mainly macro

After the 2017 General Election, I wrote a post about how, whatever the Conservatives did next, they would make their position worse (a s...

In my recent post on the ‘biggest policy mistake of the last decade’, I emphasised the irrelevance of the academic consensus on austerity...

Neoliberalism is generally associated with extolling the market, encouraging globalisation and generally being on the side of business. As...

"The biggest policy mistake of the last decade" is the title of an article by Ryan Cooper, and the mistake is of course austeri...

Within a few months of Corbyn’s election, I wrote about what I called the anti-Corbynistas: a smallish group of Labour MPs and many in th...

One divide between mainstream and many heterodox economists is on whether monetary or fiscal policy should be used for macroeconomic stabi...

One of the unfortunate things that some Remain supporters can do is treat anyone who voted Leave as stupid. How could you vote for such an...