Friday, 16 August 2019

How should academic economics cope with ideological bias

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This question was prompted by this study  by  Mohsen Javdani and Ha-Joon Chang,  which tries to show two things: mainstream economists are...
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Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Will we get No Deal because Brexiters want it more?

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“The reason we might have a no-deal Brexit in Britain is because its advocates want it more than their enemies want to stop it. They are m...
Friday, 9 August 2019

The Remainers urging people to vote for a No Deal Brexit

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You might think the title above is nonsense: how can a Remainers vote for No Deal? I would have agreed with you a month ago. But since the...
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Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Does Brexit represent an alliance of Rentiers?

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One of the striking features of Brexit is that it is harmful to most productive capital and those who work with it: the capital embodied i...
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Saturday, 3 August 2019

Fiscal tightening in UK recessions: 1981 and 2010 compared

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I have decided to abstain from twitter conversations to protect my own wellbeing, but I made an exception for Andrew Sentance recently. Th...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

There is no mandate for No Deal

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We are told constantly that the 2016 referendum gives our government a mandate for a No Deal Brexit, and that we would not respect democra...
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Friday, 26 July 2019

When Boris Johnson won the 2019 General Election

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in November, many people were shocked. How could someone who had been free with racist slurs towards many minority groups, who had arrange...
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