The ‘next trading system’
A series of tweets prompted by the empty argument and specious results of the December, 2017, WTO Ministerial meeting. Eventually, this must end. ...
Free trade (not agreements) will make Britain great
To judge from most of the “progressive” press and my Twitter feed, there is a great deal of ruin in Brexit. I hear that Britain is so integrated into the E...
Trade blocs world
We will soon see the creation of the first global-scale trade-blocs: exclusive international trade zones. What will it be like? The short answer (if you w...
Framing jpeg images for Flickr
This is an Applescript I wrote a couple of years ago to resize and frame Jpeg images exported from Photoshop (for example) for Flickr. The script relies o...
Save PDF annotations to a notes file
If you are a researcher then you probably annotate PDFs of papers and other stuff. If, like me, you work in the Apple/OSX environment you may be using Ski...
Draft history of ICC: final chapters
Last year, I completed the manuscript of a centennial history of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). It’s a long work: 400 pages, more or...
The Wallenbergs at the ICC
Peter Wallenberg, the scion of the great Swedish family of bankers and industrialists, died on 19 January aged 88. Among his many achievements wa...