mainly macro

Anyone can claim to be an expert nowadays. How do we tell real experts from fake experts, and what does that even mean? And even with real...

When I write about what I call mediamacro , which includes bad reporting of macroeconomic issues by the media, I often receive comments sug...

I had not heard this corruption of ‘ evidence based policy making ’ until I read this post by John Springford discussing the Gerard Lyons ...

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...

A reflection on rereading an old paper Regular readers will have noticed that I’m not a great fan of the current government’s economic ...

The Luddites were 19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labour-saving machinery from 1811 to 1817. A...

Something odd but familiar was going on when I wrote this post on Labour’s economic record. The Labour leader and shadow chancellor both m...