mainly macro

Comment on macroeconomic issues

Saturday, 3 August 2019

Fiscal tightening in UK recessions: 1981 and 2010 compared

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I have decided to abstain from twitter conversations to protect my own wellbeing, but I made an exception for Andrew Sentance recently. Th...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2019

There is no mandate for No Deal

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We are told constantly that the 2016 referendum gives our government a mandate for a No Deal Brexit, and that we would not respect democra...
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Friday, 26 July 2019

When Boris Johnson won the 2019 General Election

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in November, many people were shocked. How could someone who had been free with racist slurs towards many minority groups, who had arrange...
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019

How the lessons from austerity have not been learned

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The UK and the Eurozone are both vulnerable to the next recession, but both politicians and central bankers think each other should deal w...
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Friday, 19 July 2019

Reaction to “There is only one alternative to Prime Minister Boris Johnson”

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I anticipated that my last post would not be popular in many circles. I want to respond to some of the common themes from the responses in...
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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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