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Tuesday, 27 January 2026

How Liberal Democratic Countries will cooperate without the US

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  I sometimes get things right and sometimes wrong, but I cannot remember one of my posts being proved right within two days of publication....
Tuesday, 20 January 2026

Greenland

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  There is no doubt that Trump wants to be able to say that he and the United States ‘owns’ Greenland. This has nothing to do with US strat...
Tuesday, 13 January 2026

A Post Neoliberal Consensus

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  . Dani Rodrik recently wrote an article entitled “The Post-Neoliberal Consensus is here”. He argues that it comprises th...
Tuesday, 6 January 2026

What kind of crisis would a bursting AI bubble become?

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  In this post I’m not going to speculate about whether the current boom in AI infrastructure (mainly data centres, mainly in the US) is a b...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Understanding the rise of the populist far right

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  This is a follow-up to last week’s post. Occasionally I receive comments on social media that point me to academic analysis that I wasn’t ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK

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  I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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