mainly macro

Comment on macroeconomic issues

Showing posts with label 364. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 364. Show all posts
Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Governments of fools?

›
Dominic Raab was widely mocked for his remarks about only recently understanding the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing (I defy any...
4 comments:
Saturday, 26 May 2018

Delegation as a reaction to the politicisation of advice

›
In my last post I used the example of Brexit to show that politicians, even when their ideas are seen as seriously harmful by most expert...
2 comments:
Monday, 5 February 2018

Academic knowledge about economic policy is not just another opinion

›
Does the financial crisis reveal that economists are at the leeches and mercury stage of their subject, and as a result policy makers and ...
15 comments:
Friday, 21 July 2017

The politics of ignoring knowledge

›
Simon Tilford has a post where he explores the roots of Brexit in a kind of UK exceptionalism. He argues that “the underlying reason [for ...
26 comments:
Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Economic Competence Revisited

›
My last post was designed to show clearly that the UK has not been a strong economy since the Conservatives started running it. Now I would...
24 comments:
Wednesday, 21 December 2016

When is an economic recovery not a recovery?

›
This post may seem to be unusually pedantic, but please be patient What do we mean when we say the economy is recovering from a reces...
18 comments:
›
Home
View web version

Simon Wren-Lewis

My photo
Mainly Macro
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.