The FT has just published a comment on recent market moves saying: An investor consensus that took months to build, namely that robust economic growth
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How tax can shape society if we understand modern monetary theory
I mentioned yesterday that Prof Andrew Baker, a colleague at the University of Sheffield, and I had won an award for our academic journal paper
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The government is acting with total contempt, for the state, the instruments of government and the people of this country
As The Guardian notes in an editorial this morning: The purpose of the state is freedom,” the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza wrote. Its aim is
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The Tories have no love for Johnson
I share this tweet, and most especially the photo in it of an article in The Times, which can be clicked on and expanded to
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The post-Covid boom is already over: now we’re waiting for the downturn
As the FT has noted this morning: A top Federal Reserve official has warned the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant and low vaccination rates
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Award wining modern monetary theory
I am pleased to note that Prof Andrew Baker of Sheffield University and I were today awarded the Cambridge University Press Award for Excellence in
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The RNLI should not be accepting government assurance s on asylum seekers: it should be standing up for the rights of all who save life at sea
The blog post I wrote yesterday on the risk to the RNLI from the new Bill on asylum got a lot of attention on Twitter
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The government’s policy of mass infection is not a viable or acceptable policy
I noted this tweet from Prof Christina Pagel this morning: We just published a letter in the Lancet signed by over 100 scientists explaining why
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NGOs want audit reform
A group of NGOs and academics has ve signed a joint declaration. for audit reform. I have done so for the Corporate Accountability Network, which
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