This is a fantastic research piece by Jim O’Neill and his team at Goldman Sachs. Published in November - the BRICs and Beyond book is available in pdf format and can be downloaded from here. Jim O’Neill gave a brilliant talk to our Economics Society last night, he will worth going a long way to hear. I am delighted that I will be touching base with him again at our third annual Economics Teachers Conference at the London Stock Exchange on Friday 27th June. Details of the speaker rosta are shown below:

Speaker line-up:

Tim Harford -The Undercover Economist - “The Logic of Life” Harriet Lamb - CEO of the Fairtrade Foundation - “Economics of Fair Trade” Jim O’Neill - Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs - “A BRIC revolution” Gerard Lyons - Chief Economist of Standard Chartered - “Prospects for the World Economy” Karen Ward - Chief UK Economist, HSBC “Where next for the UK Economy?”