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Saturday, 7 April 2018

How do you access unbiased expertise: follow the money?

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Anyone can claim to be an expert nowadays. How do we tell real experts from fake experts, and what does that even mean? And even with real...
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Brexit and Corbyn: how our media fails the people

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For every academic economist that thought Brexit would benefit the economy, 22 thought the opposite. That is as near as unanimous as you a...
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Sunday, 1 April 2018

The media and Attitudes to Austerity

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One of the important features of austerity introduced into the UK from 2010 onwards, at a point when the economy had not shown any signif...
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Thursday, 29 March 2018

Is Trump about race and Brexit about culture?

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The initial reaction to the Trump victory was to look at the Rust Belt states that swung the result to Trump, and as a result to talk abo...
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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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