Saturday, 23 September 2017

The real obstacle for the Brexit negotiations

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I’m not going to say anything about the content of yesterday’s speech: I talked about the likelihood of a transition arrangement that invo...
Thursday, 21 September 2017

Productivity and monetary policy

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The Bank are warning of imminent rises in interest rates. As Chris Giles points out, we have been here before, and before that, but that s...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017

Undergraduate economics teaching moves into 21st century

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The CORE economics curriculum, designed to provide an introduction to economics that reflects economics as it is today rather than as it wa...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

Problems with triangulating over immigration

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I have talked before about why triangulation over austerity did not work for Labour, but why triangulation over Brexit seems to be more su...
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Thursday, 14 September 2017

Economists show how Fox news changes votes

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As I have noted before, economists are getting into media studies (we are natural imperialists) and beginning to provide empirical evidence...
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Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Revolutions in Economic Policy

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The Commission on Economic Justice hosted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has just published a substantial and comprehen...
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Saturday, 9 September 2017

Cherry picking economic statistics and Project Fear

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It is often said that the left-right description of politics is not a straight line but a circle, with left and right becoming more similar...
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