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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As readers here will be aware, I have been tackling those who are seeking to drive the Greens in what they might describe as a
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For 50 years, Western politics has rested on a single promise: growth. But what if that promise can no longer be kept? In this video,
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Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and
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For forty years we were told that Britain didn’t need manufacturing — finance would make us rich. That experiment has failed. We import more than
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As the New York Times notes in a mail this morning: The leaders of China, Russia and Japan won’t be there. Neither will the leaders
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I did this podcast with Xander Elliards of The National on Monday (and I wish they’d told me my lens was dirty: I had no
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Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of
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The UK is stuck in a self-inflicted fiscal trap. Larry Elliott, former Guardian Economics Editor and my co-author in the Green New Deal, joins me
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