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Tuesday, 1 November 2022

It makes no economic sense to keep shrinking the state without changing what the state is meant to do.

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  Since Chancellor Hunt cancelled his predecessor’s cancelling of the rise in corporation tax and postponed indefinitely the cut in income t...
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Monday, 24 October 2022

The UK Treasury since 1976

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  Fed up with the Conservative Party’s current psychodrama? This could be a useful distraction. Aeron Davis has a new book out that is a 4...
Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Why it is crucial to understand why financial markets move, rather than worry about the role of markets in aiding the downfall of a Chancellor and Prime Minister

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  Introduction The media sometimes uses a financial crisis in much the same way as religious leaders might have once used natural disast...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

The self-destructive political right

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  Forecasting which political party will win the next election three or more years out, much like economic forecasts of what growth or infla...
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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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