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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Stock-Flow Consistent models: response to Jo Michell

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Jo has a thoughtful and constructive response to my post discussing a recent Bank of England paper that presents a new Stock-Flow Consis...
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Saturday, 10 September 2016

The UK goes back to the 1950s

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I have always felt that the British were slightly obsessed by anniversaries, particularly if it involves anything to do with the two world ...
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Friday, 9 September 2016

Voters making big mistakes

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In the last year we will have seen three occasions where large numbers of people voted in ways that seem to fly in the face of expert advic...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Labour elections: a response to Chris Dillow

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Chris Dillow’s post today is so concise, comprehensive and in my view largely correct that I cannot help responding to it. The case ...
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Connecting the dots

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John Harris has an excellent article in the Guardian, listing the number of politicians in the UK and EU who have retired to lucrative job...
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Monday, 5 September 2016

Why does anyone listen to Nigel Lawson?

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The Financial Times let’s him write an op-ed which extols the benefits of a quick and hard Brexit. The reason they published it is presuma...
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Sunday, 4 September 2016

Fiscal rules and MMT

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What I call the ‘consensus assignment’ in modern macroeconomics is that monetary policy keeps output stable at a level that leaves inflati...
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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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