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Comment on macroeconomic issues

Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Attitudes towards redistribution

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  This book by Charlotte Cavaill é  is forthcoming, so this post is based on this excellent podcast , which is well worth an hour or so of ...
Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Wage inflation, unemployment and what you wish to believe

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  Two weeks ago I described how the UK’s inflation problem has now become about labour market strength and private sector wage inflation. E...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Economics and neoliberalism

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  In an idle moment I was reading through the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, as one does, I came across this paragraph from Kevin Vall...
Tuesday, 8 August 2023

What the United States might tell us about UK inflation

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  If you wanted to be optimistic about UK inflation and interest rates, then at first sight looking at the US might help. Here is inflation ...
Tuesday, 1 August 2023

The Farage-Coutts affair exemplifies the bankruptcy of UK media and politics

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  Failed politician [1] loses account at exclusive bank. It’s a story with very minor human interest, and of no importance whatsoever. Yet i...
Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Labour Tax and Spend is a question of when, not if

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  It’s the second leg of a cup tie. Your team you support lost badly in the first leg, but in this match their opponents made a series of hu...
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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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