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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Britain’s housing market has become a Ponzi scheme — built not on value, but on debt, illusion and exclusion. Successive governments have turned homes into
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This is the second in a new series that will be published daily during the rest of this week. The first quantum economics series and
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People know that the politicians they are now being presented with, most especially by Labour and the Tories, are, by and large, useless, without an
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A reader called Ellie Comber wrote this comment on the blog overnight: I admit to being very frightened that democracy will be annihilated and that
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Right-wing commentators claim inequality in Britain is falling. It isn’t. The Office for National Statistics says the Gini coefficient has improved — but the truth
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In 2011, I finally did something that I had been planning to do for many years: I wrote a book on economics that brought together
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This post arose out of a conversation between Jacqueline, my wife, and me yesterday, although the idea had been bouncing around for a few days
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I sat down with Zack Polanski yesterday, the new leader of the Green Party, for a fascinating discussion on economics and politics. This was my
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