mainly macro

Why does society no longer blame immigrants for spreading disease? It used to. The Jews were blamed for the Black Death, and Irish immigran...

Duncan Weldon asks whatever happened to deficit bias, and why was austerity so popular when it seems to hurt two crucial groups of electo...

We have already begun to hear laments that Corbyn’s second victory means the end of Labour as a broad church. This is nonsense, unless that...

This post has its genesis in a short twitter exchange storified by Brad DeLong DSGE models, the models that mainstream macroeconomi...

In the last few months I have sometimes been told that the last Labour government did nothing to reverse the rise of inequality seen under ...

Matthew Bishop has a nice simple post at SPERI suggesting how the ‘economy is like a household’ idea can be tackled. He is correct that th...

I pointed out two days ago that the real costs of Brexit are long term, which unfortunately means that those who argued for Brexit will ne...