Figures show that falls in exports and imports were smaller than most economists expected in September amid wider expectations that third quarter gross domestic product growth will exceed 9%

  The financial crisis: A year since America adopted the rescue plan first activated by Gordon Brown, his role in saving the world banking system is disputed by some but hailed by others

  The experience of the airline industry illustrates the phenomenon of regulatory capture – the tendency for regulators to see through the eyes of the industry they regulate, writes John Kay

  Recent figures have proved that the dollar's fall is a symptom of success, not of failure. All the same, the dollar-based global monetary system is defective. It would be good to start building alternative arrangements, writes Martin Wolf

  The big protest by workers after their summer break went almost without notice and now the heads of the two biggest trade unions say they have to do more

  Elinor Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the award, sharing it with Oliver Williamson for their work on how transactions operate outside markets in common spaces and and within companies

  Political reality is that a 'right to health' is a trump card to get more resources – and it is rarely the poor who play it most effectively, writes William Easterly

  The importance of fair value accounting to responsible systemic risk management is hard to overstate, writes Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs

  Carry trading is hot again but it will end in tears just like last time as exchange rates rebalance

  Talks could be concluded by the end of the year, according to Mohamed Thiam, the country's minister of mines, on billions of dollars of financing for infrastructure and minerals projects

  Latvia's decision to cling to its currency peg to the euro has at least bought time for other countries inthe region

  Economics cannot hope definitively to decide large swathes of the subject. The subject is blindingly complex, as well as relatively young, and much of the data incomplete and unreliable

  There has turned out to be a significant downside to having a global financial centre, but the industry can still facilitate growth

  Imagine a world with a small current account deficit in the US, a somewhat larger deficit in the eurozone and a not too excessive Asian surplus. In the long run, such a world would require significant reform of the monetary system. But in the short term, a fall in the dollar would help, writes Wolfgang Münchau