VoxEU recommendations to G20 summit published: Read it Swan!

Following on from VoxEU’s great book for the recent G7/8 summit (which I reviewed here, is available for browsing as HTML and PDF) comes their dummies guide analysis of issues facing the G20 summit on 2008-11-15: "What G20 leaders must do to stabilise our economy and fix the financial system"

The new effort is available for browsing individual papers here or as a downloadable PDF.

As before, the recommendations aren’t unanimous – with two papers putting arguments for a new Bretton Woods, and one opposed.

Two of the four key points in the consensus wrapper are as follows:

• Start thinking outside the box about longer term reforms.
• Above all, do no harm.

(Yeah, well, both of those are tricky things for populist politicians!)

One of the papers (written by a former IMF Chief Economist) has among other things, a recommendation I doubt will be even discussed:

Older parents, epigenomics and psychiatric illness

Nature’s British Journal of Pharmacology has (for free!) an editorial that is getting my nose twitching, and pushes me to speed up a Balneus post that has been brewing for a while.  The growing literature on the diseases of children caused by advanced parental age suggests that the societal pattern of people building their careers before having children needs to be reviewed by social policy makers.

The LEaglet has landed

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Mother and eaglets are all looking happy.