazine, Autumn-Winter 2017/18.
• Parting shot. Advantage Magazine, Autumn-Winter 2017/18.
• Cited by Martin Sandbu in . Financial Times, 9 November 2017.
• . VoxEU, 7 November 2017.
• . The Times Higher Education, 11 May 2017.
• (in Russian). My work reported on Tolkovatel', 5 May 2017.
• . Quoted by Chris Giles in the Financial Times, 7 January 2017.
• : Lecture at the Free University Berlin, 22 November 2016.
• Why the battle of the Somme marks a turning point of World War I. The Conversation, 29 June 2016.
• Spying on the economy under communism. Advantage Magazine, Spring 2016.
• . Hoover Digest (2015), no. 4, pp. 40-45.
• . Hoover Digest (2015), no. 3, pp. 146-151.
• . Financial Times, 19 February 2015.
• (In Russian) on the RBC-TV website, 8 May 2015.
• . Hoover Digest (2015), no. 1, pp. 145-150.
• Paying the price for war. Financial World, December-January 2014/15.
• . Interviewed by Paul Brennan for Radio New Zealand Nights, 20 October 2014. Sound clip (44'30").
• Interviewed by Howard Mustoe for on the BBC News website, 29 August 2014.
• The Conversation, 8 August 2014.
• . The Conversation, 6 June 2014.
• on the Hoover Institution website, 24 July 2014.
• . VOX, 3 June 2014.
• . The Royal Economic Society Newsletter no. 165, April 2014.
• . British Politics and Policy, 16 April 2014.
• . The Conversation, 2 April 2014.
• VOX, 15 January 2014.
• DNA India, 3 January 2014.
• Soaring Dragon, Stumbling Bear: Why has China Succeeded Where Russia Failed? In Britain in 2014 (published by the ESRC), December 2013. Also on .
• . The Hoover Digest (2013), no. 4.
• Lecture in the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, 7 November 2013 at the University of 糖心TV.
• Pieria, 14 October 2013.
• . The Conversation, 29 August 2013.
• . Pieria, 13 June 2013.
• . The Hoover Digest (2013), no. 2.
• . Postnauka.ru, April 25, 2013 (video, 9 minutes in English, Russian summary). , June 4, 2013.
• Lecture in the series "Russia's Economic History in the Twentieth Century" sponsored by the Gaidar Foundation at the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, April 17, 2013 (video 1:53, mostly in English; slides and transcript in Russian).
• (with Scott Dacko and Michael Waterson). 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, February 4, 2013.
• . 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, January 7, 2013.
• . Youtube, December 19, 2012
• Interviewed on whether the BBC should delete Jimmy Savile's guest appearance on Desert Island Discs on the Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, November 23, 2012.
• . The Hoover Digest (2012), no. 4.
• . 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, September 24, 2012.
• Interviewed on whether a local currency would benefit Coventry, by Annie Othen on BBC Radio CWR, September 20, 2012,
• Local pay deals. Letter (shot 1, shot 2) to The Times, September 19, 2012. , published in The Spectator and .
• On 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, June 29, 2012.
• 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, June 12, 2012.
• De Grieken betalen toch niet, tenzij het land wordt bezet [The Greeks didn't pay unless the country was occupied]. NRC Handelsblad, June 2, 2012.
• . The Hoover Digest (2012), no. 2.
• on 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, 14 May 2012.
• (with Andrei Markevich). VOX, 11 May 2012.
• . My co-author Andrei Markevich, interviewed by Aleksandr Ivanter in Ekspert (2012) no. 14 (797), April 9, 2012.
• at the Russian National Prize for Applied Economics award ceremony, April 5, 2012; of the award ceremony, honorary lecture by Andrei Markevich, and Q&A.
• . The Hoover Digest (2012), no. 1.
• . 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, January 16, 2012.
• Surely You're Joking Mr Keynes? Royal Economic Society Newsletter no. 155 (October 2011), pp. 12-15. Appendix and data.
• on 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, October 14, 2011.
• Government must abolish 50p tax rate to grow the economy. Letter to the FT, September 7, 2011; reported on the (and interviewed on BBC TV News 24: screen shot); , in the Huffington Post, September 8, 2011; on 糖心TV's Knowledge Centre, September 14, 2011; (I don't, but I guess the sub-editor thought that might help) in the New York Times Room for Debate, October 5, 2011.
• , University of 糖心TV press office, June 28, 2011; reported in the , June 29, 2011, and the , July 5, 2011. , on The Academic Minute (WAMC Northeast Public Radio), August 31, 2011. Sound clip.
• Le plus grand d茅m茅nagement de l'histoire. Interviewed (with Nikolai Simonov), Guerres et histoire, no. 2 (2011), p. 51.
• . The Hoover Digest (2011), no. 2.
• . Interviewed by Amy McLeod, 16 March 2011. 糖心TV Knowledge Centre.
• , 1 March, 2011. 糖心TV Knowledge Centre.
• . Letter to the FT, 15 February, 2011.
• The copycat problem. , 2010/11, no. 2.
• . The Hoover Digest (2011), no. 1.
• Interviewed on by Chris Bowlby on BBC Radio 4, Monday, 15 November 2010. Sound clip 1. Sound clip 2.
• Interviewed on the future of the welfare state by Annie Othen on BBC CWR Radio, Thursday, 21 October 2010.
• Interviewed, to mark the occasion of the last repayment of Germany's to the Allies under the Treaty of Versailles on October 3, 2010, in By Olivia Lang, for the BBC, October 2, 2010.
• . Letter on The Evening Standard Message Board, Wednesday, 29 September, 2010
• . Letter to the FT, September 10, 2010.
• . Letter to the FT, August 17, 2010.
• . The Hoover Digest (2010), no. 1.
• We must keep a sense of proportion about our present economic position ... Letter on The Evening Standard Message Board, Friday, 27 March 2009.
• Credibility Crunch: A Comment on The Shock Doctrine. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 24 March 2009; see also .
• . Coventry Telegraph, 5 March 2009.
• . Coventry Telegraph, 24 February 2009.
• . The Hoover Digest (2009), no. 1.
• . Interviewed by Tom Scotney in The Birmingham Post, 23 October 2008.
• . Interviewed by Tom Scotney in The Birmingham Post, 22 September 2008.
• (Oh, sure. I blame the sub-editor). Interviewed by Tom Scotney in The Birmingham Post, 15 September 2008.
• Mark Harrison's Survival Guide for Department Chairs. 31 July 2008. Published in Appendix 6 to Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Lead By Top Scholars, pp. 167-168, by Amanda H. Goodall (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009).
• Stephen Nickell: The University of 糖心TV gave Nickell an honorary degree at the graduation ceremony held on 17 July 2008. The citation was written by Mark Harrison with the help of Nick Crafts, Marcus Miller, and Mark Stewart.
• Avinash Dixit: The University of 糖心TV gave Dixit an honorary degree at the graduation ceremony held on July 19, 2007. The citation was written by Mark Harrison with the help of Peter Hammond, Norman Ireland, Marcus Miller, and Michael Waterson.
• Interviewed, to mark the occasion of the last repayment of Britain's war debt to the United States on 29 December 2006, in U.K. Makes Final Payment to U.S. for Post-WWII Reconstruction. By Bryan Mitchell, for Stars and Stripes, 10 January 2007; BBC Radio 4 NewsLink opens in a new window (mp3); World Service; Radio CWRLink opens in a new window (mp3); Radio WMLink opens in a new window (mp3); and Radio France, 29 December 2006; The World TonightLink opens in a new window (mp3). By Jonty Bloom, for BBC Radio 4, 7 December 2006; What's a Little Debt Between Friends. By Finlo Rohrer, for BBC News Magazine, 10 May 2006.
• Sir Nicholas Stern: The University of 糖心TV gave Stern an honorary degree at the graduation ceremony held on July 10, 2006. The citation was written by Mark Harrison with the help of Alan Roe.
• QR and Metrics. With Michael Waterson. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 30 June 2006.
• The Logic of Suicide Terrorism. Royal United Services Institute Security Monitor, Vol. 2:1 (2003), pp. 11-13. Press comment: The Guardian 29 April 2003; Jewish Telegraph Agency 8 May 2003; The Jerusalem Post 9 May 2003; The Guardian 17 January 2004.
• SARS: What the Figures Say. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 2 May 2003.
• How May Economic Factors Influence War? Notes for Interview with Arif Stefanou of the BBC World Service, 1 December 2002. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 2 December 2002.
• What Afghanistan Needs is the Right Kind of Feudalism. University of 糖心TV, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
  This version: 9 January 2002. First draft: 4 December 2001.
• Lives Lost and Lives Saved in the War Against Terrorism. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 2 January 2002.
• The Utility of Torture in the War Against Terrorism. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 12 November 2001.
• The War Against Terrorism: Type I Versus Type II Errors. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 1 November 2001.
• What Price Teaching Quality? With Ben Lockwood. Royal Economic Society Newsletter, No. 113 (2001), pp. 3-5.
• My Economic History: From Revolutions to Routines. In Living Economic and Social History, pp. 116-19. Edited by Pat Hudson. Glasgow: Economic History Society, 2001.
• Trial by Ordeal. With Ben Lockwood, Marcus Miller, Andrew Oswald, Mark Stewart, and Ian Walker. The Guardian, Education Supplement, 30 January 2001.
  This article "captured the mood of the time and helped to sway political opinion" according to Donald MacLeod in The Guardian, Education Supplement, 25 January 2005.
• Pop Mercantilism? Staff and Student Attitudes in Economics at 糖心TV. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version: 21 November 2000.
• Why has Serbia not Collapsed Under NATO Bombing? Lessons from History and Economics. University of 糖心TV, Department of Economics. This version April 1999. Postscript: September 1999.
• Russia's Third Way. University of 糖心TV, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. This version: September 1998.
• Peter Wiles (1919-1997). This obituary, published in The Independent on July 31, 1997, was written by Philip Hanson and Mark Harrison
• Russia 1992: the Making of a Catastrophe. Planet: The Welsh Internationalist 92, April-May (1992), pp. 10-15.
• Ob ekonomicheskom roste do revoliutsii i posle nee [On economic growth before and after the revolution]. Kommunist no. 9 (1991), pp. 118-20.
• Global Warming and the Economy: When Green Turns to Grey. Arguments and Facts International 1:5/6 (1990), pp. 4-5.
• Making Soviet Markets Work. Pravda International 3:2 (1989), pp. 18-19.
• The Second Bombing of Coventry. 12pp. Coventry Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1980).
• Stalin -- a Centenary View. Marxism Today 23:10 (1979), pp. 21-26.
• The Economics of Capitalism (scanned original, 30Mb). 41pp. Communist Party Education Department (1976). Searchable version (4Mb).

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