mainly macro

Anything that says economics is in crisis always gets a lot of attention, particularly after Brexit (because economists are so pessimistic ...

Is there a macroeconomic case for tax cuts in the United States right now? Paul Krugman and I say no, using the following logic. The Fed ...

Unless something very surprising happens, the French presidential election will be between Marine Le Pen of the Front National and François...

In Tony Blair’s recent intervention on Brexit, I kept expecting to read “we need to be tough on immigration, and tough on the causes of im...

I wrote my original post on this to counter the idea that the size of any increase in the deficit was at least as important as its composi...

Before the Christmas break David Blanchflower asked me a question on twitter: “why do you think we have seen the move to right-wing rather ...

This post may seem to be unusually pedantic, but please be patient What do we mean when we say the economy is recovering from a reces...