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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Wes Streeting told Sophy Ridge this morning that he had “Had it with the BMA” (British Medical Association) and that “An outbreak of juvenile delinquency”
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British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect.
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The suggestion has been made in response to posts that I have written here that if you are on the left, you are either on
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There are days when I genuinely wonder what parts of the left think the state is for. The capacity to create money is the most
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Rachel Reeves just gave us a masterclass in how NOT to run a budget. We got leaks, U-turns, political theatre, but almost no real economic
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Grace Blakeley has responded to my suggestion that she is wrong about  modern monetary theory (MMT), saying: Thanks Richard – this confirms my assumption that
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I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something
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Grace Blakeley has replied to what I wrote about why parts of the left oppose modern monetary theory. In doing so, she has reinforced every
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