mainly macro

A long read on why it is time the rest of the media stopped treating Fox as TV news, and some UK tabloids as newspapers. George Osborne...

Politicians can be adept at co-opting attractive sounding terms to their own cause, even when they distort their meaning while doing so. Os...

There is a simple way to read George Osborne’s budgets. Forget the economics, and just think politics. Take the macroeconomics of aggre...

Tim Harford in the FT talks to seven random mainstream economists about their radical ideas for economic policy. (Podcast, not pay walled, ...

Let me first deal with a potential conflict of interest. Tim has a wide twitter following, and quite often tweets a reference to my blo...