Author: Philip Lane

His analysis piece is here.

Part 4 of the FT series is here

The FT also has an editorial here

LBS writes about contagion here

The third article in the FT series is here.

Philippe Aghion has had a very influential academic career at Harvard; recently, he has been advising Francois Hollande and he explains the new presidents’s supply-side economic strategy in this FT article.

By the way,  the article also explains in passing:

Mr Hollande’s third main idea is that what is true for each individual country within the European Union is also true for the EU as a whole. In other words, the EU must pursue both budgetary discipline and a complementary growth package.

This applies even more to the eurozone. Foreign observers have been worrying about Mr Hollande’s use of the word “renegotiating” in relation to the European fiscal pact. However, to a large extent, the issue is semantic. His use of the word “renegotiate” refers more to the notion of combining the existing budgetary agreements with a growth package than to truly renegotiating the budgetary part of the project.

Part 2 of the FT series is here.