mainly macro

As I noted in my previous post , the very big government budget deficit in 2010 was largely the result of the recession. That fact is diffi...

Not part of the mediamacro myths series, but in a way related. Chris Giles has a recent FT article where he describes how non-Greek po...

The idea that the Coalition rescued Britain from a crisis is routinely put forward as fact by both the Conservatives and Nick Clegg. Every ...

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...

This is written for UK readers, who will know who all the parties are. However you do not need to know the details to get the main points. ...

Tim Harford in the FT talks to seven random mainstream economists about their radical ideas for economic policy. (Podcast, not pay walled, ...

I've mentioned before the coalition economics website , where the academic economists who analysed the Labour government's economi...