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Thursday, 24 January 2019

The key arguments for high top rates of income tax are political as well as pecuniary

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When people complain that neoliberalism is a meaningless concept, I should point them to what has happened to the top rate of income tax s...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

The media, the market and truth

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I read with interest a recent article by Greg Mankiw about media bias (HT Mark Thoma). It discussed research by Gentzkow and Shapiro on t...
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Thursday, 23 May 2013

The Liquidity Trap and Macro Textbooks

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Over the last eleven days something unusual has happened – I have not only failed to post a blog of my own, but I have not even read anyon...
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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Macroeconomists: Scientists or Engineers?

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Some comments on my earlier posts discussing microfoundations have mentioned Mankiw’s well known paper on the macroeconomist as scientist...
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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Giving Economics a Bad Name

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Greg Mankiw is known to every economist and economics student, if only because of his best selling textbook. John Taylor is known to eve...
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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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