why Mathias Cormann's leadership of the OECD has economists worried
- Written by Steve Keen, Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL
In June 2007, Jean-Philippe Cotis, the chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, declared that 2008 was going to be a great year.
The economic situation was “better than what we have experienced in years”, he wrote, and the central forecast of the OECD, representing the world’s 38 wealthiest...