A couple of months ago, I noted that I had been approached by a major publisher who asked me to write a book. That one
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Is value destroyed when share prices fall?
A commenter on my recent blog post – Where does money go in a crash? – offered a reply from their vantage point as an
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We need a politics that meets needs
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or
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The wealth series: Do we need the wealthy?
We’re starting a new series on this channel: unpacking the myths around wealth. From who the wealthy are, how they got their money, to whether
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Benefits, the tax gap and a podcast
I did this podcast-style interview for The National in Scotland last Friday, talking about the economics of benefits and the tax gap, in particular: I
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The student politics in play on wealth taxation
I noticed this in the FT yesterday: Downing Street has declined to categorically rule out imposing a “wealth tax” on Britain’s richest people after former
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Universities never realised they were harbouring the ideology that now seeks to kill them
There’s a bitter irony at the heart of modern higher education, which too few universities, and even fewer of their leaders, seem willing to confront.
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You don’t have to be callous to be a neoliberal
The Tony Blair Institute, Labour and Gaza
I am aware that the FT is not keen on anyone quoting more than about 100 words of an article that they publish, but this
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