mainly macro

Because the advice of economists is so hopeless, you may say. Well think about the following thought experiment. After the financial crisis...

When David Vines asked me to contribute to a OXREP (Oxford Review of Economic Policy) issue on “Rebuilding Macroeconomic Theory”, I think ...

Alan Manning has a very good article in Foreign Affairs about minimum wages. The impact of minimum wages on employment is a politically ch...

I argued at the end of last year that immigration was an attractive issue for the right, because it offered the possibility of capturing v...

but mainstream economists should make sure they are getting a hearing It is tempting to laugh at the rhetoric of Conservative politic...

Jacob Rees-Mogg is apparently the bookies favourite to succeed Theresa May. It is the same Rees-Mogg who has declared the UK would become a...

This is based on the UK experience, but I think some of this will also apply in the US. Why do right wing politicians push an anti-im...