Bridget releases report on the economic impact of High Speed Rail
Volterra’s senior partner Bridget Rosewell recently produced a report with Oxford University’s Tony Venables on the impact of new railway investments in the UK, in particular HS2. The paper looks at how to assess the potential benefits of higher speed and higher capacity connection between cities by rail. Much of the formal appraisal of HS2 to date […]
New frontiers in privatisation
Volterra Partner Paul Ormerod recently spoke at an Institute for Economic Affairs conference in Slovenia on New Frontiers in Privatisation. The delegates from countries in the former Soviet bloc were particularly enthusiastic! His talk was on ‘Evolutionary Approaches to Privatisation’ and can be found here. The political economy of further privatisation raises issues which are of fundamental importance for […]
Nick and the ‘wider western front’
In other news, and in a brief deviation from economics, Volterra associate Nick Bosanquet has recently turned historian in a new book about World War 1 that focuses on the ‘wider western front’ and how the war impacted on home territory. In ‘Our Land at War’ Nick traces the main UK sites that affected the war effort, and […]
Bridget and the TESTRAD Consortium introduce London Britannia Airport
Volterra’s senior partner Bridget Rosewell formed TESTRAD to research the infrastructure potential of the Estuary and has worked with a number of experts to develop the ideas for an airport based there. This scheme has been merged with that of global architectural design firm Gensler and the TESTRAD Consortium has responded to the call from the Airports Commission with plans for […]
Discovering how HS2 will unlock economic development potential
Volterra is working with a number of partners to help realise the potential of High Speed 2 outside London. We have previously done research to show that HS2 is as much about capacity as about speed, and as much about jobs as about time saving. We are continuing to develop these ideas with some of the cities […]
Paul ‘airs’ his ideas on Positive Linking
Volterra partner Paul Ormerod was recently interviewed by Peter Day on his ‘Global Business’ programme for the BBC World Service. The programme centres around the question: ‘What on earth is wrong with economics?’; Paul airs his views as to the limitations of how conventional economics is taught and documented and goes on to describe some of […]
Follow Paul in CityAM
For a year now, every Wednesday Paul has a column in the successful CityAM newspaper. He covers a wide range of topics, such as: the underlying similarity of Andy Murray’s Wimbledon victory and economic recession (here); why we should be optimistic about long-term economic growth (here); why HS2 is worth it (here); a field guide to economists: the recovery denier […]
Bridget appointed OBE
The 2013 Birthday Honours list has brought good news to Volterra with Senior Partner Bridget Rosewell being appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the economy. Congratulations Bridget!
London Finance Commission report on the future of ‘funding’ the capital
Last year we announced that Bridget Rosewell was to sit on the panel for the London Finance Commission – an initiative of Boris Johnson – which looked at ways of ensuring that fiscal responsibility could be increased for London and investment support. The commission met on a monthly basis from July 2012 to April 2013 […]
Paul speaks web psychology
OgilvyChange, the specialist behavioural sciences practice of Ogilvy & Mather UK, hosted Nudgestock, the UK’s largest gathering of behavioural sciences experts on Friday 24th May at Shoreditch Town Hall. Volterra partner Paul Ormerod discussed the psychology behind the decisions individuals make alongside some of the leading behavioural scientists, award winning authors and personalities from the creative advertising […]
