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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

UK decline and stylised empirical facts

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  It is beyond dispute that the UK economy is suffering from a second lost decade, by which I mean a sustained period of poor or non-existen...
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

Capital and Right Wing Populism

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  If it gets into power right wing populism typically does great damage to the economy. The systematic evidence is here , and we have too ma...
Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Should the government compensate consumers for cost of living shocks?

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  G overnments around the world are cutting taxes on petrol or fuel, including in Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada. The UK government has c...
Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Orbán, Trump and the International Right Wing Populist Movement

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  If you doubted that right wing populism is an international movement, then the turnout of support for Victor Orbán  and his party Fidesz  ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Taxation as Insurance, Welfare and Entitlements

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  A rather abstract discussion which leads to a very specific conclusion about the merger of income tax and employee national insurance cont...
Tuesday, 31 March 2026

The damage that right wing populists do

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  History, and events today, tell us the damage that fascism can do. Right wing populism is a milder form of fascism. Right wing populism is...
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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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