' The international economy finds itself in a kind of limbo. between the familiar regime that we know from the past. and an uncertain future replacement.'
Professor Fred Hirsch. Department of International Studies at the University of Warwick. considers a recent Chatham House study. International Economic Relations of the Western World 1959-71, and asks: just what is involved in the task of managing an international economic order on a truly collective basis?
(19 July: The Art of Economics) followed by an interlude