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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

The benefit cap: more media driving policy

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Yesterday I talked about how the media, and the right wing tabloid press in particular, plays a major role in determining not only governm...
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Monday, 7 November 2016

Freedom of Movement, Austerity, Labour and MPs votes on Brexit

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In three important ways Labour’s current attitude to Freedom of Movement reminds me of their pre-Corbyn attitude to austerity. First, Labou...
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Saturday, 5 November 2016

Public investment and fiscal rules

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When I started writing this paper with Jonathan Portes, I was genuinely unclear about whether fiscal targets should be for the total defic...
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Thursday, 3 November 2016

Ann Pettifor on mainstream economics

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Ann has a article that talks about the underlying factor behind the Brexit vote. Her thesis, that it represents the discontent of those le...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Is austerity to blame for Brexit?

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Mark Blyth writes “Strip away all the electoral politics at the moment in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Spain and elsewhere, and that's ...
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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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