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Showing posts with label borrowing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label borrowing. Show all posts
Monday, 14 March 2016

Does public investment have to pay for itself?

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A key distinction between Labour’s new fiscal rule and Osborne’s fiscal charter is that the former allows borrowing for investment. When s...
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Friday, 11 March 2016

A (much) better fiscal rule

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Today the Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell will give a speech where he puts forward an alternative fiscal rule to George Osborne’s...
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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Bringing economics back into fiscal policymaking

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Today around the world the dominant framework for making fiscal policy decisions is personal finance for the overextended household. The st...
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Sunday, 6 January 2013

Avoiding the B word

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As I briefly listened to the radio the other morning, I heard the new head of the TUC (Trades Union Congress) talking about macr...
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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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