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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Friday, 1 March 2019

Parliament’s Brexit Game: has anything changed?

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The PM’s only chance of getting her deal through by the end of March was to have No Deal as the inevitable and only alternative. Parliamen...
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Tuesday, 26 February 2019

We need a political party that is tough on the causes of Brexit

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I fully share the anguish of so many people over the madness of Brexit. All the evidence points to not leaving the EU, and the reasons gi...
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Friday, 22 February 2019

The new party: lessons the Labour leadership and its supporters failed to learn

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I know it is a cliché but too many supporters of the Labour leadership, and perhaps the leadership itself, seem to have forgotten it. Labo...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

How to pay for the Green New Deal

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The Green New Deal has recently been promoted by a group of Democrats including the inspirational Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . I fir...
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Friday, 15 February 2019

The Tory party lost its way from 2010, not 2016

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“I have had it up to here with the Conservative party.” So writes a one time editor of the Spectator, Matthew d'Ancona. It is a good ...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

The economic cost of the Brexit decision that Leaver voters do not get to see

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Those promoting Brexit are fond of saying that it’s not about economics. Gary Younge in the Guardian tells us that there is nothing wrong...
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Friday, 8 February 2019

The Media and the Public

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If you take note of the growing evidence that the partisan media can influence public opinion rather than simply reflect it, then th...
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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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