The Nobel Prize Committee has posted this on Twitter (X): So here are my questions: Has technological growth run its course, then, as growth clearly
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The second Christmas book – our MMT guide
I have, over the last couple of days, said on at least a couple of occasions that our new book, The Best of the Blog
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Dull brown content
James Meadway, the carpet-bagging economist who served as chief economic adviser to John McDonnell during the Corbyn era in the Labour Party, and who is
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The changing political landscpe
The FT has reported: The Labour party has lost about 100,000 members since last year’s general election, underscoring the dramatic fall in Sir Keir Starmer’s
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The Best of the Blog 2025: the Introduction
The first of our two planned books for Christmas was published yesterday. It was the Best of the Blog 2025. The book is a 200-page
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Big company chief executives don’t create value – they extract it
Chief executives in the UK and the US are now paid hundreds of times more than the people who actually create value in their companies.
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We really are living in dangerous times
I was talking to a friend about my post on Donald Trump, and his attack on European civilisation, made earlier today. The thought that kept
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Starmer is the NHS’s problem
The Guardian notes this morning that: Keir Starmer has said it is “frankly beyond belief” that resident doctors would strike during the NHS’s worst moment
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Economic questions: the William Beveridge question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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