Politicians tell us taxes pay for public services. In reality, it does something far more important — it shapes our society. In this video, I
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The economics of the Mile End Road in The Guardian
My colleague, Danny Blanchflower, has an article in the Guardian today on some of the ideas that we are putting forward with regard to economic
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The Mile End Road on other people’s channels
Danny Blanchflower and I have been on other people’s YouTube channels. This was Danny on Owen Jones’ channel yesterday: I also noted that Polotics Joe
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Reforming the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committe: the view from the Mile End Road
I have mentioned in another blog the work Danny Blanchflower and I are proposing to do now. Amongst those things, we are discussing writing a
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Economics for the person on the Mile End Road
I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that economics always seems to be written from the perspective of the City of
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The return of the Mile End Road economists
Danny Blanchflower and I had a discussion today, with both of us noting that we’ve been in demand from the media. I did the Jeremy
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The return of the Mile End Road economists
As I noted in June, I was very surprised that my old friend Danny Blanchflower had signed a letter to the Guardian by a range of
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There is a vacuum in our politics. Who will fill it?
As some readers will know, Danny Blanchflower and I (he, at one time of the Bank of England monetary policy committee) have sometimes referred to
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Ben Bernanke’s review of the Bank of England was doomed from the outset because he didn’t ask the right questions
There has been lots of comment in the media on the criticisms that former chair of the US Federal Reserve and economics Nobel prize winner,
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