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George Magnus

Economist and Author

George Magnus

Economist and Author

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George Magnus

George Magnus

George Magnus is an independent economist and commentator, an Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, and an adviser to some asset management companies.

He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Prospect Magazine and other written media, and appears regularly on BBC TV and radio, Bloomberg TV and other outlets.

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"George Magnus does not look like a prophet. Yet this is the man widely acknowledged to have predicted that the US sub-prime mortgage crisis would trigger a global recession."

- Josephine Moulds, The Daily Telegraph

George Magnus's Viewpoints Blog

  • Common prosperity: more slogan than solution
  • Whither China’s investment in the UK
  • Whatever RCEP is, it’s not the answer to the slump in world trade
  • Ofcom, CGTN and BBC row, the latest nail in Britain’s golden era coffin with China
  • It’s ok to call the Chinese Communist Party to account

Latest Articles

  • Western companies stand in the crosshairs of China’s new reality

    Foreign firms in China are facing an increasingly awkward political and regulatory environment Read more →

  • The High Costs of Disengagement for China

    In this new era of strategic competition between China and the West, disengagement is the order of the day. While this trend will impede economic growth, increase business costs, and raise prices for everyone, the economy that loses the most may well be China’s. Read more →

  • How the West got China so catastrophically wrong

    Fifty years of encouraging closer economic links with Beijing has proved misguided Read more →

  • Sinostan and the Sino-Russian axis

    China has opted at least for now to make its bed with Putin. But at some point, Chinese policymakers will have to weigh its politics-versus-economics contradiction more carefully, and may come to see Putin as a fly in the ointment of their own interests and ambition. Read more →

  • China’s ‘Two Sessions’ paper over cracks in a troubled economy

    The ‘Two Sessions’ held in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in April sought to guarantee a smooth glide path towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 20th Party Congress, scheduled for later this year. But instability rules almost everywhere.... Read more →

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