I said I would be spending time thinking and that I would be revisiting my hastily written 2011 book, The Courageous State, when doing so.
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I am finding it difficult to write. The US and Iran are at war again, but we knew that was going to happen. I had
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Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson
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The Financial Times asked whether the global economy can survive another shock. I think it’s the question of our time. Debt, war and climate change
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In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State, which was a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice. Fourteen years later, we still
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In 2011, I finally did something that I had been planning to do for many years: I wrote a book on economics that brought together
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In this morning’s YouTube video, I note that Keir Starmer has said the Labour Party’s goal is to increase wealth, which, given the structure of
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Clive Parry wrote in the comments on this blog yesterday that: We need to reverse the line argument “We can only have public services if
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I was challenged in a comment yesterday on whether the Green New Deal was radical on issues relating to consumption. My response was to refer
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