I am not alone, I know, in despairing that Labour has apparently ruled out support for any tax increases this year when it would seem
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On air and on line: today is media Thursday
I have what appears to be a busy day. This is out first: https://twitter.com/alexsalmondshow/status/1364635961985011713?s=21 The programme is a half our interview partly timed to coincide with
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Why we don’t need to pay for Covid because we already have
I get really annoyed by all the economists going around saying that we have to work out how to pay for Covid when the simple fact is that
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Moving beyond the Sustainable Growth Commission – tomorrow
Tomorrow is the day of the Scottish Currency Group’s conference on moving on from the Sustainable Growth Commission, and all that is wrong with it:
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Poor theory, driving delusional thinking, is resulting in dire government decision making
It struck me overnight that there us at the heart of this government’s policy paradoxical and incoherent choice. Let’s assume there are just three big
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Breaking the austerity myth
I learned this morning that I podcast I recorded recently with Manda Scott for the Accidental Gods podcast series has been published. This comes from
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The economics of the real world
I used to teach a module with this title at City, University of Lindon. The students seemed to really enjoy it because in it we used data
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Thursday evening
The news on employment is depressing – and that’s before taking furlough into account
With Johnson announcing the economy will be open by the end of June my expectation is that Sunak will be rapidly unwinding furlough and other
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