I have mentioned The Mint magazine’s ‘Not the Nobel’ economics prize before on this blog, and now there are finalists to choose from. They are:
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Only Andrea Leadsom could get almost everything about her Green New Deal spending wrong
Andrea Leadsom announced £1bn of extra government spending for the Green New Deal before the Tory party conference. The sum involved is one-fiftieth of that
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How to deliver greater wealth taxation in the UK
I have just shared a release from Tax Justice UK showing most in the UK want greater and more eq1uitable taxation of wealth in this
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People in the UK want wealth taxes
I share this press release from Tax Justice UK this morning, whose advisory board I serve on: Clear majority of British public support higher taxes
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The demand for tax spillover assessments
The World Bank and IMF backed Global Initiative for Financial Transparency coalition sent me their newsletter yesterday, which included this: The declaration they refer to
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Auditors are re-arranging the deckchairs
One of the great advantages of coming to end of my full-time at City, University of London, is that I’m beginning to get more time
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What if?
The latest opinion polls mapped by Flavible.com have these results: The ComRes poll, which shows the two leading parties equal (which may, of course, be
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The toxic stain of Johnson
I am revolted by Boris Johnson. I was disgusted. But that’s too good a term now. Revulsion will do. I stress that this is not
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MMT, tax, pensions, ISA funding and the Green New Deal
I noted some discussion on my Facebook page yesterday (to which I link my blog posts but otherwise pretty much ignore) on why I was
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