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Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Why defeating Brexit is so important

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First we were accused of ‘Project Fear’, because we pointed out that making it more difficult to trade with countries next to you would hur...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Brexit and the Left

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There seem to be two strands of opinion which encourages people on the left to vote Leave. The first is an intense dislike of what has happ...
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Monday, 20 June 2016

More on Brexit and the politicisation of truth

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I watched the BBC’s early evening news on Saturday: not something I would normally do but for the football. (Unfortunately I cannot find a ...
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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Power without accountability in our tabloid press

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Even though I have been doing this for four and a half years, I still found it unnerving when, after typing ‘UK media bias EU’ into Google,...
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Friday, 17 June 2016

Postgrad teaching and Keynesian economics: a survey

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This post is joint with André Moreira, an economist at the Bank of England Three years ago one of us got into a discussion with Pau...
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Thursday, 16 June 2016

Brexit despair

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Among everyone and everything I read at the moment there is a mixture of disbelief and despair over the now distinct possibility that the U...
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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Defending George Osborne on Brexit once again

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When a good part of the electorate are in cloud cuckoo land, you may have to leave planet earth to talk to them. Economists are pret...
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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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