I have two slots on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning, both recorded late last week. I have just listened to the first,
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What the strategic state might look like
Jeremy Corbyn’s opinion piece in the Observer today starts: To succeed, we need to build shared economic growth. This government is failing to reform the
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Economic extremism
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the association that has been made between me and Corbynomics I welcome this letter in today’s Observer: The accusation is widely made that
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Tax doesn’t harm growth
I have borrowed the following italicised text from the Tax Justice Network blog, because it’s well worth sharing, as is the rest of the blog
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Saturday thought: the macroeconomics we need
Three conversations I had yesterday suggested I need to clarify my approach to macro-economics. One was withColin Hines, the co-ordinator of the Green New Deal group.
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Godwin’s Law of Economics
For those not familiar with Godwin’s Law it says: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”
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The Telegraph is deeply confused
The Telegraph is deeply confused about People’s QE. In an article out this morning it notes: Economists warned that [PQE] would have disastrous consequences. Tony
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Corbynomics may be the only plan in town that can manage the China crisis
Larry Elliott said in the Guardian this morning that: Clouds are massing over the global economy and if the storm breaks, Corbynomics would fit the
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Why Larry Elliott missed the point
My friend and occasional Green New Deal colleague Larry Elliott has an article in the Guardian today in which he says: Jeremy Corbyn has the vision,
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