Friday, 16 December 2016

Why populism should be no surprise

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As well as watching and listening to my SPERI/New Statesman prize lecture, you can now read it in the form of a SPERI paper (slightly mo...
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Thursday, 15 December 2016

What are populist policies?

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Populist is a term like neoliberalism: vaguely defined and used as a derogatory term. A key aspect of populism involves attacks against eli...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Reactionary Keynesianism

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Under Donald Trump we might get what some have called Reactionary Keynesianism. But a stimulus is a stimulus, right, and for those of us wh...
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Saturday, 10 December 2016

The public analyst in crazy times

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My eldest granddaughter about a year ago went through that stage where she was always asking why. Now her favourite question is ‘what’s hap...
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Thursday, 8 December 2016

The reporting of market ups and downs is not really a joke

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It began as part of my undergraduate lectures. After teaching students about the key role of expectations in influencing exchange rate move...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

The OBR and the impact of Brexit

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In doing my homework for an appearance at the Treasury Select Committee this morning, I noticed one point which is of some relevance to the...
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Saturday, 3 December 2016

Hitting back

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Not a post about a certain byelection , but a reaction to  reading this: “A more serious incident was the forecast by the Office for Bud...
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