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Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gordon Brown. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 December 2017

The politicisation of immigration

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This is based on the UK experience, but I think some of this will also apply in the US. Why do right wing politicians push an anti-im...
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Monday, 22 August 2016

New Labour and neoliberalism

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Anyone who talks about New Labour as being a “disciple of neoliberalism” really should define what they mean by neoliberal. One of the def...
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Friday, 19 June 2015

Where Labour went wrong

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When the New Statesman asked me to write something on Osborne’s budget surplus law, they also suggested I talk about what Labour’s attitud...
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Monday, 20 August 2012

Facts and Spin about Fiscal Policy under Gordon Brown

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Below is a chart of UK net debt to GDP from the mid 1970s until the onset of the Great Depression. This post is about the right hand third...
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Saturday, 12 May 2012

Is it all Gordon Brown’s fault?

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                Someone reading my recent post on major UK macro policy errors asked whether my blog was becoming more political. I hope ...
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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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