Thursday, 16 March 2017

Will May face down those who want no deal?

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In which I find a silver lining around the current weak state of the Labour party The negotiations between the UK and EU that will take...
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Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Brexit makes the economics of Scottish independence much more attractive

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There is a slightly later and extended version of this post, which may also be a little clearer, at the New Statesman here . It is diffic...
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Monday, 13 March 2017

Does free movement really enable a low wage economy?

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Tom Kibasi writes “Immigration is such an important issue precisely because free movement of labour is the crucial enabler of the low ski...
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Sunday, 12 March 2017

International GDP per capita comparisons

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As I have noted before, it is one of the great ironies of UK politics that recent growth only looks respectable because of immigration. Bec...
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Friday, 10 March 2017

The Output Gap and the Innovations Gap

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A major objection to my suggestion that the UK is in an self-fulfilling expectations led recession is that measures of the output gap sugg...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Budget Day Nonsense

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For the last several budgets/autumn statements I have agreed to write an immediate response for some media outlet, and have therefore felt ...
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Monday, 6 March 2017

Why it’s your bloody GDP, not ours

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Why does the recovery mediamacro constantly talk about seem not to apply to most people? Aditya Chakrabortty tells the story behind my tit...
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