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Showing posts with label myth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label myth. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Time to rewrite a bit of oral history

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I have written at great length about the myth that the Labour government created the need for austerity, or as George Osborne likes to put ...
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Monday, 20 April 2015

UK mediamacro myths: an introduction

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I’ve written an article for the New Statesman entitled “Covering up the austerity mistake”. The first half is about the nature of the mist...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

The mythical debt crisis

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A constant refrain, from both the Conservative and LibDem party conferences, is how the current government saved the country from a crisis....
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Sunday, 23 June 2013

Fiscal legacies and competence

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I’m afraid this is more on Labour’s fiscal record, and the myth that this created a huge mess that current Labour leaders should apologise ...
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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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