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Monday, 2 October 2017

Why is MMT so popular?

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I think, as a result of earlier posts, that I can be pretty confident that I can answer this question. But first some background. Although ...
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017

A Labour run on Sterling?

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The news that John McDonnell was looking at a scenario where the election of a Labour government was met with a run on Sterling was all ove...
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon

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The news that Tfl, the regulatory body for transport in London, had banned Uber because of regulatory failures brought out the usual suspec...
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Saturday, 23 September 2017

The real obstacle for the Brexit negotiations

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I’m not going to say anything about the content of yesterday’s speech: I talked about the likelihood of a transition arrangement that invo...
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Thursday, 21 September 2017

Productivity and monetary policy

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The Bank are warning of imminent rises in interest rates. As Chris Giles points out, we have been here before, and before that, but that s...
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017

Undergraduate economics teaching moves into 21st century

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The CORE economics curriculum, designed to provide an introduction to economics that reflects economics as it is today rather than as it wa...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

Problems with triangulating over immigration

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I have talked before about why triangulation over austerity did not work for Labour, but why triangulation over Brexit seems to be more su...
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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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