Monday, 28 September 2020

Sunak and most Tory MPs do not understand the economics/health trade-off, and many people will die as a result

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  It is well known and generally accepted that despite warnings from China, Italy and elsewhere, the UK government were late in imposing a l...
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

Why neoliberalism can end in autocratic, populist and incompetent plutocracy

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  Is it a coincidence that the two countries that first championed neoliberalism (under Thatcher and Reagan), should end up with autocratic,...
Monday, 14 September 2020

Whether its COVID or Brexit, this government is continuing to fail terribly at everything it does. Will Conservative MPs do anything about it?

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Testing failure So for many visits to grandparents are off. No one should dispute that the government needed to do something after a sharp ...
Wednesday, 9 September 2020

In the UK Treasury cutting the deficit generally takes priority over the health of the economy

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The UK Treasury bears some responsibility for the disaster of 2010 austerity, yet it has not accepted or understood the mistake it made. As ...
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Will taxes have to rise?

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That is the question addressed in this debate between Jonathan Portes and Bill Mitchell. I found the discussion very frustrating, because ...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020

The political economy and psychology of COVID rebounds

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You can call it a second wave, or a resurgence of the first wave. But whatever you call it we are seeing in some European countries a steady...
Tuesday, 21 July 2020

The reality behind fiscal scare stories, or mediamacro is alive and well

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If you listen to the broadcast media, you will have almost certainly picked up the message that at some point in the near future the Chanc...