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Tuesday, 28 January 2020

How business lost its influence on right wing parties

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This covers ground which others may be more knowledgeable about, so please let me know of any references or sources that I really should r...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Evidence and the persistence of mistaken ideas: the case of house prices

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Another paper , this time from the Bank of England written by former MPC member David Miles and Victoria Monro, shows that the rise in hou...
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Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Monetary and fiscal cooperation: the case for a state dependent assignment

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In December last year Mark Carney said “In a global liquidity trap, central banks cannot be the only policy makers who do “whatever it t...
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Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Was the Remain campaign always doomed?

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In hindsight it is tempting to say that Remainers should have set their sights on something close to a BINO type deal (UK remaining part o...
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Friday, 20 December 2019

Can we think about politics from Blair onwards in one chart? and what it means for Blue Labour

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This is an experiment. You can judge how successful it is. I am trying it because with this election there has been a lot of talk about a ...
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Friday, 13 December 2019

Who to blame for Johnson winning?

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When I wrote this in July I desperately wanted to be wrong. (Of course I was wrong about a lot of the details but alas not the main point...
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Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Why you should vote tactically, and how to do it.

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In this election we have a choice. We can choose a party led by an inveterate liar, which is happy to appeal to the racist or xenophobic v...
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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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