mainly macro

Comment on macroeconomic issues

Friday, 5 September 2014

Utopianism and Scottish Independence

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In case any of you thought that yesterday’s post seemed way too speculative and a bit too ' lefty ' (I think it was just - admitted...
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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Class interests

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This is a small contribution to answering Paul Krugman’s question about why the wealthy want to raise interest rates, even when the econom...
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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Dreams of autonomy

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The latest poll results suggest a Yes vote for Scottish independence is a distinct possibility In one sense Nigel Farage (leader of U...
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Simplistic theories of inflation

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After I wrote this I saw that Frances Coppola has a post that covers some of the same ground, but the point I want to make is different. ...
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Monday, 1 September 2014

Labour's austerity problem

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One of the political/economic soap operas over the last year has been the UK Labour Party’s agonising over the perception of its economic c...
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Saturday, 30 August 2014

The ECB and the Bundesbank

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There can be no doubt that some of the responsibility for the current Eurozone recession has to be laid at the feet of the ECB. Some of tha...
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Friday, 29 August 2014

Eurozone delusions

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I have already had a number of interesting comments on my previous post which illustrate how confused the Eurozone macroeconomic debate ha...
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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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