mainly macro

The news that Tfl, the regulatory body for transport in London, had banned Uber because of regulatory failures brought out the usual suspec...

In a couple of interesting posts , Jonathan Hopkin and Ben Rosamond, political scientists from the LSE and Copenhagen respectively, talk a...

When you just know something is true, like fiscal policy never matters much and NGDP targeting would have avoided the Great Recession, ever...

Paul Krugman says Keynes is slowly winning. Tyler Cowen says no, there is lots of evidence Keynes is still losing. If this strikes you as...

It was entirely predictable . Once growth returned to the UK economy, those with a political axe to grind, but also some who do not, and ev...

Tyler Cowen points us to a nice paper by Emmanuel Farhi and Ivan Werning on multipliers. The authors had been good enough to send me a ...

Tyler Cowen and Nick Rowe both make some good points on the use (or misuse) of cyclically adjusted budget deficits. However there is a ...

There has been some recent debate about whether UK austerity is responsible for the poor performance of the UK economy (which remains poor...