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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Two paths to controlling COVID with vaccinations

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  As vaccination is rolled out across advanced economies, the main danger has become mutations of the virus, or variants. We all know about ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

COVID-19, experts and the media

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  On February 4th, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an editorial which suggested that the actions of most government’s in mishan...
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Monday, 8 February 2021

Media radicalisation in the US and UK

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  Perhaps many people outside the United States do not realise how dangerous the attack on the United States Capitol was. The views from out...
Monday, 1 February 2021

Why vaccines alone are not enough, how the UK government could mess things up again and which European country will eliminate COVID first?

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  Why has the UK government decided to apply serious travel restrictions to incomers because of COVID now, almost a year after the pandemic ...
Monday, 25 January 2021

The two sides of austerity.

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  I thought I’d use the FT’s mea culpa on austerity to make a point which is easily missed in public debate. Sustained austerity of the kin...
Monday, 18 January 2021

Who caused our current COVID crisis: an example of public deception by the media and government

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  Let me start with what the public thinks: It is a straightforward question and the majority of the public give a clear answer. Unf...
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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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