The Ipsos MORI Issues Index for August 2021 shows public concern about the environment has jumped sixteen percentage points over last month’s Index. This could,
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Four questions to ask of any economic policy, following in the tradition of Adam Smith
One of the questions within economics is on whose behalf should it be assumed that a person acts, and with what motivation? The answer was
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There are economists for hire who will work on anti-social projects
As if to prove the relevance of what Danny Blanchflower and I are calling for in the Mile End Road Economists’ initiative, this academic journal
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Mile End Road Economists
I noted yesterday that Danny Blanchflower and I have formed a grouping that we are calling the Mile End Road economists. It’s just us right
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Why the last thing we’re going to need is interest rate rises
I have already mentioned this morning the concern that Danny Blanchflower and I share that so many economists appear incredibly keen that interest rates in the
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The launch of the Mile End Road Economists
As a result of exchanges with Prof Danny Blanchflower on Twitter yesterday the ‘Mile End Road Economists’ appear to have been created. The issue Danny
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The SNP – Greens Deal: is the devil in the exceptions?
As The National tweeted yesterday, referring to my column in their paper: It was long ago that I learned to look at what was not
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Gatwick airport plans to carry on as if the world is not burning all around us
It was a touch depressing to read this in the FT today: Gatwick airport is to push ahead with expansion despite the hit to the
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Why we don’t need to fear inflation
In this final video in a mini-series on how money has got its value in the fifty years since the final link between money and
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