I spoke at a meeting of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation last week. It was a pretty unpleasant experience, surrounded by those
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Small business tax
The Office for tax Simplification is undertaking a review of small business taxation. I have submitted to them an updated version of a paper I
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The Archbishop of Canterbury: right to be worried
The Independent notes: Plans to make the long-term unemployed do unpaid manual labour for their benefits could push vulnerable people into a "downward spiral of
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OMG – we’re back to the gold standard
As the FT has noted, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has called for the re-establishment of the gold standard.Admittedly, this is not the
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Fairy tales don’t make for an economic policy
George Irvin, professor emeritus at SOAS and a co-author of mine, has written a great article for the Guardian’s Comment is Free on the myths
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